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  MedlinePlus Drug Information: Clindamycin
Clindamycin may cause colitis, an infection of the colon that can be dangerous and sometimes life-threatening.
Clindamycin, an antibiotic, is used to treat infections of the respiratory tract, skin, pelvis, vagina, and abdomen.
Clindamycin usually is taken every 6 hours for respiratory, pelvis, or abdomen infections or applied twice a day for acne.
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  Clindamycin Drug Information
Clindamycin, an antibiotic, is used to treat infections of the respiratory tract, skin, pelvis, vagina, and abdomen.
Clindamycin for abscessed tooth almost killed me http://www.meds-help.com/clindamycin/ Clindamycin may cause colitis, an infection of the colon that can be dangerous and sometimes life-threatening.
Clindamycin for abscessed tooth almost killed me I was given Clindamycin for an abscessed tooth.
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  Clindamycin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clindamycin (rINN) (IPA: [klɪndəˈmaɪsən]) is a lincosamide antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by susceptible microorganisms.
Clindamycin is a semisynthetic antibiotic derived from lincomycin by 7(S)-chloro-substitution of the 7(R)-hydroxyl group of the lincomycin.
Clindamycin is used primarily to treat infections caused by susceptible anaerobic bacteria.
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 ADAP drugs: clindamycin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Clindamycin is an antiparasitic drug used in combination with pyrimethamine for maintenance treatment of toxoplasmosis.
Clindamycin is used to treat acute toxoplasmosis, although it may not be as effective as pyrimethamine-sulfa.
Clindamycin is used for treatment of skin infections, respiratory tract infections, septicemia, abdominal infections, gynecologic infections, and topical treatment of severe acne.
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 Clindamycin (Antirobe®)
Clindamycin is an antibiotic that is used in dogs and cats.
Clindamycin is used in both dogs and cats to treat bacterial infections, including skin infections, wound infections, bone infections, pneumonia, dental (tooth) infections, and other infections of the oral cavity.
Clindamycin should not be used in animals with known hypersensitivity or allergy to the drug.
www.petplace.com /drug-library/clindamycin-antirobe/page1.aspx   (626 words)

  
 ACS :: Cancer Drug Guide: clindamycin phosphate
Clindamycin phosphate is an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections.
Clindamycin phosphate is used to treat gram–positive and gram–negative bacteria.
Clindamycin phosphate can be given by mouth as a capsule or liquid 4 times a day, or as an injection into the vein or muscle 2 to 4 times a day.
www.cancer.org /docroot/CDG/content/CDG_clindamycin_phosphate.asp   (589 words)

  
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 clindamycin topical - [Medication]
Clindamycin is used topically to treat bacterial infections such as acné.
Clindamycin topical is in the FDA pregnancy category B. This means that it is unlikely to harm an unborn baby.
Clindamycin is available with a prescription under the brand name Cleocin T. Other brand or generic formulations may also be available.
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 Pharmacy Times: Product Focus: Clindamycin
Clindamycin is an alternative treatment for acute otitis media, pharyngitis, and tonsillitis in cases of penicillin or macrolide resistance or allergy.
Clindamycin also may be used in conjunction with oral quinine in the treatment of uncomplicated, chloroquine-resistant malaria.
Clindamycin is an alternative oral agent in the prevention of bacterial endocarditis in penicillin-allergic patients with congenital heart disease, valvular heart dysfunction, surgically constructed pulmonary shunts, mitral valve prolapse, or previous episodes of bacterial endocarditis.
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 Infectious Diseases in Children - Clindamycin: new look at an old drug
Clindamycin pediatric oral solution should not be refrigerated by caregivers, as this increases its viscosity, potentially reducing the ability of the caregiver to accurately measure a dose.
Clindamycin (30-40 mg/kg/day in three divided doses) has been recommended in the new AAP clinical practice guideline “Diagnosis and Management of Acute Otitis Media” for children with type I allergies to penicillin who have not adequately responded to an initial trial of antibiotic therapy.
Thus, use of clindamycin in a child infected with a community-acquired MRSA known to be resistant to erythromycin and susceptible to clindamycin may result in clinical failure in some instances, as expression of this inducible gene confers resistance to clindamycin during treatment.
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 clindamycin and benzoyl peroxide gel - Skin diseases, conditions and procedures on MedicineNet.com
Benzaclin is used topically (applied to the skin) for the treatment of acne.
PREGNANCY: Although clindamycin can be used safely during pregnancy, Benzaclin has not been tested in pregnant women, and its safety for the fetus is not known.
Because orally ingested clindamycin is secreted into breast milk and may cause side effects in infants, it is preferable for nursing mothers not to use Benzaclin.
www.medicinenet.com /clindamycin_and_benzoyl_peroxide_gel/article.htm   (397 words)

  
 Clindamycin as an Antimalarial Drug: Review of Clinical Trials -- Lell and Kremsner 46 (8): 2315 -- Antimicrobial ...
Clindamycin in combination with chloroquine or quinine is an effective therapy for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children from Gabon.
Therapeutic responses to quinine and clindamycin in multidrug-resistant falciparum malaria.
Therapeutic efficacy of clindamycin in combination with quinine for treating uncomplicated malaria in a village dispensary in Gabon.
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Clindamycin has some antimalarial activity but is a poor choice compared to the other available antimalarial drugs.
Although clindamycin may be useful for treatment of pregnant women and very young children (Pukrittayakamee et al., 2000a) more effective drugs are available that can be used in these groups (such as mefloquine or even, perhaps, mefloquine + artesunate).
Although clindamycin had no appreciable effect on bacteria growth at concentrations up to 50 micrograms/ml, it suppressed inducible beta-lactamase biosynthesis almost completely at a concentration of 20 micrograms/ml.
www.lycos.com /info/clindamycin.html   (644 words)

  
 Clindamycin, an effective drug for dental infectio
Clindamycin is also useful for dental infections in patients who are allergic or do not respond to Penicillin.
Clindamycin has been shown to cause a potentially dangerous form of colitis, called pseudomembranous colitis, in a small percentage of patients.
Clindamycin should also not be prescribed for patients with a history of gastrointestinal disease, especially colitis, without the dentist first consulting with the patient’s family doctor or medical specialist.
www.dentalcomfortzone.com /archive/ClindamycinEffectiveDrug.html   (516 words)

  
 Clindamycin (Vaginal) - MayoClinic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vaginal clindamycin is used during the second or third trimester of pregnancy.
It is not known whether clindamycin used vaginally passes into the breast milk.
Clindamycin taken by mouth does pass into the breast milk and has not been reported to cause problems in nursing babies.
www.mayoclinic.com /health/drug-information/DR202700   (1414 words)

  
 Data Sheet
Clindamycin is mainly eliminated by hepatic metabolism and biliary excretion.
Septicemia and endocarditis - the effectiveness of clindamycin in the treatment of selected cases of endocarditis has been documented when clindamycin is determined to be bactericidal to the infecting organism by in vitro testing of appropriate achievable serum concentrations.
Clindamycin is contraindicated in patients previously found to be sensitive to clindamycin or lincomycin or any of the ingredients as listed under 'Description".
www.medsafe.govt.nz /profs/Datasheet/d/DalacinCcap.htm   (2086 words)

  
 Newly Approved Drug Therapies (657): Clindamycin phosphate topical gel, Target Research Associates
Clindamycin phosphate topical gel, 1% is a topical antibiotic approved for the treatment of acne vulgaris.
Although clindamycin phosphate is inactive in vitro, rapid in vitro hydrolysis converts this compound to clindamycin which has antibacterial activity.
Clindamycin inhibits bacteria protein synthesis at the ribosomal level by binding to the 50S ribosomal subunit and affecting the process of peptide chain initiation.
www.centerwatch.com /patient/drugs/dru657.html   (537 words)

  
 Clindamycin
But since the side effects of caffeine, smoking, and alcohol can Clindamycin be similar to the side effects of thyroid hormone therapy, their effects can be additive.
One patient who was doing well off the T3 therapy noticed that she could prevent small relapses by taking the smallest dosage level of T3 therapy the Clindamycin day before, the day of, and the day after events she knew were going to be stressful.
And one ’ s best chance at that is often to quickly increase the T3 therapy on top of Clindamycin a steady endogenous platform before that platform recedes very much [likened to moving swiftly out and holding in the button as long as possible before the seesaw lowers very much].5 days.
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 Clindamycin Information from Drugs.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Clindamycin is an antibiotic that fights bacteria in the body.
Clindamycin is used to treat serious infections caused by bacteria.
allergic to clindamycin or lincomycin (Bactramycin, L-Mycin, Lincocin); or
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 Clindamycin Hydrochloride
Clindamycin is an antibiotic of the “lincosamide” class and possesses similar properties to its sister compound “lincomycin.” To understand how these medications work, it is important to understand how proteins are made by cells.
Oral clindamycin is unpleasant tasting and may be rejected by some patients.
If this is not possible, it may be helpful to measure blood levels of clindamycin to be sure they do not get too high.
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 Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Clindamycin and Quinine Treatment for Babesia microti Infections
Quinine and clindamycin were discontinued on August 16, and the patient was discharged on August 17.
The efficacy of clindamycin and quinine in treating malaria caused by multidrug-resistant strains of P. falciparum was reported in 1974 (6).
Clindamycin was effective against B. microti in hamsters, but had no appreciable effect on parasitemia in mongolian jirds (6,10).
www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001244.htm   (1661 words)

  
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Seventy days after a complete dental prophylaxis the three 5-day clindamycin regimen resulted in a numerical reduction of 20% from baseline values in oral malodor compared with a small (4%) reduction for the one 5-day clindamycin HCl regimen and an 18% increase for the placebo treatment group.
The back-trans-formed clindamycin HCl treatment group means at day 14 were 76.59 ppb for the three 5-day regimen, 70.92 ppb for the one 5-day regimen, and 134.41 ppb for the control group (Table 14).
The clindamycin HCl three 5-day regimen had a back-transformed mean of 139.65 ppb at day 70, the clindamycin one 5-day regimen had a mean of 174.77 ppb, and the control group had a mean of 176.73 ppb (Table 15).
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Clindamycin given by mouth or injection has been associated with inflammation of the bowel, leading to diarrhoea with blood and mucus.
This is extremely rare with clindamycin applied to the skin, but if you do experience diarrhoea you should stop using this medicine and consult your doctor immediately.
Clindamycin may cause colitis, an infection of the colon that can be dangerous and sometimes life-threatening.
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 Clindamycin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Clindamycin, an antibiotic, is used to treat infections of the respiratory tract, skin, pelvis, vagina, and abdomen.
Clindamycin comes as a capsule and liquid to take by mouth; topical solution, lotion, and gel for skin infections; and vaginal cream.
Clindamycin usually is taken every 6 hours for respiratory, pelvis, or abdomen infections or applied twice a day for acne.
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