Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Health & Healthcare => Topic started by: charlste on August 27, 2012, 15:11:30 PM
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I might need to buy some Amoxicillin when i am next in calis.Can i buy these over the counter and does anybody know how much they cost.
I am bringing some out with me but the doctors here will only prescribe one course for me and i am coming out for a few months.
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Yes you can get them over the counter. The last time we bought some they cost about 15TL for a week's supply.
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Hi Chariste, I can recommend the Largopen 500 mg. course
16 tablets for 6tl. available at all chemists. (amoksisilin). :)
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we buy Amoxil 500mg 16 tablets - last year cost around 6ytl per course
we have found that a good and reasonably proced chemist (ecksane) is one on the Gunlukbasi Road. If you face Seckin restaurant it is the first one looking to the left of Seckin - about 20-30 metres away from Seckin.
If you write down the english name they check the Turkish name on a computer for you - i do not know if others have the same service but we have certainly found this useful
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Can someone tell me please I have the Largopen (Amoksisilin) tablets here sound like the same ones Frank Stanley mentioned but mine say 1g on them would that be the equvilant to 500mg does anyone know, I have a bad chest infection and have just finished a course of English amoxisilin and whilst they have done some good it has not cleared up totally so I was going to carry on with my Turkish tablets just a bit unsure as to how many of them to take safely... many thanks as always for any help :)
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Hi Karen, 1g is 1000mg so you only take one per day. Hope this helps. :)
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check a conversion table.... 500mg is half of 1 gm
you need to check the strength of the medication you have taken before
Be very careful NOT to take TOO strong a dose ;)
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thanks very much for replies I think I will cut them in half as they are rather on the large side and hopefully that will be ok :)
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It is possible to cut the 1g tablets in half to make two 500mg tablets[- you could then take half in the morning and half at night.
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That is what I have done Marrgie though I am only going to take 500 mg as 1000mg sounds an awful lot!!! :)I dont ever remember being prescribed that amount in the UK :D
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Karen, in the UK the maximum dosage is usually 250mg two or three times a day. Here they hand out antibiotics at high dosage as a matter of course.
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You really shouldn't buy medication without it being prescribed, if you over use anti biotics especially Penicillin you can develop resistant and they won't work when you really need them.
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that is the dosage I was prescribed Marrgie and I kind of knew that 5 days would not be enough... fingers crossed by carrying on a few more days with the ones from Turkey it will clear up, meant to be having an operation one week today so really important that I get my chest cleared up but at the moment the surgery is looking unlikely :(
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Hope they do the trick Karen so your surgery can go ahead. Good Luck.
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Usual Adult Dose for Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
250 to 500 mg orally 3 times a day for 7 to 10 days; alternatively, 500 to 875 mg orally twice a day may be administered
Re Amoxil, Dose does vary according to the problem, but you would not usually be prescribed 1g for common ailments, 500mg should be taken 8 hourly.
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Thank you Marrgie and Angela have just stuffed another half a one in so that should be 500 ml of a Turkish one I think!!! :)