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USES: This medication is a cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections.
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Cefzil
Uses
This medication is a cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections.
Notes
- This medication has been prescribed for your current condition only.
- Do not use it later for another infection or give it to someone else.
- A different medication may be necessary.
Storage
- Store tablets at room temperature between 59 and 86 degrees F (between 15 and 30 degrees C) away from moisture and sunlight.
- Do not store in the bathroom.
- Liquid suspensions should be stored in the refrigerator but not the freezer.
- Check the expiration date and discard any unused medication after that date.
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How To Use
- This medication is taken by mouth.
- To prevent stomach upset, it may be taken with food or milk.
- The liquid form of this medication should shaken well before pouring each dose.
- Antibiotics work best when the amount of medicine in your body is kept at a constant level.
- Do this by taking the medication at evenly spaced intervals throughout the day and night.
- Continue to take this medication until the full prescribed amount is finished even if symptoms disappear after a few days.
- Stopping the medication too early may allow bacteria to continue to grow resulting in a relapse of the infection.
Side Effects
- This medication may cause stomach upset, diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting.
- Take with food or milk to minimize these effects.
- If these effects continue or become severe, inform your doctor.
- Other side effects reported with this medication include headache, dizziness, fatigue, muscle aches and strange taste in the mouth.
- Inform your doctor if any of these effects occur.
- Unlikely to occur but report a fever, easy bleeding or bruising or a change in the amount of urine.
- Notify your doctor immediately if an allergic reaction occurs while taking this medication.
- Symptoms include difficulty breathing, skin rash, hives, itching.
- If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
Precautions
- Tell your doctor of any allergies you have especially to penicillins or cephalosporin antibiotics, other antibiotics, tartrazine or other medications.
- Tell your doctor if you have a history of kidney disease, colitis or stomach problems.
- Use of this medication for prolonged or repeated periods may result in a secondary infection (e.g., oral, bladder or vaginal yeast infection).
- Tell your doctor if you are pregnant before using this drug.
- This drug is excreted into breast-milk.
- Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Missed Dose
- If you should miss a dose, take it as soon as remembered unless it is almost time for the next dose.
- If it is nearly time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule.
- Do not "double-up" the dose.
Drug Interactions
- Tell your doctor of any over-the-counter or prescription medication you may take including probenecid (for gout), anticoagulants (blood thinners) or other antibiotics.
- This drug may interfere with the effectiveness of birth control pills.
- Discuss using other methods of birth control with your doctor.
- Diabetics should be aware that this medication may cause false positive urine glucose tests.
- Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about other ways to monitor your blood glucose.
- Do not start or stop any medicine without doctor or pharmacist approval.
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Age: 6
Time Taken:
6 days
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| Reason: Celulitis |
Date:
12 January 2007 |
Side Effects
Severe Vomiting, and diareah. Vomiting upto 8 times a day, and BM upto 10 times a day. Loss of appitite for 3 days after stopping the med.
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My son was on cefzil because he had celulitis. As if celulitis was not scary enough, he had problems with the medication. As we were going into day 4 of taking it, he woke up at 4:30am, 5:30am, 6:30am, and then again at 8:30am vomiting severely, to the point of dry heaves. That day when he awoke, he vomited some more and then diareah started. This was a Sunday, he kept doing this until Tuesday, when I finally said FORGET IT, and took him off of it. The Doctor said that since his celulitis was improved, that he did not need anymore treatment unless it came back. I will NEVER put one of my children on this drug again. EVER. It also made him loose his appitite the whole time upto 3 days after. THE SYMPTOMS STOPPED AFTER I SKIPPED THE NEXT DOSE. INSTANTLY.
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CONDITIONS OF USE: The information in this database is intended to supplement, not substitute for, the expertise and judgement of healthcare professionals. The information is not intended to cover all possible uses, directions, precautions, drug interactions or adverse effects, nor should it be construed to indicate that use of a particular drug is safe, appropriate or effective for you or anyone else. A healthcare professional should be consulted before taking any drug, changing any diet or commencing or discontinuing any course of treatment.
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