electrolytes
Treatment would include antibiotics to get rid of infection. Cough medication to give your lungs a rest and allow them to clear. Pain relief because you need to have pain under control so that you can rest. Possible steroids to reduce inflammation. The doctor would order intravenous antifungal medications and consider having surgical debridement. This involves cutting away all infected tissue. By doing the surgery it prevents infection from spreading. These antibiotics of choice are:
- amphotericin B (given through an IV)- Concerns of nephrotoxity. Must monitor renal functions closely, as well as electrolytes
- Posaconazole- (given through an IV or orally)- triazole antibiotic and can be used as the step down antibotic from amphotericin B.
- isavuconazole (given through an IV or orally)- wide spectrum triazole fungal antibiotic
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