Omnicef dosage feedback

[adkmom]

Anyone with experience with Omnicef (Cednifir) dosage for toddlers? Wondering if pandas typically requires higher dosage? My ds4 has been on it for 1 week, does well then 1/2 way through the day all the symptoms seem to worsen. He's on the standard 250mg, 1 tsp 2x day.

 

Is this the typical strength?

[Priscilla]

Anyone with experience with Omnicef (Cednifir) dosage for toddlers? Wondering if pandas typically requires higher dosage? My ds4 has been on it for 1 week, does well then 1/2 way through the day all the symptoms seem to worsen. He's on the standard 250mg, 1 tsp 2x day.

 

Is this the typical strength?

 

 

my dd8 started on this, started to notice a big difference after about 10 days. Unfortunately, after about 2 mos (and trying to wean 2 x) it lost effectiveness. It may have been from us trying to wean though. I did see a post from a mom that said when they were nearing the end of the bottle, symptoms would ramp (other moms said it too)I think the stability is not so good, and you have to get it refilled every 10 days, makes is kind of a hard one to stay on really long term. We changed t Augmentin XR, but my dd is older.

[adkmom]

Anyone with experience with Omnicef (Cednifir) dosage for toddlers? Wondering if pandas typically requires higher dosage? My ds4 has been on it for 1 week, does well then 1/2 way through the day all the symptoms seem to worsen. He's on the standard 250mg, 1 tsp 2x day.

 

Is this the typical strength?

 

 

my dd8 started on this, started to notice a big difference after about 10 days. Unfortunately, after about 2 mos (and trying to wean 2 x) it lost effectiveness. It may have been from us trying to wean though. I did see a post from a mom that said when they were nearing the end of the bottle, symptoms would ramp (other moms said it too)I think the stability is not so good, and you have to get it refilled every 10 days, makes is kind of a hard one to stay on really long term. We changed t Augmentin XR, but my dd is older.

[adkmom]

Thanks Priscilla. It seemed to be getting better then in the afternoons, behavior started up. And some tics although not as bad as when he was on Augmentin. It's like he needs a higher dose or to take it more frequently.

[Kayanne]

Anyone with experience with Omnicef (Cednifir) dosage for toddlers? Wondering if pandas typically requires higher dosage? My ds4 has been on it for 1 week, does well then 1/2 way through the day all the symptoms seem to worsen. He's on the standard 250mg, 1 tsp 2x day.

 

Is this the typical strength?

My 7yr old was about 47lbs (she dropped from 50lbs in about 3 weeks) when one of our peds put her on 150mg of Omnicef 2x day. We only noticed steady improvements until we tried amoxicillin...after a week we switched back to Omnicef, and she took that dose for about 5 mos. Now she takes 150mg 1x day as a prophylaxis.

 

Look on the side of your Omnicef bottle if it is 250mg/5ml, then your son is getting a total of 500mg daily.

 

If it says 125mg/5ml, then your son is getting 250mg daily.

 

It all depends on your son's weight, but I would think a total of 250mg is about right or a little on the high side (which IMHO for PANDAS is okay)