Talk:Amoxicillin

message: I think this is not good practice to list or create articles about
brand names (proprietary names). They come and go. Besides in different
countries the same drug by the same manufacturer is sold under different
brand names.
There are exceptions of course we definitely should have articles about :
Viagra,Valium,Prozac and possibly Rohypnol (date-rape drug ?).
Can we ask the administrators to issue the official policy on brand names of
pharmaceuticals ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.99.105.xxx (talk • contribs) 12:03, 12 December 2001 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: I used to make this stuff and I know that Clavulanic Acid is never used in Amox mixes but is changed into Potassium Clavulanate (see the product pages for Augmentin at SmithKilne Beecham).
The actual conversion process is :- Streptomyces clavuligerus - Clavulanic acid - Tertiary butylamine salt of Clavulanic acid (tBA) - Potassium Clavulanate.
I have been correcting the pages to show the actual chemical used.
Tmd63 10:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Co-amoxiclav A mixture of amoxicillin (as the trihydrate or as the sodium salt) and clavulanic acid (as potassium clavulanate)..."
*I'll therefore revert back, but add the details of the forms used to Amoxicillin, Co-amoxiclav, Clavulanic acid and Potassium Clavulanate (which incidentally is wrong in its specification of only being mixed with the trihydrate form of Amoxicillin)David Ruben  Talk  00:13, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Potassium Clavulanate not Clavulanic Acid

message: Some side affects may include nose bleeds.
:—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.255.143.130 (talk • contribs). 23:07, 18 October 2006
Yeast infections are common in women who take any kind of antibiotic.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Citysmile (talk • contribs) 20:07, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Side Effects 

message: :I nearly died recently from anaphylactic shock triggered by Amoxil.  In my case the reaction was full-blown -- protruding tongue rendering it impossible to speak); extensive rash on arms and body; maddeningly itchy hands and feet; swollen lips, feet and hands;  dangerously low blood pressure; and shallow breathing -- in only 20 minutes after exposure.   
:For obvious reasons, I think it a bad policy to relegate allergies to medications to a general article.  This is such a dangerous and potentially fatal reaction that it should be given more prominence and urgency.  Hedley 09:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anaphylaxis 

message: "Amoxicillin is often known for its unappealing taste and odor."
Can anyone back this up? I have not noticed it. if its old yes i had some sitting around and now it smells of sulfer
 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.17.66.42 (talk) 22:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Depends if you're taking coated tablets or not :P... in my experience? They don't smell strongly at all. Kareeser|Talk! 19:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Chemically, it looks as cresol —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.214.119.52 (talk) 17:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, me and my girlfriend have just taken it for 5 days and we both disgusted every single dose. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.238.133.137 (talk) 18:03, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I think it smells exactly like Ethanethiol, personally. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.3.254.86 (talk) 13:05, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad taste/smell

message: It'd be great to have a little bit about the history of amoxicillin. Who invented it? Presumably, someone working in the labs of one of the big pharma companies, going round sticking random substituents on penicillin to see what worked, but who, and at what company?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.96.235.0 (talk) 22:39, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: +1!  Even knowing what year it was discovered would be great! —Sburke (talk) 00:53, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Like ampicillin before it, amoxicillin was invented at Beecham (probably sometime in the 1960s) and introduced in 1972. I'll see what I can do about finding a source and adding it to the article. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 01:32, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I'm taking amoxicillin as a prevention for infecition. When I read the offical package instructions about the drug it said it has 2 hours half-life, but in your "box" it says 1 hour. Please someone verify either.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.85.132.67 (talk) 17:46, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info Box 

message: "Diagnosed by a pediatric resident at local university hospital" sounds to the uninitiated as if the diagnosis was made by a child!  Could someone kindly correct it?  JRPG (talk) 12:53, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rash photograph. 

message: I am aware that antibiotic prophylaxis is no longer recommended in the UK due to the risk of hypersensitivity. Is this also the case in other areas of the world? If so, it might be worth editing the Medical uses section to reflect common practice.GadBeebe (talk) 15:51, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uses Dental Prophylaxis 

message: Is oral Amoxicillin effective against Syphillis? If so, at what dose and for how long? --125.4.190.48 (talk) 08:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syphillis 

message: Substituted at 07:38, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: How do I explain that amoxicillin is not penicillin? 130.105.213.205 (talk) 09:05, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a type of penicillin (it is in the penicillin family). Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:52, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amoxicillin is not penicillin 

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message: I reorganized some information into new subsections, corrected some serious errors and added some citations to high-quality articles. This article still has many errors and omissions. Sbelknap (talk) 20:12, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical Indications 

message: In the second picture of the molecule in the box on the top right, two hydrogen atoms seem to have been omitted.
They appear correctly in the interactive picture. 2A00:23C7:99A5:9E01:F436:DA91:49A:2DE6 (talk) 13:09, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, a nitrogen atom seems to have three hydrogens, when it should have two.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:99A5:9E01:F436:DA91:49A:2DE6 (talk) 13:12, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hydrogens 

message: Per https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478392/ and more specifically https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478392/table/t1/?report=objectonly, they no longer recommend the spelling with the y. I don't know exactly how to edit this information into the page. It's clear that "Amoxycillin (AAN AU)" oughta be deleted from the info-box Other Names. It is less clear, to me, however, how to edit  Amoxicillin.
Since I don't know what sort of edit to make, I figured I'd just give the heads-up of AAN's relatively new guideline on the talk-page GrapesRock (talk) 02:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  As of June 2017, AAN recommends Amoxicillin spelling