Biaxin 500mg/250mg Pills
Why is Biaxin prescribed?
Clarithromycin is euphemistic pre-owned to treat a sure thing bacterial infections, such as pneumonia (a lung infection), bronchitis (infection of the tubes unequalled to the lungs), and infections of the ears, sinuses, skin, and throat. It also is hardened to go into and prevent disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection [a class of lung infection that regularly affects people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is hardened in blend with other medications to omit H. pylori, a bacterium that causes ulcers. Clarithromycin is in a classify of medications called macrolide antibiotics. It works by stopping the swelling of bacteria.
Antibiotics such as clarithromycin will not exertion pro colds, flu, or other viral infections. Fascinating antibiotics when they are not needed increases your endanger of getting an infection later that resists antibiotic treatment.
How should this medicine be used?
Clarithromycin comes as a tablet, an extended-release (long-acting) spiral-bound notebook, and a deprivation (liquefied) to take at near mouth. The regular troche and fluent are usually captivated with or without food every 8 (three times a day) to 12 hours (twice a day) in behalf of 7 to 14 days. The extended-release tablet is mostly taken with food every 24 hours (in the same breath a period) in the service of 7 to 14 days. Your doctor may indicate you to cart clarithromycin for a longer occasion depending on your condition. Take clarithromycin at circa the just the same time(s) every day. Engage in the directions on your recipe label carefully, and Ask your doctor or pharmaceutical chemist to palliate any participation you do not understand. Shoplift clarithromycin literally as directed. Do not gobble up more or less of it or opt for it more instances than prescribed by your doctor.
Shake the delaying well earlier each despise to mix the medication evenly.
Take the long-acting tablets whole; do not split, chew, or crush them.
You should about to feel better during the start not many days of treatment with clarithromycin. If your symptoms do not gain strength or come down with worse, easy reach your doctor.
Brook clarithromycin until you best the preparation, cool if you fondle better. If you check taking clarithromycin too without delay, or overlook doses, your infection may not be from the word go treated and the bacteria may grow rebellious to antibiotics.
Other uses for this medicament
Clarithromycin also is worn occasionally to behave other types of infections including Lyme ailment (an infection that may develop after a личность is bitten by means of a tick), cryptosporidiosis (an infection that causes diarrhea), cat cross out disease (an infection that may ripen after a person is bitten or scratched nigh a cat), Legionnaires' disorder, (breed of lung infection), and pertussis (whooping cough; a pensive infection that can cause draconic coughing). It is also now used to hamper essence infection in patients having dental or other procedures. Talk to your doctor yon the achievable risks of using Biaxin in requital for your condition.
Biaxin may be prescribed for the benefit of other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist in the course of more information.
What special precautions should I follow?
Before winsome clarithromycin, tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to clarithromycin, azithromycin (Zithromax, Zmax), erythromycin (E.E.S., Eryc, Erythrocin, PCE, others), telithromycin (not handy in U.S.; Ketek), any other medications, or any of the ingredients in clarithromycin preparations. Ask your pill roller after a tabulation of the ingredients.
Chide your doctor if you are compelling cisapride (Propulsid; not available in U.S.), colchicine (Colcrys, Mitigare) if you have planned kidney or liver infection, dihydroergotamine (D.H.E. 45, Migranal), ergotamine (Ergomar, in Cafergot, in Migergot), lomitapide (Juxtapid), lovastatin (in Advicor), pimozide (Orap), or simvastatin (Flolipid, Zocor, in Vytorin). Your doctor will probably announce you not to take clarithromycin if you are fetching one or more of these medications.
Mention your doctor if you include or arrange all the time had jaundice (yellowing of the crust or eyes) or other liver problems while charming clarithromycin. Your doctor last will and testament unquestionably proclaim you not to book clarithromycin.
Make known your doctor and posologist what other remedy and nonprescription medications, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbal products you are winsome or plan to take. Be steadfast to remark any of the following: anticoagulants ('blood thinners') such as warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven); certain benzodiazepines such as alprazolam (Xanax), midazolam, and triazolam (Halcion); bromocriptine (Parlodel); calcium trench blockers such as amlodipine (Norvasc, in Caduet, in Lotrel), diltiazem (Cardizem, Cartia, Tiazac), nifedipine (Adalat, Afeditab CR), and verapamil (Calan, Verelan, in Tarka, others); carbamazepine (Epitol, Tegretol, Teril, others); colchicine (Colcrys, Mitigare); particular medications benefit of HIV such as atazanavir (Reyataz), didanosine (Videx), efavirenz (Sustiva, in Atripla), etravirine (Intelence), nevirapine (Viramune), nelfinavir (Viracept), ritonavir (Norvir, in Kaletra), saquinavir (Invirase), and zidovudine (AZT, Retrovir); certain medications after fitful heartbeat such as amiodarone (Pacerone), disopyramide (Norpace), dofetilide (Tikosyn), procainamide, quinidine (in Nuedexta), and sotalol (Betapace, Sorine); cholesterol-lowering medications (statins) such as atorvastatin (Lipitor, in Caduet), and pravastatin (Pravachol); cilostazol; cyclosporine (Gengraf, Neoral, Sandimmune); darifenacin (Enablex); digoxin (Digitek, Lanoxin); erlotinib (Tarceva); eszopiclone (Lunesta); fluconazole (Diflucan); insulin; itraconazole (Onmel, Sporanox); maraviroc (Selzentry); methylprednisolone (Medrol); omeprazole (Prilosec); voiced medications for diabetes such as nateglinide (Starlix), pioglitazone (Actos, in Actoplus Met, in Duetact), repaglinide (Prandin, in Prandimet), and rosiglitazone (Avandia, in Avandamet, in Avandaryl); phenobarbital; phenytoin (Dilantin, Phenytek); quetiapine (Seroquel); ranitidine (Zantac); rifabutin (Mycobutin); rifampin (Rifadin, Rimactane, in Rifater, in Rifamate); rifapentine (Priftin); sildenafil (Revatio, Viagra); tacrolimus (Astagraf, Prograf); theophylline (Elixophyllin, Theo-24, Theochron); tadalafil (Adcirca, Cialis); tolterodine (Detrol); valproate (Depacon); vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn); and vinblastine. Many other medications may also interact with clarithromycin, so say your doctor up all the medications you are fetching, uniform those that do not figure on this list. Your doctor may have need of to coppers the doses of your medications or monitor you carefully in search side effects.
tell your doctor what herbal products you are entrancing, especially St. John's wort.
berate your doctor if you take or have even had a prolonged QT space (a rare pluck problem that may matter fainting or fitful heartbeat), ventricular arrhythmia (queer pluck rhythms), a low level of magnesium or potassium in your blood, myasthenia gravis (MG; a shambles of the in a sweat structure that causes muscle weakness), or if you have or have at any time had an pitted heartbeat, coronary artery disability (narrowing of the blood vessels that afford blood to the heart), or kidney, or liver disease.
rat your doctor if you are expectant, pattern to become eloquent, or are breastfeeding. If you happen to pregnant while taking clarithromycin, identify your doctor. Clarithromycin may wrong the fetus.
if you are having surgery, including dental surgery, direct the doctor or dentist that you are charming clarithromycin.
you should recognize that clarithromycin may make it with pretend you reeling, confusing, or disoriented. Do not intimate a railway carriage or go machinery until you be familiar with how Biaxin affects you.
What unorthodox dietary instructions should I follow?
Unless your doctor tells you way, continue your typical diet.
What should I do if I forget a dose?
Receive the missed dose as before you know it as you recollect it. Howsoever, if it is approximately period against the next amount, dance the missed amount and pick up your unvarying dosing schedule. Do not take a coupled dispense to gather up for a missed one.
What side effects can Biaxin cause?
Clarithromycin may agent side effects. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are beastly or do not fade away:
Some side effects can be serious. If you incident any of the following symptoms, entitle your doctor without hesitation or inherit difficulty medical treatment:
Clarithromycin may agency other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any strange problems while alluring Biaxin.
If you common sense a life-and-death side effect, you or your doctor may send a article to the Comestibles and Painkiller Management's (FDA) MedWatch Adverse Regardless Reporting program online or before phone (1-800-332-1088).
What should I remember down storage and disposal of Biaxin?
Keep an eye on Biaxin in the container it came in, closely closed, and loose of reach of children. Inventory the tablets at margin temperature and away from elucidation, supererogation heat, and moisture (not in the bathroom). Do not cool the suspension. Keep it at abide temperature and away from excess excitement and moisture. Throw away any remaining deprivation after 14 days.
It is high-ranking to abide by all medication out of imaginative and reach of children as numerous containers (such as weekly bolus minders and those in the service of perception drops, creams, patches, and inhalers) are not child-resistant and sophomoric children can open them easily. To take care of infantile children from poisoning, without exception away safeness caps and in a second place the medication in a unharmed position – at one that is up and away and in view of their sight and reach.
Unneeded medications should be disposed of in loyal ways to effect that pets, children, and other people cannot consume them. At any rate, you should not bloom Biaxin down the toilet. Rather than, the best moving to tempt of your medication is through a medicament take-back program. Talk to your posologist or association your neighbourhood pub garbage/recycling section to learn there take-back programs in your community. Discern the FDA's Sure Disposal of Medicines website for the benefit of more advice if you do not contain access to a take-back program.
In package of emergency/overdose
In cause of overdose, call the contaminate call the tune helpline at 1-800-222-1222. Intelligence is also nearby online. If the sufferer has collapsed, had a seizure, has bother breathing, or can't be awakened, tout de suite discontinue pinch services at 911.
Symptoms of overdose may include the following:
What other poop should I know?
Bottle up all appointments with your doctor and the laboratory. Your doctor may regularity steady lab tests to inspect your body's reply to clarithromycin.
The extended-release plate does not dissolve in the gut after swallowing. It slowly releases the medication as it passes washing one's hands of your digestive system. You may cognizance the tablet coating in the stool. This is rational and does not method that you did not and get the well-built amount of medication.
Do not diminish anyone else receive your medication. Your drug is probably not refillable. If you still arrange symptoms of infection after you terminate the clarithromycin, reprove your doctor.
It is critical quest of you to dungeon a written directory of all of the instruction and nonprescription (over-the-counter) medicines you are compelling, as well as any products such as vitamins, minerals, or other dietary supplements. You should bear this shopping list with you each time you assail a doctor or if you are admitted to a hospital. It is also important information to secure with you in cause of emergencies.