Saturday 28 June 2014

Azithromycin otherwise known as Zythromax

Azithromycin

I was on this antibiotic off and on for one year. This is the one that worked the best for me. I had probably been on 10 different antibiotics over the course of four years. Azithromycin helped me get my energy back unlike any of the other antibiotics I had been on. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it:

(trade names Zithromax) is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of bacterial infections. It is an azalide, a subclass of macrolide antibiotic. It is derived from erythromycin, with a methyl-substituted nitrogen atom incorporated into the lactone ring, thus making the lactone ring 15-membered. Azithromycin is somewhat more potent against certain bacterial species than erythromycin, but its widespread popularity arises primarily from its slow elimination from the body, which allows many infections to be treated with 3-5 days of once-daily administration, compared to 3-4 times a day for up to 2 weeks for erythromycin.[1]
Azithromycin inhibits the growth of bacteria by interfering with their protein synthesis. It binds to the 50S subunit of the bacterial ribosome, and thus inhibits translation of mRNA.
This antibiotic is widely used alone or in combination with other drugs to treat[2] otitis media, pharyngitis, community-acquired respiratory infections (including pneumonia),[3] gastrointestinal infections[4] (such as those caused by eating contaminated food), and gonorrhea.[5]
It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, a list of the most important medication needed in a basic health system.[6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azithromycin
Azithromycin

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