Often, in infectious diseases designate means with the active ingredient azithromycin. Sumamed the usefulness of the drug for colds or flu estimates only doctor. Because these diseases can develop for a reason that can not eliminate the effect of the antibiotic.
Sumamed the flu or a cold
Sumamed is antimicrobial and azalide macrolide III generation. Its action is aimed at the suppression of vital activity of a wide range of pathogens, unstable to azithromycin. Among them the number of staphylococci, gonococci, streptococci, pneumococci, spirochetes, legionely, chlamydia and mycoplasma.
Direct indication for Sumamed - treatment of pathologies of the respiratory and urinary tract, soft tissues, skin, caused by susceptible microorganisms to the antibiotic. ARI ARI or can develop when a person infected with different types of infections.
The main cause of the common cold or flu is:
- RSV (respiratory syncytial virus);
- rhinovirus;
- coronavirus;
- influenza viruses type A, B, C or combinations thereof;
- supercooling and reduction of immunity, whereby the activated conditional pathogenic microflora of humans.
Azithromycin has no effect on the viruses. In the case of a cold or the flu complex Sumamed used if they are mixed provoked infection, or the patient develops a complication with the presence of pathogenic bacteria and other microorganisms.
Treatment with Sumamed the flu or a cold
With the development of the common cold or flu the first three days it is recommended to use antiviral drugs, lemons and honey, broth hips, lime tea with raspberries. In addition, doctors will prescribe medication for symptomatic treatment. It antipyretic medicine, means to eliminate nasal congestion, headache, and other symptoms of the disease. Sumamed treatment of colds and flu during this period only inhibits the human immune system as azithromycin does not kill viruses.
If within the first 3 days the temperature does not tend to decrease or there were other signs that indicate the development of complications, doctors recommend antibiotics. Effective Sumamed under such consequences ARI ARI as a sore throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, otitis media and other infectious and inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system.
To determine the resistance of pathogens is carried out on a sample of the sensitivity of the selected pathogen to various antibiotics. Results of the analysis will be ready no sooner than 36 hours after sampling of biological material, smear. Therefore, the patient may subsequently assign medicine with a different active substance.
Recommended in the instructions dose acute respiratory infections, SARS and complications:
- Children older than 12 years and adults take Sumamed 1 time a day at 500 mg for three days;
- Children weighing less than 45 kg. Medicine taken once a day for three days in a row. Prolonged cough, flu complications or other cold babies aged 6 months to 3 years, a dosage calculated by the circuit 10 mg of azithromycin or 0.5 ml of suspension per 1 kg of body weight. If the mass of the child corresponds 18─30 kg antibiotic given in the amount of 250 mg / day. At a higher dose increased the weight to 375 mg / day.
With prolonged use Sumamed some types of bacteria develop resistance to azithromycin. Therefore, if there is no tendency to the attenuation of symptoms, doctors refer patients to re-conduct tests of resistance to the antibiotic a pathogen. After receiving the results may continue to treat sumamed, an analogue or a drug from other pharmacological groups.
sources:
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