This document summarizes information about the drug amoxicillin, including its generic and brand names, dosage, mechanism of action, side effects, nursing interventions, indications, contraindications, and references. Amoxicillin is an anti-infective drug given three times daily for 7 days to treat various bacterial infections via preventing bacterial cell wall synthesis. Common side effects include vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Nurses should advise patients and families on proper administration and monitoring for adverse reactions or signs of superinfection.
This document summarizes information about the drug amoxicillin, including its generic and brand names, dosage, mechanism of action, side effects, nursing interventions, indications, contraindications, and references. Amoxicillin is an anti-infective drug given three times daily for 7 days to treat various bacterial infections via preventing bacterial cell wall synthesis. Common side effects include vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Nurses should advise patients and families on proper administration and monitoring for adverse reactions or signs of superinfection.
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This document summarizes information about the drug amoxicillin, including its generic and brand names, dosage, mechanism of action, side effects, nursing interventions, indications, contraindications, and references. Amoxicillin is an anti-infective drug given three times daily for 7 days to treat various bacterial infections via preventing bacterial cell wall synthesis. Common side effects include vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Nurses should advise patients and families on proper administration and monitoring for adverse reactions or signs of superinfection.
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Generic Name Dosage Mechanism of Action Side Effects Nursing Interventions
Vomiting Advise the patient’s family amoxicillin 2.5 ml Prevents bacterial cell wall synthesis Nausea to take the medication with during replication. Bactericidal . Abdominal pain meals for better absorption Diarrhea & to reduce GI discomfort. Instruct the patient’s family to take medication as Brand Name Timing Adverse Reactions prescribed even after feeling Nausea better and not to double Amoxil A 2.5 ml is given TID Vomiting dose. for 7 days. Diarrhea Teach the patient’s family to Rash report sore throat, bruising, Pruritus bleeding and joint pain, this Urticaria may indicate blood dyscrasias. Drug Indications Contraindications Advise patient’s family to Classification References: watch out for perineal Hypersensitivity to penicillins, itching, fever, malaise, Anti-infective Treatment of infection of PPD’s Drug Hand Book for cephalosparins, or imipenem. redness, pain, swelling, Drug respiratory tract, skin & Professionals and Nursing Students, 2nd Not used to treat severe drainage, rash, diarrhea, skin structures, Edition, page 80. pneumonia, empyema, change in cough, sputum or genitourinary tract, otitis bacteremia, pericarditis, furry tongue, this may media, meningitis, *http://www.mims.com/Page.aspx? meningitis and purulent or indicate superinfection. septicemia, sinusitis, menuid=mng&name=Amoxil+cap&h= septic arthritis during acute Advise patient’s family to bacterial endocarditis amoxicillin,amoxil&CTRY=PH&searc stage . report bloody, mucoid prophylaxis. hstring=amoxicillin+amoxil diarrhea which may indicate (Retrieved last December 2, 2009) pseudomembranous colitis.