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Usual Adult Dose for Pneumonia. 500 mg orally 3 times a day or 875 mg orally twice a day may be administered for 7 to 10 days if pneumococcal pneumonia is suspected. Only mild pneumonia due to pneumococcus should be treated with amoxicillin.
Amoxicillin kills strep throat readily, and a 20 mg per kg, per day dosage should be sufficient. With more stubborn infections, such as ear infections, the 40 mg per kg is a standard dose. But whenever resistant bacteria are suspected, high dose treatment with 60 to 100 mg per kg per day might be best.