CEFDINIR vs CEFTRIAXONE

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

[My original post is here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskDocs/comments/1aqmzfy/5_year_old_has_had_a_high_fever_for_6_days_i_am/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) It is now February 28th, and we are finally being discharged from th

Surgical intern here. I feel like I call my pharmacists an ungodly amount of times a day, and wanted to know if maybe I was missing some basic knowledge (or basic ways to get to that knowledge). My hospital has Micromedex for free, so I'll always try to give it a cursory glance or Google quickly bef

15 y/o healthy male, UTD vaccinations, NKDA, no medications. 5'8", 125 lbs. Was waiting for the school bus (very early so still partially dark outside) and neighbor pulled quickly into her driveway. She ran over him with front tire, he was wedged under and drug 20 feet until the back tire ran him ov

FINAL UPDATE: after his final IV antibiotics appointment today we met with an awesome doctor. Essentially he said that when we first went into the ER to get him looked at the other doctor fucked up by not draining the hematoma or whatever it is on the front of his leg and he probably has phlebitis.

I had this situation come up the other day, and was curious how other people would/have handle(d) it. This is specifically regarding a vanco consult, but I’m also curious about other types! I got one the other day that was clearly not indicated. Without going into too much detail, basically this pat

Good afternoon. Kind of a long story. I am 26F with no drug or alcohol use. Five foot three inches tall and weigh 194 lbs. Daily medications include corlanor (IST), buspirone (anxiety), singulair (allergies), qulipta (migraines), and cymbalta (anxiety). I carry an albuterol inhaler and an epi pen. O

A patient is on ceftriaxone 1 gm q24h for pneumonia, and the sputum culture comes back with a bacteria sensitive to both ceftriaxone and cefazolin. Assuming normal renal function, when would you start the cefazolin? When the next dose of ceftriaxone is due or start cefazolin immediately? Technicall

Reading the instructions for Ceftriaxone 500mg/vial, the vial states: For IM administration- “reconstitute with 1ml 1% lidocaine or sterile water. Each 1ml of solution contains approximately 350mg equivalent of ceftriaxone”. For IV administration- “reconstitute with 4.8ml of an IV diluent... for eac