Drugs Flashcards
Drugs that you don’t take with food
M- Macrlides - azithromyocin
T- tetramyocin - doxycline
F- fluroquinoles - Levoflovaxin
Drugs that avoid the sun
Fun (in) The Sun
F- Fluroquinoles: levoflovaxin
T: tetracycline: doxycycline
S: sulfonomide - Bactrum
Super toxic drugs
“Sun to have myosin” Mycin or ending with mycin Look at peak and trough Vertigo, timnitus, nephotoxic BUN over 20 Creatin over 1.3
Penicillin
Oral contraceptives are ineffective
Take with food
Common: bleeding
Cephalosporin
Doesn’t cure c-Diff
Common: diarrhea
Glycopeptide
Vancomycin (very toxic)
Check peak and trough 15-30 min befor admin
Vancomycin
Burns the vein
Red mans syndrome
Doesn’t effect magnesium levels
Macrolides
Arithomyozin
Thoromyocin
Prolonged QT-check ECG
Tetracycline (what to look out for)
Think cyclist
Not pregnant safe
Teeth discoloration: bugs get in teeth
Avoids sun: Sun burns
Tetracycline use and how it works
Use on acne
Stop protein synthesis for growth
Take on empty stomach
Sit up 30 mins
Metrodiazole
Prototype: flagyl #1 drug for C-Diff Avoid alcohol
Metrodiazole side effects
Normal: dark urine and metallic taste
Adverse: Steven Johnson syndrome
What drugs are UTI medications
Sulfonomides
Fluroquinoles
Sulfonomide look out for
Bacrim: S- Sun burn U- urine chrytalized L- Love water f-folic acid
Fluroquinioles prototypes
Levofloxib
Ciprooxacin
Fluroquinoles (don’t do)
Avoid direct sun exposure
Achilles’ tendon rapture
Phenazopyrodine
(Not an antibiotic)
pyridium
Pain relief for UTI
Sulfonomide
Oldest bacterial agent to combat infection (UTI)
Alternative to penecillin
How Fluconazole works
Increase permeability of the fungal cell membrane
Effective against candidiasis
Fluconazole contraindications
Hypersensitivity
1st generation Cephalosporin
Cefazolin
2nd generation cephalosporins
Ceflactor
3rd generation cephalosporins
Ceftriaxone
4th generation
Cefepime
5th generation cephalosporins
Ceftaroline
