AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question my friend took an expired rx of augmentin xr to treat what she thoght was strep throat. First, is augmentin xr even effective agaings strep, and second is it toxic? The script expired two years ago.
Answer Hi Vanessa,
Penicillin derivatives are often used to treat strept infections particularly of the throat. Augmentin contains a penicillin, amoxycillin along with clavlanic acid a beta lactamase inhibitor. If it has expired the drug will not be toxic, but may be less effective. On expiry most medications lose their potency and as a rule do not become toxic.
Ravi Ghooi
