What is vancomycin toxicity?

by Admin on August 25, 2010

I have never heard of this medical term, and google and wikipedia are not helping via exact matches.

Can anyone tell me what it is, or a site that will tell me exactly what I need to know? Thanks for your responses.

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shells August 25, 2010 at 5:08 pm

Vancomycin is a IV antibiotic. Blood levels ( a peak and a trough level) are usually monitored to help the Doctors decide if the strength that is being given Is to strong, to weak or just right for the infection they are treating. If you want to find out more information about the toxicity of this drug, I would try to do a search under the names of the blood tests.

Orlando L August 25, 2010 at 5:08 pm

Basically its toxicity to an antibiotic so your getting poisoned by an antibiotic.

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