Minor ailments and conditions – summer calculation skills: answers

Joseph is 18 years old and attended a friend's party where he sustained a dog bite to his left hand, which was left untreated for 3 days. He presents today with an infected hand with redness, swelling, pain and a malodorous wound. You prescribe co-amoxiclav 250/125mg three times a day for 5 days. How many should be dispensed?

Sarah Jane is 12 years old and has just returned from a family holiday to Tenerife. She noticed itching and pain in her ear while swimming a few days ago and this worsened during the flight home. You diagnose acute otitis media without perforation or otorrhoea. Phenazone 40 mg/g with lidocaine 10 mg/g ear drops are prescribed. Assuming Sarah Jane administers 4 drops, three times a day, for 7 days in the affected ear, how many drops will have been used in total?

Marian, aged 62, is attending Glastonbury and she presents at the local pharmacy because of sustaining painful sunburn to her chest and shoulders the previous day. She purchases the following products: