Any Pharmacistsc or Docs online?

[Pickled Piper]

What's the difference between Flucloxacillin and Amoxicillin?

Many thanks in advance.

pp

[HughS47]

This might be a lazy answer, but in really simple terms they have slightly different areas of coverage in terms of bacteria, despite being both penicillin based.
Amoxicillin tends to be used for respiratory tract stuff, fluclox for skin and other bits and pieces.
A microbiologist will know more....

[louiebaby]

HughS47 said:

This might be a lazy answer, but in really simple terms they have slightly different areas of coverage in terms of bacteria, despite being both penicillin based.
Amoxicillin tends to be used for respiratory tract stuff, fluclox for skin and other bits and pieces.
A microbiologist will know more....

Good answer, and in practical terms, Amoxicillin is 3x a day, with Flucloxacillin is 4x a day.

[Pickled Piper]

Thank you. I am a layman so that's the level of answer that I needed.

I did Google it but got lots more detail than I could understand.

Cheers.

pp