Cloxacillin Macure
Cloxacillin Macure is an antibiotic that stops bacteria from growing, used to treat serious infections like skin infections, heart infections, bone infections, and blood poisoning.
How to Use
Dosage
For adults, 0.5-1 gram is given into a muscle four times a day, or 1-2 grams into a vein three to four times a day, or 2 grams as a short drip into a vein four to six times a day. For children, the dose depends on their weight: 50 mg per kg of body weight per day, divided into 4 doses, given into a muscle, or 100 mg per kg of body weight per day (or more), divided into 4-6 doses, given into a vein.
Method
A doctor or nurse will give you this medicine as an injection into a muscle or vein, or as a drip into a vein.
The most you can usually get in a day is 6 grams as a continuous drip into a vein; for very serious infections, this can be increased up to 12 grams per day.
Possible Side Effects
- •Swelling and pain in a blood vessel (thrombophlebitis).
- •Feeling sick (nausea), diarrhea.
- •Skin rash.
- •More white blood cells than usual in your blood.
- •Itchy, raised red patches on the skin (hives).
- •Severe swelling in your large intestine (colon).
- •Fewer white blood cells than usual in your blood.
- •Low number of platelets, which can make you bleed or bruise more easily.
- •Problems with your liver.
- •Problems with your kidneys.
- •Fungal infections in your mouth and stomach.
Important Warnings
- Do not take this medicine if you are allergic to cloxacillin, other penicillin medicines, or cephalosporin medicines (which are similar antibiotics).
- Tell your doctor if you have kidney problems.
- Tell your doctor if you have or get diarrhea.