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Penicillin In Strep Treatment
My mother got penicillin from her dental surgery a week ago. She's stopped taking it, and is fine now, but now I have strep. She told me that strep is treated with penicillin and told me to take one of the pills every 12 hours until the packet is all used up. I'm wondering if that will take care of my strep.
Sun, 4 Apr 2010
Anonymous's Response
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Penicillin has been the drug of choice for treatment of streptococcal pharyngitis
Most patients with streptococcal pharyngitis are well within 2 to 3 days after penicillin treatment is initiated.
d dose of oral penicillin is
Oral: 250-500 mg every 6 hours
I.M., I.V.: 250-500 mg every 6 hours
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