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What is the difference between cephalexin and amoxycillin? what are they used for?

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Different Antibiotic: Amoxicillin is an antibiotic in penicillin class and Cephalexin is a cephalosporin class antibiotic these are both antibiotics and use to treat various infections if and when indicated and available in us by prescription only.

Answered 1/5/2018

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What to do if I am deathly afraid of vomiting so if I am okay with amoxicillin and cephalexin will I be okay taking z-pak (aka zithromax)?

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So I had a UTI. amoxicillin 10 days. Didn't work. Went to ER bc of lots of blood & kidney pain. Now 6 days on cephalexin. When does back pain go away?

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