Omnicef dose? Is this too much?

[tantrums]

DS was put on 300mg caps (hope he can swallow!) - 2 a day. He is only 48 inches and 46 pounds.

 

Does that dose sound okay?

[Kayanne]

DS was put on 300mg caps (hope he can swallow!) - 2 a day. He is only 48 inches and 46 pounds.

 

Does that dose sound okay?

 

 

The website below says that for adults and teens over 13 maximum dosage is 600mg every 24 hours or 300 mg twice a day.

 

For kids 6mos to 12 yrs dosing should be based on weight 7mg per kg twice a day or double every 24 hours

 

46lbs = 20.865 kg (I use an online converter)

 

20.865 x 7mg = 146mg of omnicef twice a day. I have no idea if when deciding what dose to give with medication, doctors would round up or down, but based on this it seems 150mg twice a day or 300mg once a day is the correct dose.

 

http://www.rxlist.com/omnicef-drug.htm

 

a call into your doctor or pharmacist may be in order...this might not be wrong, your doc could just be very aggressive. Last year, my daughter was prescribed the high end dose for adults of clindamycin (she was about 42lbs) because she had a strep infection that didn't respond to four other antibiotics.

 

This past Feb, my daughter was about 48lbs and one of her peds prescribed 150mg of omnicef 2x/day for 10 days. She said for strep, she likes to break the dose up to twice a day. Also she said the normal dose should have been 125mg 2x/day...so in our case the ped rounded up. She is still taking this.