Can I take clindamycin 150mg for a gum infection every 5 hrs versus 6 hrs?
Ordinarily, drug questions should be answered only by your doctor who has evaluated you and prescribed the medications. However, this is an interesting general question that many people wonder about. When medications are prescribed to be taken more than once per day, it is because your body uses up the drug in some period of time and your doctor wants the medicine to be available all day so you respond optimally to the medication. In this case your doctor could have written to take the medicine 4 times per day or once every six hours. Your body does not stop using the medicine from pill #1 after six hours and start with pill #2, but rather it uses whatever is still in the bloodstream. If you take 4 pills in 24 hours but they are spaced 6 hours, 5 hours, 7 hours and 6 hours, this is just fine.
