ACYCLOVIR vs VALACYCLOVIR

Specs: 23M, 140lb 6’1”, no drinking, no drugs, no previous health conditions Negative Covid tests and vaxxed Hey All, I’ll try to keep this short, but here is the deal. Since early highschool my energy levels have always been low, my body has generally felt quite sluggish. I always just attributed t

I shouldn’t have to put acyclovir in quotes to search for it and not get a bunch of unrelated results. Vanco and APAP aren’t even close in spelling or class

***EDIT 03/21/18:*** *I'm adding this to the top of the post because my original post is so damn long. Every now and then a redditor will reach out asking for an update and it's times like these I recognize what an awesome community we have here on this site.* *For any wondering how it turned out.

For locational context, my (20M) sister (18F, probably around 5'8" and 170 pounds, doesn't smoke or drink, hasn't traveled outside of the country recently except for Nova Scotia, Canada many months back) and I both live far from my parents as we’re in school, but she lives further than I do and in a

Virologist here, just trying to better understand antivirals. I’m wondering if anyone can elaborate on the differences between acyclovir and ganciclovir. I know that the latter has an additional hydroxymethyl group, and I’ve read that ganciclovir is most active against CMV (but does have activity ag

Today I got an order for acyclovir suspension for a 30kg 6 year old with chickenpox. The PA initially ordered 80mg QID. When I called to say that was a very low dose (should be 20mg/kg/dose) she refused to listen about this dose being too low. When I asked to speak to her supervising physician she f

Had a provider call and explain that she had a patient with genital herpes who was having a possible allergy to Acyclovir. From what I can gather from Clinical Pharmacology, all of the antivirals are structurally related and pretty much all oral options are contraindicated (Famciclovir, Valacyclovir

So he asked for acyclovir in tabs. I'm done 😕

Please forgive me if this violates the rules of the sub (I don't think it does after reading the sidebar). What's the deal with povidone in oral medications? It seems so ubiquitous and it makes prescribing for patients with an allergy quite difficult. As an example, I cared for a patient with a he