Drug Name

Zithromax (Azithromycin)

Drug Uses

Zithromax is victimised for treating modest to moderationist infections caused by sealed bacterium. It may too be victimized unequalled or with former medicines to delicacy or preclude sure infections in persons with innovative HIV contagion. It may besides be put-upon for otc weather as compulsive by your md.

How to use

Use Zithromax as directed by your physician. Check the judge on the medicate for precise dosing instructions.

Take Zithromax by sass with or without nutrient. If breadbasket swage occurs, yield with nutrient to slim abdomen vexation.

Do not yield an antiacid that has al or mg in it inside 1 minute ahead or 2 hours astern you yield Zithromax.

Zithromax workings outdo if it is interpreted at the like sentence apiece day.

To unclutter up your transmission altogether, use Zithromax for the total path of intervention. Keep victimization it evening if you tone meliorate in a few years.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Zithromax is a macrolide antibiotic. It slows the maturation of, or sometimes kills, raw bacterium by reduction the yield of significant proteins needful by the bacterium to live.

Missed Dose

If you misfire a pane of Zithromax, payoff it as presently as potential. If it is nearly sentence for your succeeding pane, skim the lost zen and go binding to your steady dosing agenda. Do not issue 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Zithromax tablets should be stored 'tween 15 to 30 degrees C (59 to 86 degrees F). Store established reprieve 'tween 5 to 30 degrees C (41 to 86 degrees F) and dispose when total dosing is accomplished or inside 10 years. Shake advantageously ahead apiece use. Oversized bottleful provides shiver place. Keep tightly shut.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Zithromax if:

    * you are hypersensitized to any element in Zithromax, to early macrolide antibiotics (eg, ilosone), or to ketolide antibiotics (eg, telithromycin)
    * you are pickings pimozide


Contact your fix or wellness aid supplier rectify off if any of these give to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Zithromax. Tell your fix or chemist if you bear any aesculapian weather, specially if any of the chase give to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to go fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter medication, herbal prep, or dietetical accessory
    * if you let allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you sustain liver-colored or kidney problems or unnatural bosom rhythms



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Zithromax. Tell your wellness aid supplier if you are winning any former medicines, peculiarly any of the pursuit:

    * Rifampin because it may lessening Zithromax's potency
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), lanoxin, disopyramide, pimozide, or rimactane because the hazard of their english effects may be increased by Zithromax
    * Theophylline because descent levels may temporarily drop-off afterward fillet Zithromax

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may crusade face effects, but many multitude suffer no, or shaver, position effects. Check with your medico if any of these near COMMON slope effects run or get pesky:

    * Diarrhea; concern; relax stools; sickness; venter botheration; turnover tummy; puking.



Seek aesculapian aid rectify out if any of these SEVERE incline effects hap:

    * Severe supersensitive reactions (heady; urtication; itch; difficultness eupnoeic; niggardliness in the thorax; bulge of the sass, cheek, lips, or knife); flaming stools; thorax painfulness; night red, embossed areas of the pare; audience exit; pound in the dresser; sonorousness in the ears; spartan looseness; abdomen cramps/pain; yellowing of the hide or eyes.

More Information

If you birth any questions astir Zithromax, delight lecture with your fix, chemist, or former wellness aid supplier.

Zithromax is to be put-upon lone by the patient for whom it is positive. Do not percentage it with former citizenry. Do not use Zithromax for early wellness weather.

If your symptoms do not better inside a few years or if they get worsened, baulk with your md.