translated from Spanish: Errors of use and hypersensitivity to amoxicillin

No drug or pharmaceutical product is harmless. In the case of antibiotics, if it’s a patient with hypersensitivity to products such as amoxicillin, the outcome can be serious.
Clarissa Gondim Porto, academic career in chemistry and pharmacy from the Universidad San Sebastián said that amoxicillin “belongs to the class of beta-lactam antibiotics, with the function of inhibiting the synthesis of bacterial cell wall”.
That is why it is widely used in infections of the upper and lower respiratory tract of bacterial origin. “Usually the patients that use this antibiotic present or recounted stomach pain and intestinal disorders such as diarrhea, which is very common, as well as nausea and vomiting”, indicates the teacher.
However, warns that if there is a particularly dangerous reaction and hypersensitivity or allergic reaction to amoxicillin is: “the patient which is hypersensitive to these medications may suffer an anaphylactic shock. I.e., takes place a serious commitment of airway allergic reaction product and the patient must receive medical attention quickly to avoid grave consequences.”
For this reason it is essential that people who have gone through this situation have any note of caution as a notice in the wallet or any signal, alerting the health professionals that they care for you regarding this hypersensitivity. In that sense, the academic stresses that “there are patients who have a slight allergy such as a rash, but others may experience this anaphylactic shock” and his life is at risk.
The problem is that there is no way to know before if a person is allergic, unless you have experienced this reaction in a treatment with amoxicillin.
Amoxicillin: use abusive and errors in addition, the teacher puts the spotlight on the abusive use of antibiotics for any respiratory condition, without consulting a doctor. In this regard, Gondim explains that it is not always necessary to use antibiotics as amoxicillin, although parents “to see that their children are with much secretion and expectoration, especially at night”, because the origin of the disease could be viral.
“If a non-bacterial and viral infection antibiotics is all that will do is generate resistance to the use of the antibiotic being used”, sentencing the teaching and emphasizes you should not buy antibiotics without a prescription.
On the mistakes we make with amoxicillin, the academic says that this medication is prescribed by the doctor for a certain type of respiratory infections, that says that “it is important that the patient meets convincingly schedules and days of” “treatment indicated by the treating physician, thus avoiding infection happen again”.

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