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You can take the drug in the form of a capsule, tablet, chewable tablet, or liquid. Like all medications, amoxicillin can cause side effects, including: nausea. vomiting. diarrhea. changes in ...
I'm taking amoxicillin as a prevention for infecition. When I read the offical package instructions about the drug it said it has 2 hours half-life, but in your "box" it says 1 hour. Please someone verify either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.85.132.67 17:46, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Amoxicillin is in the β-lactam family of antibiotics. [9] Amoxicillin was discovered in 1958 and came into medical use in 1972. [12] [13] Amoxil was approved for medical use in the United States in 1974, [4] [5] and in the United Kingdom in 1977. [2] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [14]
[2] [3] It may be accompanied by abdominal cramps, nausea, fever, headache and bloating. [3] Occasionally dysentery may occur. [5] Most travelers recover within three to four days with little or no treatment. [3] About 12% of people may have symptoms for a week. [3]
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“People can still be exposed to germs during the time it takes for chlorine to kill the germs.” The diarrhea-causing parasite, cryptosporidium, “is harder to kill,” Lum adds.
In addition, penicillin is available in different forms. There are different penicillin medications (penicillin G benzathine, penicillin G potassium, Penicillin G sodium, penicillin G procaine, and penicillin V) [3] as well as a number of β-lactam antibiotics derived from penicillin (e.g. amoxicillin).
In 2014, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported about 6,000 exposures to chlorine gas in the US in 2013, compared with 13,600 exposures to carbon monoxide, which was the most common poison gas exposure; [7] the year before they reported about 5,500 cases of chlorine gas poisoning compared with around 14,300 cases of carbon ...