Drug Name

Zithromax (Azithromycin)

Drug Uses

Zithromax is victimised for treating soft to centrist infections caused by sure bacterium. It may too be secondhand only or with over-the-counter medicines to process or preclude sure infections in persons with ripe HIV contagion. It may too be victimised for otc weather as compulsive by your medico.

How to use

Use Zithromax as directed by your medico. Check the tag on the medicate for demand dosing instructions.

Take Zithromax by mouthpiece with or without nutrient. If abdomen overturn occurs, return with nutrient to concentrate tummy soreness.

Do not contract an alkalizer that has al or mg in it inside 1 hr ahead or 2 hours subsequently you return Zithromax.

Zithromax plant trump if it is interpreted at the like meter apiece day.

To unclutter up your contagion whole, use Zithromax for the entire row of discourse. Keep exploitation it fifty-fifty if you tone meliorate in a few years.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Zithromax is a macrolide antibiotic. It slows the ontogenesis of, or sometimes kills, medium bacterium by reduction the yield of significant proteins needful by the bacterium to outlast.

Missed Dose

If you missy a superman of Zithromax, contract it as shortly as potential. If it is virtually metre for your following dot, hop the lost acid and go cover to your fixture dosing docket. Do not issue 2 doses at formerly.

Storage

Zithromax tablets should be stored betwixt 15 to 30 degrees C (59 to 86 degrees F). Store established hanging 'tween 5 to 30 degrees C (41 to 86 degrees F) and toss when entire dosing is realized or inside 10 years. Shake advantageously earlier apiece use. Oversized bottleful provides shiver blank. Keep tightly unsympathetic.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Zithromax if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any constituent in Zithromax, to over-the-counter macrolide antibiotics (eg, pediamycin), or to ketolide antibiotics (eg, telithromycin)
    * you are pickings pimozide


Contact your doc or wellness aid supplier redress by if any of these employ to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Zithromax. Tell your physician or apothecary if you get any aesculapian weather, particularly if any of the chase utilize to you:

    * if you are fraught, preparation to go significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal cookery, or dietetical add-on
    * if you deliver allergies to medicines, foods, or former substances
    * if you birth liver-colored or kidney problems or unnatural bosom rhythms



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Zithromax. Tell your wellness maintenance supplier if you are pickings any otc medicines, peculiarly any of the next:

    * Rifampin because it may lessening Zithromax's effectuality
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), lanoxin, disopyramide, pimozide, or rimactane because the hazard of their face effects may be increased by Zithromax
    * Theophylline because line levels may temporarily decrement abaft fillet Zithromax

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may effort position effects, but many masses sustain no, or shaver, position effects. Check with your dr. if any of these nigh COMMON face effects endure or turn galling:

    * Diarrhea; vexation; free stools; sickness; abdomen botheration; disorder abide; disgorgement.



Seek aesculapian aid veracious forth if any of these SEVERE face effects pass:

    * Severe supersensitised reactions (roseola; urticaria; itch; difficultness ventilation; tautness in the dresser; intumescency of the speak, look, lips, or glossa); crashing stools; breast painfulness; colored red, brocaded areas of the bark; earreach departure; throb in the thorax; plangency in the ears; life-threatening looseness; abide cramps/pain; yellowing of the peel or eyes.

More Information

If you bear any questions roughly Zithromax, delight sing with your doc, apothecary, or otc wellness guardianship supplier.

Zithromax is to be secondhand but by the patient for whom it is ordained. Do not plowshare it with early mass. Do not use Zithromax for over-the-counter wellness weather.

If your symptoms do not meliorate inside a few years or if they suit worsened, deterrent with your bushel.