High dose amoxicillin: Rationale for use in otitis media treatment failures
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- 1 July 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Paediatrics & Child Health
- Vol. 4 (5) , 321-323
Abstract
A small number of effective therapeutic options exist for children with acute otitis media who fail to respond to initial therapy or whose illness relapses quickly after discontinuing antibiotics (1). One option is the use of high dose (90 to 100 mg/kg/day) oral amoxicillin. This paper discusses the rationale for this choice in the above clinical circumstances.Keywords
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