A patient who has been prescribed amoxicillin (Amoxil) 250 mg orally every 8 hours asks the nurse if a higher dose of the drug just once a day can be taken instead. What is the nurse's best response?
a. "Taking this drug every 8 hours helps keep the blood level of the drug high enough to affect the bacteria."
b. "Giving the drug at regular intervals over a 24-hour period helps prevent side ef-fects."
c. "Let me contact your prescriber and ask whether the drug can be given once a day."
d. "When given once a day, the dose is higher so allergic reactions are more com-mon."
A
For all antibacterial therapy, it is important to keep the blood level high enough to affect the bacteria causing the infection. For this reason it is best for a patient to take the drug evenly throughout a 24-hour period.
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