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Originally Posted by Steve G  Now a question: does anyone know of any evidence supporting the use of either amoxicillin or metronidazole at a qds dose? (Especially in dental infections). |
I've never seen (as I recall) metronidazole prescribed QDS but in my neck of the woods every dentist prescribes amoxicillin QDS. It's not going to affect the patient, and isn't an overdose, so it doesn't concern me. My own dentist told me that was the dose he was told to use during his dentistry course.
I once worked for a week where one of the local GP's prescribed amoxicillin QDS and ampicillin TDS. I phoned up the surgery and tried to speak to him, but could not get through, so I left a message for him basically asking if he had got the two drug doses mixed up. He came into the pharmacy the next day for something else, and I had a conversation with him basically saying the same as I did in the message. I said I wasn't really concerned about the amoxicillin dose, but the ampicillin one was only 75% of the recommended dose, and that concerned me. The result - nothing changed, so I had to give up on that one.