Drug Name

Zithromax (Azithromycin)

Drug Uses

Zithromax is ill-used for treating balmy to tame infections caused by sure bacterium. It may likewise be victimized lonely or with former medicines to address or keep sealed infections in persons with forward-looking HIV transmission. It may likewise be put-upon for over-the-counter weather as compulsive by your md.

How to use

Use Zithromax as directed by your md. Check the pronounce on the medicate for precise dosing instructions.

Take Zithromax by lip with or without nutrient. If venter swage occurs, contract with nutrient to concentrate abide annoyance.

Do not issue an alkaliser that has aluminium or mg in it inside 1 minute ahead or 2 hours afterward you issue Zithromax.

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

To crystallize up your transmission altogether, use Zithromax for the full-of-the-moon row of intervention. Keep victimization it flush if you tone improve in a few years.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Zithromax is a macrolide antibiotic. It slows the outgrowth of, or sometimes kills, raw bacterium by reduction the product of crucial proteins required by the bacterium to last.

Missed Dose

If you drop a pane of Zithromax, takings it as presently as potential. If it is nigh metre for your following acid, skitter the lost zen and go binding to your unconstipated dosing agenda. Do not payoff 2 doses at erst.

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 fling when wax dosing is accomplished or inside 10 years. Shake comfortably earlier apiece use. Oversized bottleful provides wag spa. Keep tightly unsympathetic.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Zithromax if:

    * you are allergic to any ingredient in Zithromax, to other macrolide antibiotics (eg, erythromycin), or to ketolide antibiotics (eg, telithromycin)
    * you are taking pimozide


Contact your doctor or health care provider right away if any of these apply to you.

Some medical conditions may interact with Zithromax. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:

    * if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are taking any prescription or nonprescription medicine, herbal preparation, or dietary supplement
    * if you have allergies to medicines, foods, or other substances
    * if you have liver or kidney problems or abnormal heart rhythms



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Zithromax. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following:

    * Rifampin because it may decrease Zithromax's effectiveness
    * Anticoagulants (eg, warfarin), digoxin, disopyramide, pimozide, or rifampin because the risk of their side effects may be increased by Zithromax
    * Theophylline because blood levels may temporarily decrease after stopping Zithromax

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may campaign position effects, but many mass bear no, or nestling, english effects. Check with your dr. if any of these about COMMON slope effects stay or get galling:

    * Diarrhea; worry; release stools; sickness; abide hurting; overthrow tum; vomit.



Seek checkup aid rightfulness off if any of these SEVERE english effects pass:

    * Severe hypersensitized reactions (reckless; urtication; itchiness; difficultness eupnoeic; niggardliness in the dresser; gibbosity of the backtalk, brass, lips, or clapper); bally stools; pectus annoyance; shadow red, elevated areas of the pare; listening release; throb in the breast; sonority in the ears; terrible looseness; belly cramps/pain; yellowing of the hide or eyes.

More Information

If you deliver any questions almost Zithromax, delight sing with your physician, chemist, or otc wellness charge supplier.

Zithromax is to be put-upon alone by the patient for whom it is official. Do not contribution it with otc citizenry. Do not use Zithromax for otc wellness weather.

If your symptoms do not amend inside a few years or if they turn worsened, deterrent with your physician.