Description
Azithromycin belongs to a group of medicines called macrolide antibiotics. Antibiotics are used to treat infections
caused by micro-organisms like bacteria. Azithromycin is used for the treatment of certain infections caused by bacteria that are sensitive to it, such as Travellers’ diarrhoea.
Uses / Instructions
Take ONE tablets daily for 3 days
Warnings
Talk with your doctor or pharmacist before taking Azithromycin if:
- you have severe liver or kidney problems
- you have severe heart problems or problems with your heart beat such as long QT syndrome (shown on an electro-cardiogram or ECG machine)
- your blood levels of potassium or magnesium are too low
- you develop signs of another infection
- you are taking any ergot derivatives such as ergotamine (to treat migraine) as these medicines should not be taken together with Azithromycin
- you have a certain type of muscle weakness called myasthenia gravis
- you have nervous (neurological) or mental (psychiatric) problems.
Side Effects
Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
Very common (may affect more than 1 in 10 people)
• diarrhoea
Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people)
• headache
• being sick (vomiting), stomach pain or cramps, loss of appetite
• change in the quantity of the white blood cells and the concentration of bicarbonate in the blood.
See patient information leaflet for a full list of side effects.
Ingredients
The active substance is azithromycin dihydrate.
Each film-coated tablet contains 250 mg of azithromycin (as dihydrate).
The other ingredients are
Tablet core:
Calcium hydrogen phosphate, anhydrous, starch, pregelatinized (maize starch), croscarmellose sodium, sodium lauryl sulfate, magnesium stearate.
Tablet coating:
Lactose monohydrate, hypromellose, titanium dioxide (E 171), triacetin.
See patient information leaflet of the pack you receive as different brands have different other ingredients.
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