Giving amoxicillin just ONCE a day may be effective for treating Strep pharyngitis in children
Giving amoxicillin just ONCE a day may be effective for treating Strep pharyngitis in children.
Penicillin is still the drug of choice for Strep pharyngitis. But it has to be given BID to TID...once a day isn't effective.
Now new evidence suggests that amoxicillin 750 mg ONCE a day for 10 days works as well as pen VK 250 mg TID.
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