Drug Cards 1-15 (osteoporosis agents and antibiotics) FDA Indications

Alendronate Sodium

-Treatment of osteoporosis in menopausal women (10mg per day or 70mg per week)

-Increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis

-Treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis in men and women

-Treatment of Pager’s disease of bone

Raloxifene HCl

-Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women (one 60mg tablet given once a day without regards to meals or time of day)

-Reduction in risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women and/or at high risk for invasive breast cancer

Amoxicillin Trihydrate

-Infections due to certain gram-negative and certain gram-positive organisms (250-500mg every eight hours or 500-875mg every 12 hours)

-Gonorrhea and acute uncomplicated urethral and anogenital infections

Amoxicillin with Clavulanate Potassium

-Sinusitis and otitis due to beta-lactamase producing strains

-Lower respiratory tract infections

-Skin and skin structure infections

-Urinary tract infections

(One Augmentin 500 every eight hours or one Augmentin 875 every twelve hours)

-Recurrent acute otitis media

-Acute bacterial sinusitis or community acquired pneumonia

Azithromycin Dihydrate

-Mild to moderate lower and upper respiratory tract infections, and skin and skin structure infections (500mg as a single dose on the first day followed by 250mg once daily for 4 more days)

-Acute bacterial sinusitis

-Mild to moderate acute bacterial exacerbations of COPD

-Genital ulcer disease

-Urethritis and cervicitis

-Acute otitis media (children)

-Pharyngitis/tonsillitis

-Prevention of disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex disease in people with advanced HIV infection

-Community acquired pneumonia

-Pelvic inflammatory disease

Cefdinir

-Community acquired pneumonia

-Acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (600mg daily in one or two doses)

-Acute maxillary sinusitis

-Pharyngitis and tonsillitis

-Uncomplicated skin and skin structure infections

-Acute bacterial otitis media

Cephalexin Monohydrate

-Streptococcal pharyngitis

-Skin and skin structure infections

-Uncomplicated cystitis

250mg to 1g every 6 hours

Ciprofloxacin HCl

-Infectious diarrhea

-Urinary tract infection (250-500mg every 12 hours)

-Acute uncomplicated pyelonephritis

-Lower respiratory tract, skin and skin structure, bone and joint infections

-Typhoid fever

-Uncomplicated cervical and urethral gonorrhea

-Acute uncomplicated cystitis in females

-Complicated intra-abdominal infections

-Bone/joint infections

Clindamycin HCl

-Serious respiratory tract infections

-Skin and soft tissue infections

-Septicemia

-Intra-abdominal infections such as peritonitis and abscess

-Infections of female pelvis and genital tract such as endometriosis, nongonococcal tubo-ovarian adscess, pelvic cellulitis, and postsurgical vaginal cuff infection

(150-450mg every 6 hours)

Doxycycline Hyclate

-Infections due to susceptible strains of gram-negative/gram-positive bacteria (100mg every 12 hours)

-Primary and secondary syphilis

-Uncomplicated gonorrhea

-Uncomplicated urethra, endocervical, or rectal infections due to chlamydia

-Prophylaxis of malaria

Levofloxacin

-Acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis (500mg every 24 hours for 7 days)

-Community acquired pneumonia

-Chronic bacterial prostatitis

-Nosocomial pneumonia

-Acute bacterial sinusitis

-Uncomplicated and complicated skin and skin structure infections

- Complicated and uncomplicated UTI

-Acute pyelonephritis

-Inhalational anthrax

Minocycline HCl

-Infections due to certain gram-negative and gram-positive organisms (200mg initially followed by 100mg every 12 hours)

-Syphilis

-Gonorrhea

-Asymptomatic carriers of meningitis

-Uncomplicated urethral, endocervical, or rectal infections due to chlamydia

-Inflammatory lesions of non-nodular moderate to severe acne vulgaris (Solodyn)

Mupirocin

-Impetigo (cover affected area with a small film of Bactroban three times a day)

-Prophylaxis and treatment of MRSA infections in the nasal cavity

-Secondarily infected traumatic skin lesions

Ofloxacin

-Ophthalmic infections associated with corneal ulcers

-Ophthalmic infections associated with conjunctivitis (one to two drops into conjuctival sac(s) every two to four hours while awake for two days and one to two drops four times a day for the next five days

Sulfamethoxazole with Trimethoprim

-Urinary tract infections

-Acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis for adults

(160mg trimethoprim/800mg sulfamethoxazole every 12 hours for 10 to 14 days)

-Shigellosis

-Acute otitis media in children

-Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis (PCP)

-Prophylaxis against PCP in individuals who are immunosuppressed

-Treatment of traveler’s diarrhea in adults