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Need Medication For Cold And Fever
Hai doctor...my chiid have fever since 2days,she is sleeping too much,congested throat also....she is 3 yrs old,15 kg weight..female...toady i met one doctor ,advice to her to do urine analysis ,cbc and esr...the result was okey for esr...but in the urine we found out that presence of 5-7 pus cell .....in the cbc result is showing that neutrophills is 73%...so the doctor suggested to start cefixime 600mg od for 5 days...doctors...my worry is that this medication is need for her or not? becauses last month also she took amoxicilline....give me answer please...
Fri, 25 Apr 2014
Hallo .Thank you for posting your question . Report suggestive of infection . You can give antibiotic but 600 mg is too much . Dose is 8mg/kg/day . Hope I have answered your query .If you have any furthur questions I will be happy to help .
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