Giving amoxicillin just ONCE a day may be effective for treating Strep throat in children

March 1999

Giving amoxicillin just ONCE a day may be effective for treating Strep throat in children.

Penicillin is still the drug of choice for Strep throat. But it has to be given TID...once-a-day dosing 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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