Give me 5! This respiratory season, remember most respiratory infections don't need an antibiotic. But if prescribed, 5 days is best! Read our review in #JPIDS in support of 5 days abx (if needed) for GAS pharyngitis, AOM, and sinusitis. #PedSky #PedsIDSky #IDSky
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And it’s unpredictable. Sometimes just colonizing flora you should ignore and doesn’t do anything. Other times tries to kill you in 12 hours.
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As long as it's an oral regimen, I'll let it slide. Get the PICC lines out!
I was summoned by talk of cefdinir… @mikerusso.bsky.social
Interestingly, in our cephalexin PK paper, QID with spacing like that had similar if not better PTAs than q6. So very much agree with that kind of QID dosing, if you’re going to give 4 times a day. Or just TID. I do a mix of both.
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Amox is still used way more. Personally, I think the high spontaneous resolution rate of respiratory viral syndromes reinforces the belief that cefdinir works. And it probably works fine for penicillin susceptible S pneumo, which is a lot of what’s out there.
Summoning the rest of PedsID to Bluesky:
Cefdinir, cefdinir, cefdinir!
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