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You have to give loading dose of one gram of azithromycin. To be fallowed by 500 mg twice a day for seven days on empty stomach. Azithromycin has got rather long half life and should always be given with loading dose.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoYou give loading dose of one gram, fallowed by 500 mg BID for next seven days. Azithromycin should always be given in loading dose, for it has got, rather long half life.
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What is acute typhoid?
Acute typhoid is very uncommon. But then it is possible to have acute typhoid, when patient gets the loading dose of the bacteria. Usually the fever is paratyphoid fever in such cases.
Can you take cefixime 400 mg with azithromycin 1000 mg in typhoid?
No. The correct dose of cifixime and azithromycine is 200+500 in combination which will give synergistic effect. The dose of this combination is 1 times in a day... No need to twice in a day. It may causes overdose problem.
Which medication is used in the form of powder to cure chlamydia?
Azithromycin powder in a 1g dose is sometimes used to treat chlamydia.
Does azithromycin cure chlamydia?
Both medications are listed by the CDC for treatment of chlamydia. Doxycycline used to be cheaper, and azithromycin easier to take, but since the 2013 doxycycline shortage started, azithromycin is both cheaper and easier.
What is the fastest cure for chlamydia?
Whether you take single-dose treatment or seven-day treatment, it will be seven days before you can consider yourself cured. Even though you take just one dose of azithromycin to cure chlamydia, it needs seven days to eliminate all bacteria.
Is there any cure for scarlet-fever?
Scarlet fever is caused by an infection that was not treated in an earlier stage. It requires a larger dose of antibiotics than if the infection were caught sooner.
What are the treatments for typhoid fever?
Ciprofloxacin 750 mg twice a day for 10 to 14 days is drug of choice for typhoid fever. Alternately you can give injection ceftriaxone. Cefuroxime and cefixime can be given by mouth, when fever comes to normal. You can use chloramphenicol 4 grams per day. High dose of ampicillin or amoxicillin can be given, up to 4 grams per day. You can give cotrimoxazole also.
How do you read widal test?
Isolated Widal test reading does not have much clinical significance. Rising titre of Widal test done one week apart, in a febrile patient, indicates typhoid fever. You can have such rising titre of Widal test in healthy patient, after dose of typhoid vaccine.
Will alcohol affect the one dose azithromycn?
Azithromycin is an antibiotic and does not have an impairment factor to your nervous system. Alcohol alone will impair you as normal, but will not change the effects of azithromycin.
What do men take for chlamydia?
In the US, typically azithromycin or doxycycline, same as for women.
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