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About Pexomox-500 Tablet
Pexomox-500 Tablet is an antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections such as pneumonia, bronchitis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis and sinusitis, acne, ear infections, and sexually transmitted infections. A bacterial infection is a condition in which bacteria grow in the body and cause infection.
Pexomox-500 Tablet contains Amoxycillin, which kills the bacterial cell by blocking the chemical (mucopeptides) released by the bacteria's outer layer (cell wall).
Not everyone who is taking Pexomox-500 Tablet will get these side effects. Some common side effects of Pexomox-500 Tablet are diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, and indigestion. These side effects are temporary and may resolve on their own over time. However, if these side effects persist, don't hesitate to contact your doctor.
Pexomox-500 Tablet should only be taken if advised by your doctor. It can be taken with or without food but should be consumed at a fixed time for the best results. The Pexomox-500 Tablet should not be consumed in a dose exceeding the recommended amount to avoid unpleasant side effects. Also, the course should be completed even if you feel better.
Inform your physician if you are allergic to Pexomox-500 Tablet , or have any history of liver problems or muscle problems. Do not use Pexomox-500 Tablet without a doctor's advice if you have a skin reaction or irritation to any medicine. Do not discontinue or abruptly stop the medication, as it may lead to antibiotic resistance, a condition in which bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
Uses of Pexomox-500 Tablet
Pexomox-500 Tablet is used in the treatment of bacterial infections. The detailed uses of Pexomox-500 Tablet are as follows:
- Bacterial Infections: Pexomox-500 Tablet is widely used to treat various bacterial infections, including pneumonia, bronchitis, and ear infections.
- Skin Infections: Pexomox-500 Tablet effectively treats skin infections caused by susceptible bacteria, reducing inflammation and promoting healing.
- Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs): Pexomox-500 Tablet is prescribed to manage UTIs by targeting the bacteria responsible for the condition.
- Stomach Ulcers: Pexomox-500 Tablet can be part of a comprehensive treatment plan to eliminate Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium associated with stomach ulcers.
- Dental Infections: Dentists commonly recommend Pexomox-500 Tablet to treat dental infections and prevent complications during or after dental procedures.
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Directions for Use
- Pexomox-500 Tablet can be taken with or without food or as advised by your doctor.
- Follow your doctor's instructions on the dosage and timing of this medication.
- Swallow Pexomox-500 Tablet as a whole with a glass of water.
- Do not crush, break, or chew it.
Medicinal Benefits
- Pexomox-500 Tablet is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that helps treat various bacterial infections.
- Pexomox-500 Tablet is effective against gram-positive (S. pneumoniae) and gram-negative bacteria (E. coli, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria gonorrhoea).
- Besides this, Pexomox-500 Tablet also helps treat stomach ulcers caused by the H. pylori bacteria.
- If combined with antibiotics like clarithromycin and acidity medicine like lansoprazole, it helps reduce the symptoms of duodenal ulcers.
- Pexomox-500 Tablet can be safely prescribed and well-tolerated among adults, children, and pregnant and nursing mothers.
- Pexomox-500 Tablet weakens and destroys the bacterial cell wall. It is a broad range of antibiotics that help fight various types of bacteria.
How Pexomox-500 Tablet Works
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- Inform Your Doctor: Notify your doctor immediately about your diarrhoea symptoms. This allows them to adjust your medication or provide guidance on managing side effects.
- Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of fluids to replace lost water and electrolytes. Choose water, clear broth, and electrolyte-rich drinks. Avoid carbonated or caffeinated beverages to effectively rehydrate your body.
- Follow a Bland Diet: Eat easy-to-digest foods to help firm up your stool and settle your stomach. Try incorporating bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, plain crackers, and boiled vegetables into your diet.
- Avoid Trigger Foods: Steer clear of foods that can worsen diarrhoea, such as spicy, fatty, or greasy foods, high-fibre foods, and dairy products (especially if you're lactose intolerant).
- Practice Good Hygiene: Maintain good hygiene to prevent the spread of infection. To stay healthy, wash your hands frequently, clean and disinfect surfaces regularly, and avoid exchanging personal belongings with others.
- Take Anti-Diarrheal Medications: If your doctor advises, anti-diarrheal medications such as loperamide might help manage diarrhoea symptoms. Always follow your doctor's directions.
- Keep track of your diarrhoea symptoms. If they don't get better or worse or are accompanied by severe stomach pain, blood, or dehydration signs (like extreme thirst or dark urine), seek medical help.
- Drink water or other clear fluids.
- To prevent worsening of pain, limit intake of tea, coffee, or alcohol.
- Include bland foods like rice, toast, crackers, and rice in your diet.
- Avoid lying down immediately after eating as it may cause indigestion or heartburn.
- Avoid acidic and spicy food as it may cause indigestion.
- Hydrate your body: Drink enough water to prevent dehydration and headaches.
- Calm Your Mind: Deep breathing and meditation can help you relax and relieve stress.
- Rest and Recharge: Sleep for 7-8 hours to reduce headache triggers.
- Take rest: lie down in a quiet, dark environment.
- Cold or warm compresses can help reduce tension.
- Stay Upright: Maintain good posture to keep symptoms from getting worse.
- To treat headaches naturally, try acupuncture or massage therapy.
- Over-the-counter pain relievers include acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
- Prescription Assistance: Speak with your doctor about more substantial drug alternatives.
- Severe Headaches: Seek emergency medical assistance for sudden, severe headaches.
- Frequent Headaches: If you get reoccurring headaches, consult your doctor.
- Headaches with Symptoms: Seek medical attention if your headaches include fever, disorientation, or weakness.
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Drug Warnings
- Do not take Pexomox-500 Tablet if you are allergic to any of its components.
- Taking Pexomox-500 Tablet may cause antibiotic-induced diarrhoea in some cases.
- Penicillin antibiotics, blood thinners (warfarin, coumadin), uric acid-lowering drugs (allopurinol, probenecid), and anti-cancer or anti-arthritis drugs (methotrexate) may severely interact with Pexomox-500 Tablet .
- Tell your doctor if you have chronic kidney disease or viral glandular fever (mononucleosis) before taking Pexomox-500 Tablet .
- This medicine may lower the efficiency of oral birth control pills or contraceptive devices.
- An intake of Pexomox-500 Tablet may alter some glucose urine tests like the copper reduction test report.
- Do not use Pexomox-500 Tablet in more than prescribed doses or longer duration as it may cause adverse effects.
- Keep your doctor informed about your health condition and all the medicines you take before taking Pexomox-500 Tablet to rule out any side effects.
- It is always important to check the expiry date of the medicine. Discard the medicine if it reaches the expiry date.
Drug-Drug Interactions
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Co-administration of Pexomox-500 Tablet and Cholera, live attenuated may reduce the activity of the vaccine.
How to manage the interaction:
If you are currently being treated with Pexomox-500 Tablet or have been treated within the last 14 days, talk to your doctor before receiving cholera vaccine, live. Do not discontinue the medication without consulting a doctor.
Co-administration of methotrexate with Pexomox-500 Tablet can increase the levels and side effects of methotrexate.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is a possible interaction between methotrexate and Pexomox-500 Tablet, you can take these medicines together if prescribed by your doctor. However, if you experience any symptoms such as tiredness, dizziness, fainting, unusual bleeding or bruising, chills, fever, sore throat, body pains. Consult a doctor immediately. Do not stop using medications without a doctor's advice.
Co-administration of Pexomox-500 Tablet with doxycycline may reduce the therapeutic effect of Pexomox-500 Tablet.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is a possible interaction between Pexomox-500 Tablet and Doxycycline, you can take these medicines together if prescribed by your doctor. Do not stop using any medications without consulting a doctor.
Co-administration of Pexomox-500 Tablet and Zalcitabine can be decreased when combined with Pexomox-500 Tablet.
How to manage the interaction:
There may be a possibility of interaction between Zalcitabine and Pexomox-500 Tablet, but it can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Co-administration of BCG vaccine with Pexomox-500 Tablet may reduce the effect of BCG vaccine.
How to manage the interaction:
If you are about to receive BCG vaccine, inform the doctor that you are taking Pexomox-500 Tablet. Do not discontinue the medication without consulting a doctor.
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Diet & Lifestyle Advise
- After taking the full course of Pexomox-500 Tablet , probiotics should be taken to restore some of the healthy bacteria in the intestine that may have been killed. Taking probiotics after antibiotic treatment can reduce the risk of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. Certain fermented foods like yoghurt, cheese, sauerkraut and kimchi can restore the intestine's good bacteria stink.
- Include more fibre-enriched food in your diet, as it can be easily digested by gut bacteria, which helps stimulate their growth. Thus fibre foods may help restore healthy gut bacteria after taking a course of antibiotics. Whole grains like whole-grain bread, and brown rice, should be included in your diet.
- Avoid taking too many calcium-enriched foods and drinks as it might affect the working of Pexomox-500 Tablet .
- Avoid intake of alcoholic beverages with Pexomox-500 Tablet as it can make you dehydrated and affect your sleep. This can make it harder for your body to aid the Pexomox-500 Tablet in fighting off infections.
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Alcohol
Unsafe
Do not drink too much while taking this medicine. Drinking a lot of alcohol may more likely to drowsiness, dizziness or sleepiness side effects.
Pregnancy
Caution
Pexomox-500 Tablet is a pregnancy category B drug. So, Pexomox-500 Tablet can be safely taken by pregnant women if prescribed by the doctor.
Breast Feeding
Safe if prescribed
Can safely give Pexomox-500 Tablet to breastfeeding mothers.
Driving
Caution
You may have side effects like dizziness after taking Pexomox-500 Tablet that may make you unfit to drive. So, it is advisable not to drive or operate machinery until you are feeling well.
Liver
Safe if prescribed
Pexomox-500 Tablet can be safely taken in case of liver disease if prescribed by the doctor. Your doctor will weigh the benefits and any potential risks before prescribing Pexomox-500 Tablet .
Kidney
Caution
Take Pexomox-500 Tablet with caution if you have severe kidney disease. Your doctor may reduce the dose of Pexomox-500 Tablet in patients with severe renal impairment (GFR less than 30 mL/min).
Children
Consult your doctor
Pexomox-500 Tablet can be safely given to to children, only if recommended by a child specialist only.
Heart
Pexomox-500 Tablet is generally considered safe for individuals with heart conditions. However, it is advisable to consult your doctor before taking Pexomox-500 Tablet .
Geriatrics
Consult your doctor
Pexomox-500 Tablet should be given to elderly patients only if prescribed by a doctor. Seek medical advice if you have any concerns.
FAQs
Pexomox-500 Tablet is used to treat various bacterial infections like ear, nose, or throat (ENT) infections, skin infections, genitourinary tract, and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) caused by susceptible bacteria.
Pexomox-500 Tablet kills the bacterial cell by blocking the chemical (mucopeptides) released by the bacteria's outer layer (cell wall). In turn, Pexomox-500 Tablet weakens and destroys the bacterial cell wall. It is a broad range of antibiotics that helps in fighting various types of bacteria.
Amoxycillin belongs to the class of penicillin antibiotics. Pexomox-500 Tablet is a broad-spectrum antibiotic effective against a wide range of bacteria. On the other hand, penicillin is a narrow-spectrum antibiotic effective against fewer bacteria.
Do not use anti diarrhoeal until the doctor has prescribed you. You can drink plenty of fluids (electrolytes) to avoid dehydration. Besides this, you can also take prebiotics or probiotics to manage diarrhoea as it may help increase the number of good bacteria in the intestine, which aids indigestion.
Try to stay well hydrated by drinking at least six glasses of water or other fluid per day. Always keep your bladder empty as much as possible by peeing regularly.
After taking an antibiotic, you may need to wait for up to three hours to eat or drink any dairy products, including milk and butter, yoghurt, and cheese. Grapefruit juice and dietary supplements containing minerals like calcium may also work to dampen the effect of antibiotics.
Do not stop using Pexomox-500 Tablet even if you feel better. It should be strictly used as advised by your doctor to avoid the recurrence of symptoms and to worsen the disease.
Pexomox-500 Tablet may cause side effects such as nausea and diarrhoea. If these side effects persist or worsen, please consult your doctor.
Pexomox-500 Tablet can be used during pregnancy if prescribed by a doctor. Do not self-medicate, especially during pregnancy since there is limited safety information available on the use of Pexomox-500 Tablet during pregnancy. Consult a doctor before taking Pexomox-500 Tablet .
You should not take Pexomox-500 Tablet if you have or ever had cirrhosis, severe kidney or liver disease, adrenal gland failure, an electrolyte imbalance, or an allergy to Pexomox-500 Tablet or sulfa drugs. Also, inform your doctor if you are pregnant, planning to conceive or are breastfeeding to avoid any harmful effect on your baby.
Pexomox-500 Tablet is effective if used in the dose and duration prescribed by your doctor. Do not stop taking Pexomox-500 Tablet even if you see improvement in your condition as discontinuing Pexomox-500 Tablet too early may cause symptoms to worsen or reoccur.
If you forget to take a dose of Pexomox-500 Tablet , take it as soon as you remember. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and take the next scheduled dose in the prescribed time. Do not double the dose to make up for the missed one as this may increase the risk of side effects.
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