The dose is 250 mg three times a day for ten days. Incomplete dose may land up in rheumatic fever.
what dosage of tetracycline for strep throat
cefprozil is a type of anti-boitic therefore if you have strep throat you might be given cefprozil OR regular anti-biotics, but they are both as effective.
You can treat strep throat with (rocephin) ceftriaxone. But this is third generation cephalosporin and is considered as one from higher antibiotic category. This is almost never indicated for strep throat. You can treat strep throat with tablet penicillin 250 mg three times a day. You can give 500 mg or even 1000 mg three times a day, if you feel like giving higher dose. Strep throat almost always respond to penicillin.
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I am pretty sure that you are contagious for 24 hours after your first dose.
You do not use ciprofloxacin to treat the strep throat. Penicillin is better and economical.
For ten days. He is declared as cured after last dose of penicillin.
Promethazine isnt' used to treat strep. Go back to the drawing board and get a new plan.
The most important thing is to take the penicillin tablets three times a day for complete ten days, as per advice of your physician. Rest of the things are treated symptomatically by your physician. You need not worry about the strep throat, once you complete the course.
Refer to this link http://cid-d021de92b4bdb09f.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D021DE92B4BDB09F!258.entry which posted by Thai pharmacist. He state that "roxythomycin" is the medicine in the same group of erythomycin and they were use in organic of upper respiratory system.
It is sometimes a choice doctors will use to treat strep if drugs such as the Z Pak have not yielded results. Ideally you need to have a throat culture taken to determine whether it is a bacterial or viral infection. Antibiotics won't cure a viral sore throat; time will.
Most of the patients recover from strep throat with in three days. Some of them become carrier of streptococcus pyogenes in there throat. Few of such carriers gets, rheumatic fever. So in case of rheumatic fever, almost always, you are able to isolate the streptococcus pyogenes, from the throat of the patient. ASO titre is also raised to indicate the recent infection. You can declare the patient as cured, when he has received the last dose of penicillin V on tenth day.