CEFDINIR vs CEFEPIME

I posted last week but I didn’t get a response so I deleted it. My 14 month old daughter had a 103 fever for a week, pediatrician started her on cefdinir and her fever dropped. She became extremely lethargic and slept for 3 days/nights straight, only waking when I’d wake her up to try to eat, fallin

Female, 23, smoker, 200lbs, 5'3", cefdinir So approximately 3 days ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with the most awful ear pain in my life, so bad I went straight to the ER. They looked in my ear, saw what looked to be a lady bug, and got to work. Step 1 was lidocaine and wait, and then th

35F, 5’6”, 190 lbs, only taking levothyroxine and prenatal (edited to add that I use Dupixent for CRSwNP). History of AERD, multiple sinus surgeries for recurrent nasal polyps, and currently pregnant (28 weeks). Sulfa and Aspirin/NSAID allergy. I’ve had a sinus infection for about a year, and have b

You’re a retail pharmacist. Your tech just called out. You’re working alone and the queue is horrendously backed up because of the previous floaters ineptitude. You have 7 waiters, 3 of which are flu shots, 2 are cefdinir reconstitutions, 1 is a rosuvastatin script, and 1 is an addict waiting for hi

I want to hear your best patient interactions where you wanted laugh and cry at the same time. I'll start. I had a patient calling to ask if his medication for cefdinir that he picked up was causing his sore throat. He had been using it for 3 days and his throat keeps getting worse. I told him it do

This seems like an interesting pharmacy controversy. We have an aux sticker that goes on the bottle that says "DO NOT REFRIGERATE" but the sticker was put on the box instead of the bottle and the parents took the bottle home and threw it straight in the fridge. They called this morning and I as

Yesterday I had a lady drop off a prescription for cefdinir and told me she is allergic to amoxicillin. I asked her what her allergy to amoxicillin was, and she told me that her throat closed up so obviously I ran right over to the pharmacist and asked her to call the doctor to try to get it changed

Hi r/pharmacy, I just started at a new pharmacy and was about to flavor some cefdinir (using Flavorx) for a patient and one of my pharmacists let me know that she had come across a CE in the past saying that cefdinir should not be flavored due to stability issues. Unfortunately, we were unable to lo

Bill has not been paid. BCBS has also not reimbursed us for any care in 90 days. We’re about to go full hunger games for Zosyn and cefepime. How do I get this to have as much news coverage as a bunch of tik tok stars striking in Minnesota?

69M My dad is critically ill — the hospital keeps changing his diagnosis and refusing to document what’s actually happening. I don’t know what else to do. My dad has Addison’s disease, a rare autoimmune condition that makes him extremely vulnerable to stress and infection. He is considered malnouris

I’ve noticed that even if someone has anaphylaxis to penicillin, they will get a cephalosporin and be fine on it (cefepime for example because it has low cross reactivity?). Are 3rd and 4th generation a good alternative to suggest for anaphylaxis to penicillin? Or should I go with a carbapenem (I.e.

Patient put on IV Cefepime empirically 2/2 fever, congestion, leukocytosis. Tested positive for Influenza A. Pharmacist asked MD to dc antibiotics since...patient has the flu.. MD started Tamiflu and wants to keep IV cefepime to “prevent secondary pneumonia” -insert pikachu face-

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Background 32F, Caucasian, No drug or alcohol use, immunocompromised patient with POTS, Lupus and CVID. Meds include metoprolol, augmentin, oxycodone, Abilify, trazodone, clonidine, plaquenil In a nutshell, I had an infected port a cath removed 2 days ago and am reaching out because I have symptom

You have a patient with confirmed C. Diff with symptoms and positive PCR. Precious chemo. Central line in place. ANC 400 Previous admission for kleb bacteremia. Pt is febrile and clinically stable. Team adds oral vanc, IV vanc and cefepime. Questions: 1. Cultures still arent back in 48 hours, pt st

Hello all of you lovely people! I'm just tossing this out there and need insight. In the world of cephalosporins, I know that Keflex and Rocephin are different gens. If a person's culture shows a resistance to cefazolin but was prescribed Keflex. Will the Keflex cover the organism? The organism is