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About Sudesh Samuel
Expertise
I take questions on medication, pharmaceuticals and supplements. This includes areas of medication safety, queries related to drug profiles like pharmacology, side effects, interactions, precautions and contraindications, storage conditions, administration, supplement uses along with their interactions, precautions and side effects.

Experience
I am a licenced and practicing pharmacist specialising in the provision of healthcare communications material and drug information. I have run a drug information service at a national, tertiary, teaching hospital where my duties included managing several pharmacists in the development of continual education, providing drug information throughout the hospital and analyzing new and existing drugs for inclusion into the hospital formulary. I have been involved in several healthcare committees including patient safety, adverse drug reaction monitoring, antibiotic guidelines as well as a pharmacy and therapeutics committee. I was an on-call pharmacist with the national drug and poisons information centre. My research focus has been on medication review and I have presented findings on a renal medication review service and also published a review article on halting the allergic march in the World Allergy Organization Journal.

Organizations
Institute for Medication Management - http://www.medicationreview.net

Publications
World Allergy Organization Journal, Vision Reborn, Medical Grapevine, National University Hospital Pharmacy and Therapeutics Newsletter, National University Hospital Adverse Drug Reaction Newsletter, National Healthcare Group Adverse Drug Reaction Newsletter, suite101

Education/Credentials
Master of Health Service Management, Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy with Honours

Awards and Honors
Valedictorian

Past/Present Clients
Various healthcare practices

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Pharmacy - Antibiotic that is not in the penicilin family

Expert: Sudesh Samuel - 10/25/2009

Question
My daughter is allergic to all antibiotics that are related to penicillin. What other drugs can be used to combat bronchitis?
Thank You.

Answer
Hello Diane, whether antibiotics are effective as well as the choice of antibiotics both depend on the nature of the bacterial component of the bronchitis as well as the nature of the bronchitis. The age of your daughter and presence of any other medical conditions are also important considerations. The pencillin class of antibiotic medications can be most closely related to the cephalosporin and carbapenem classes. Separate classes of antibiotic medications that may be useful in specific cases of bacterial bronchitis include macrolides (like erythromycin, azithromycin or clarithromycin), quinolones (like moxifloxacin) and others like sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim. Discuss these options with the treating paediatrician or respiratory physician. Best wishes.

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