Neomycin sulfate tablets

Neomycin sulfate is given in a dose of 292 mg/m2 orally for infants as well as children for preoperative bowel sterilization. If it is given every four hours for three days, how many tablets of the available strength (350 mg/tablet) should be dispensed to a child with a body surface area of 1.2 m2 ... 

Ethyl vanillin is unstable in contact with iron or steel forming a red-colored, flavorless compound. In aqueous media with neomycin sulfate or succinylsulfathiazole, tablets of ethyl vanillin produced a yellow color. See Vanillin for other potential incompatibilities. 

Neomycin sulfate is an aminoglycoside antibiotic that inhibits production of protein in bacteria, causing bacterial cell death. It is used as adjunctive treatment for suppression of normal bacterial flora of the bowel (tablet) and as adjunctive therapy in hepatic coma to reduce ammoniaforming bacteria in the intestinal tract (tablet and solution). 

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