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Cefpodoxime

Cefpodoxime

Spectrum Of Activity

General Information

  • Acute otitis media
  • Bronchitis, chronic, acute bacterial
  • Community-acquired pneumonia
  • Gonorrhea
  • Infection of skin and/or subcutaneous tissue, uncomplicated
  • Pharyngitis
  • Tonsillitis
  • Urinary tract infectious disease, uncomplicated

Monitor fever, symptomatic improvement, CBC, and hepatic and renal functions.

Check for previous hypersensitivity to other beta-lactam antibiotics.

Monitor signs of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, and of serum-sickness-like reactions.

Common

  • Rash
  • Diarrhea
  • Nausea

Serious

  • Stevens-Johnson syndrome
  • Toxic epidermal necrolysis
  • Clostridium difficile colitis
  • Warfarin- increased risk of bleeding
  • Cholera vaccine, live
  • Oral contraceptives

Antimicrobial class: 3rd Generation Cephalosporin

Pregnancy category: B

Average serum half life: 2.5 hours

Urine penetration: Therapeutic

Lung penetration: Therapeutic

Precautions:
Use with caution in patients with history of gastrointestinal disease, especially colitis, and hypersensitivity to penicillins.