Sumamed whooping cough used to kill the pathogen. It is considered an effective and safe drug, as relates to the macrolide-III generation. Therefore, an antibiotic with an antimicrobial property is allowed to be used to treat children as young as 6 months of age.
treatment protocol
If pertussis sick man, infectious disease prevention recommend spending the whole family within 15 days. This measure helps to completely eradicate the pathogen.
Development of whooping cough goes through four stages:
- The incubation period of the pathogen lasts no longer than 15 days;
- catarrhal - up to 2 weeks;
- spasmodic - dney─2 14 months;
- permitting - up to 30 days.
First 5─10 days helps with whooping cough antibiotic belonging to the macrolide group. In the second (spasmodic) period, you need to take medications to relieve symptoms of the disease and the destruction of its originator. The last stage is only symptomatic therapy.
If a person with whooping cough do not have a fever and temperature, it is required to spend more time outdoors. This will improve the ventilation of the lungs.
Efficacy in the treatment of pertussis
In the first half of the development of the disease are treated with antibiotics and drugs for pathogenetic therapy. Why doctors in catarrhal and spasmodic period prescribed Sumamed? Medicine is an antibiotic that belongs to the macrolide group of III generation. Its active substance - Azithromycin. This feature inhibits the vital functions of a large number of species of pathogenic microorganisms.
Azithromycin contributes to the destruction:
- palochkikoklyusha (Bordetella or Haemophilus pertussis);
- Staphylococcus aureus;
- pneumococcus;
- pyogenic streptococci;
- Haemophilus influenzae;
- gonorrhea;
- bacteria of the genus Legionella;
- chlamydia;
- mycoplasma;
- spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi;
- other sensitive to the active substance microorganisms.
Conclusion: Sumamed is a macrolide and an antibacterial agent. The medicine contains the latest generation of azithromycin substance that destroys H. pertussis. Therefore, it is effective in catarrhal and spasmodic period of illness. But the drug has no direct impact on the severity of pertussis symptoms. Cough and other pathologic features facilitate mucolytic, antihistamine or other means.
If necessary, the doctor in whooping cough in children Sumamed may be replaced by erythromycin. It is allowed to use a longer course, but also to use as an intramuscular injection.
Scheme therapy pertussis
The manual is no direct evidence that it is possible to treat pertussis sumamed. But the pathogen Bordetella pertussis is highly sensitive to azotrimitsinu.
The dosage of Sumamed in whooping cough, and the recommended treatment scheme:
- Children age category 6 mesyatsev─3 year. The suspension Sumamed first day given once at the rate of 0.5 ml / 1 kg or 10 mg / 1 kg body weight of the baby. Do not exceed the daily dose of azithromycin 500 mg! Then 4 days child is given half the initial volume of 5 mg / 1 kg body weight;
- Children age category 3 goda─12 years. On the first day give tablets Sumamed singly at the rate of 10 mg azithromycin / 1 kg of body weight, but not more than 500 mg. In the next 4 days daily dose is 5 mg of azithromycin per 1 kg of weight;
- Children older than 12 years with weight ≥45 kg and adults. The first tablet taken once a day Sumamed 500 mg, followed by 4 days of 250 mg.
Only a doctor should prescribe a daily dosage and course in the treatment of whooping cough. It takes into account contraindications Sumamed, features of the disease, presence of complications, comorbidities, the actual age and weight of the patient.
sources:
Vidal: https://www.vidal.ru/drugs/sumamed__786
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