Benzylpenicillin Fresenius Kabi
This antibiotic helps treat various bacterial infections in adults, teenagers, children, newborns, and premature babies by killing specific bacteria.
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor or nurse will give you this medicine. The dose depends on your age, weight, and the type of infection. For adults, it's usually 0.6-3 grams daily, given 4-6 times. For severe infections, up to 24 grams daily. For children, the dose is based on body weight and given multiple times a day.
Method
This medicine is given as a shot into a muscle or as a drip (infusion) into a vein, usually lasting 30-60 minutes. For babies, it's better to give it into a vein if possible to avoid strong reactions.
For adults with severe infections, the maximum daily dose can be up to 24 grams. For muscle injections, the maximum dose for one injection site is 6 grams per day.
Possible Side Effects
- •Changes in lab test results.
- •Allergic reactions, including skin rash, itching, hives, swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or throat, and trouble breathing or chest tightness.
- •Fever, joint pain, sore mouth, black hairy tongue, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea (which can be severe and bloody).
- •Problems with body salts (electrolytes) if the medicine is given too fast or in high doses.
- •Nerve problems like seizures, especially if you have kidney problems, epilepsy, or swelling in the brain.
- •Kidney problems, such as blood or protein in your urine, less urine, or difficulty urinating.
- •Changes in blood cells (like more of certain white blood cells or fewer red or white blood cells) or bleeding disorders.
- •Liver inflammation or reduced bile flow from the gallbladder.
- •Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (sudden fever, chills, rash, headache, muscle and joint pain, tiredness) which can happen when treating certain infections.
- •Brain problems (metabolic encephalopathy) with seizures and unconsciousness.
- •Severe local reactions, pain, or swelling at the injection site, especially if given into a muscle in babies.
Important Warnings
- Do not use this medicine if you are allergic to benzylpenicillin or any other penicillin. Do not use if you have had a severe allergic reaction to penicillin or similar antibiotics before (like skin rash, itching, fever, trouble breathing, or low blood pressure). This could be life-threatening.
- Tell your doctor if you have heart problems, serious changes in your body's salts (like potassium), liver or kidney problems, epilepsy, fluid in your brain, or meningitis. This medicine can increase your risk of seizures.
- Tell your doctor if you have glandular fever (mononucleosis), certain white blood cell cancers, or a fungal skin infection, as you might get more skin reactions.
- If you get severe, lasting diarrhea during treatment, tell your doctor right away. This could be a sign of colon inflammation.
- If the medicine is given into a vein too quickly, you could have seizures.