210 Where There Is No Dentist 2012
INJECTIONS: FOR SEVERE INFECTIONS
It is always safer to take medicine by mouth.
Sometimes, however, an infection is so bad that
you need to give medicine by injection. Learn
how to give injections from an experienced
health worker. The injections described on this
page are not like the anesthetic injections in
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Chapter 9 of this book—you must inject these
3 ml syringe
medicines into a large muscle in the buttocks or
arm. For more instructions on this kind of injection,
see Chapter 9 (pages 65-74) of Where There Is No Doctor.
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For severe infection: There are 2 kinds of penicillin to inject.
You will usually use
‘aqueous procaine
penicillin’. Give only 1
injection per day.
For very severe infections, give
‘crystalline penicillin’ every
6 hours for the first day. It acts
quickly and for a short time only.
Proper Name
INJECTABLE MEDICINES
supplies
Amount you need Amount to
in 3 months
keep in kit
Adult
(over 40 kg)
DOSE
Child 6–12
years old
(22–39 kg)
Child 1–6
years old
(10–22 kg)
1. procaine
penicillin,
bottle with
300,000
Units per ml
2. crystalline
penicillin,
bottle with
1,000,000
Units per ml
200
bottles
50
bottles
4 bottles
4 ml
2 times/
day
2 ml
2 times/day
1 ml
2 times/day
1 bottle
3 ml
4 times/
day
1.5 ml
4 times/
day
1 ml
4 times/
day