Very interesting!

We’ve had some interesting H. pylori eradication regimes prescribed recently. A one week course of a PPI, amoxicillin and clarithromycin is usually prescribed in our area and we have had a number of variations to the licensed combinations, for example:

• The correct dose of amoxicillin but not enough to last for a week.

• Too small a dose of PPI and the incorrect dosage of amoxicillin over a week.

• One lady who had had a flare up of a previous ulcer, had been for a blood test and then had been given a script for eradication therapy with no explanation as to why she was taking it. The dose of PPI was in excess of the licensed combination and the dose of amoxicillin was incorrect.