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Suggest Medication For Pneumonia
my 14 year old son had a CRP of 329, Sed Rate of 89, WBC 10.3 hgb 11 g/dl low PCV blood 33%. he was diagnosed with a pneumonia - bottom of his top left lung. He was given rocephin for the pneumonia on the 2nd day through the 7th day with a fever of 103 through all of it, and he was in the hospital from day 4 through the 7th and then after. His hgb was slowly going from 10.7 to 9 gm/dl by the 7th day. His CRP prior to receiving any antiboitics was 12.5 mg/l and he has never every been over 20 mg/l with pneumonia. Can you tell from the above information what was happening from him?
Tue, 9 Sep 2014
Thanks for your question on HCM. Since you are saying that your son is on antibiotic for pneumonia, and not improving, in my opinion one should change the antibiotic and step up the antibiotics. Rocephin is ceftriaxone. It is cephalosporin and useful in stable patient with pneumonia. First thing I would suggest to go for chest x ray and see weather the lesion is increasing or decreasing. 2nd is send sputum culture and sensitivity so that we can guide the antibiotics according to organism. At this point I would suggest you to start augmentin and levofloxacin both. And go for chest x ray and sputum culture.
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