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ZithromaxGeneric name: AZITHROMYCIN
Generic Zithromax (AZITHROMYCIN) is a macrolide antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections.
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Zithromax medicineDrug Uses
Zithromax is used to treat many different types of bacterial infections, such as bronchitis, pneumonia, tonsillitis, skin infections, ear infections, and sexually transmitted diseases.
How Taken
Zithromax comes as a capsule, tablet, and liquid to take it orally. It is usually taken once a day for 2-5 days. Take Zithromax exactly as directed. Do not take more or less of it or take it more often than prescribed by your doctor. Shake the liquid well before each use to mix the medication evenly. The capsules and tablets should be taken with a full glass of water. Continue to take Zithromax even if you feel well. Do not stop taking Zithromax without talking to your doctor. Take Zithromax liquid at least 1 hour before or 2 hours after meals. The capsule and tablet may be taken with or without food. If it upsets your stomach, take it with food.
Warnings/Precautions
Before taking Zithromax, tell your doctor if you have liver disease. You may not be able to take Zithromax, or you may require a lower dose or special monitoring during treatment.
Zithromax is in the FDA pregnancy category B. This means that it is not expected to harm an unborn baby. Do not take this medication without first talking to your doctor if you are pregnant or could become pregnant during treatment.
It is not known whether Zithromax passes into breast milk. Do not take this medication without first talking to your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby
Missed Dose
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember. However, if it is almost time for the next regularly scheduled dose, skip the missed dose and take the next one as directed. Do not take a double dose of this medication unless otherwise directed by your doctor.
Possible Side Effects
If you experience any of the following serious side effects, stop taking Zithromax and seek emergency medical attention: an allergic reaction (difficulty breathing; closing of the throat; swelling of the lips, tongue, or face; or hives); or liver damage (yellowing of the skin or eyes, nausea, abdominal pain or discomfort, unusual bleeding or bruising, severe fatigue).
Other, less serious side effects may be more likely to occur. Continue to take Zithromax and talk to your doctor if you experience nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain; unusual dizziness, fatigue, or headache; vaginal yeast infection; a rash; or increased sensitivity to sunlight.
Side effects other than those listed here may also occur. Talk to your doctor about any side effect that seems unusual or that is especially bothersome.
Storage
Zithromax tablets should be stored between 15° to 30° C (59° to 86°F).
Store constituted suspension between 5° to 30°C (41° to 86°F) and discard when full dosing is completed or within 10 days. Shake well before each use. Oversized bottle provides shake space. Keep tightly closed.
Overdose
Seek emergency medical attention. Symptoms of Zithromax overdose include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal discomfort.
More Information
Avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight. Zithromax may increase the sensitivity of the skin to sunlight. Use a sunscreen and wear protective clothing when exposure to the sun is unavoidable.
Zithromax (azithromycin) treatment of chronic bronchitis
Croatian scientists have conducted clinical research on the effectiveness of azithromycin (Zithromax) in the treatment of chronic inflammation of the bronchi in the acute stage. Specialists compared the results with the results that were obtained in earlier studies. In addition, all data were compiled on the subject. Total data were summarized twenty-one experience, which involved three and a half thousand patients with chronic bronchitis. Of this number of patients one thousand eight hundred patients were treated with azithromycin, while the remaining patients received other antimicrobial agents.
During the experiment, subjects received one and a half grams of the drug for three days in sixteen experiments, and for five days in five experiments.
According to the results of tests for ninety percent of patients taking the drug for three or five days, all symptoms are gone. In the control group in which patients were treated with other drugs to cure Eighty-eight percent of patients.
In the experimental group had side effects from twelve and a half percent of patients in the control group at twelve percent. Thus, we can conclude that the appropriate use of Zithromax (azithromycin) in the treatment of exacerbations of chronic bronchitis. In this case, we can say that the effectiveness of the drug is not too higher than that of other antibiotics.
Questions and answers about zithromax (azithromycin)
Q: Can azithromycin knock menstrual cycle?
I'm 21, I had poured a face pimples and for years did not pass, I turned to kozhven and my doctor has prescribed azithromycin, ANTIOXICAPS with zinc and ksantinola nicotinate. But before the menstrual cycle was not completely protected sexual intercourse, what are the chances of pregnancy or is it an antibiotic shot down cycle ???
A: Effect of azithromycin on the onset of menstruation was not studied, you should take a pregnancy test.
Q: Can I take Azithromycin is more than a week?
A: Normally, the maximum rate of treatment with this drug is 10 days, in particularly serious cases, it may designate a course of 14 days.
Q: Chronic sore throat?
Hello. I am 19 years old. Recently (1-1,5 years), I was often sick colds. Colds, coughs, fever, attacks the tonsils, Bolney red throat, large tonsils .. All this is happening, I have very often and if I do not take antibiotics (prescribed by a doctor - Azithromycin(zithromax)), my cold goes so far that no procedures in the clinic I myself have to neene threat. Tell me, is a chronic sore throat and how to cure?
A week ago I suffered from angina and took azithromycin (zithromax), cure, time has passed, now I'm sick again cold. Drink as often atibiotik I can not, because it is harmful. A lichitsya need! Why do you recommend? And there are some preventive measures so as not to hurt colds so often?
A: You need to see the ENT physician (otolaryngologist) for consultation. Perhaps, with such frequent relapses, the only effective treatment wakes tonsillectomy (removal of tonsils). Drug treatment includes adjuvants (immunal), rational modes of work, rest and nutrition.
Q :Antibiotic for your child?
Good day! Child 1,6. We treat a cough for more than 3 weeks to no avail. The doctor prescribed antibiotics azithromycin on 3,2 ml of 5 days. Do I need to give the child some additional drugs to support micro or vitamin C?
In this case, it is advisable to give your baby probiotics for the prevention of dysbiosis, for example, Latsidofil, 1 capsule 2 times a day - 10 days. The contents of the capsule can be given alone or with food. Take vitamin C is not necessary, it can be done after a course of antibiotics, to avoid causing additional allergization.
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