What conditions can erythromycin treat?

Erythromycin is a common antibiotic drug, which has a good antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect, and is mainly used to make eye ointment for diseases caused by eye infections such as conjunctivitis.

Erythromycin can cause eye inflammation and acne on the face, and it has a good anti-inflammatory effect on this disease. It's much easier to use than those expensive drugs.

Erythromycin belongs to antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs. Some people will use roxithromycin, penicillin allergy, erythromycin can also cause allergies. But now the state has begun to restrict or ban it.

Erythromycin can be used for purulent ** diseases such as impetigo, small burns (minor burns (° or shallow °), infections of the ulcer surface, and acne vulgaris.

Erythromycin ointment can be used for trachoma, conjunctivitis, blepharitis, and extraocular infections, but erythromycin ointment should not be used for eye infections.

Acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, sinusitis; scarlet fever, cellulitis; diphtheria and diphtheria carriers; Gas gangrene, anthrax. Erythromycin oral dosage forms, such as enteric-coated tablets and enteric-coated capsules, can be used as an alternative drug for the following infections in penicillin-allergic patients**: acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, sinusitis caused by hemolytic streptococcus, pneumoniae streptococcus, etc.; scarlet fever and cellulitis caused by hemolytic streptococcus; diphtheria and diphtheria delicate attack carriers; gas gangrene, anthrax, tetanus; Actinomycosis; Syphilis; Listeriosis, etc., Legionnaires' disease, Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumoniae, Chlamydia pneumoniae pneumonia, Genitourinary infections caused by other chlamydia and mycoplasma genitalia, Chlamydia trachomatis conjunctivitis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection, oral infections caused by anaerobic bacteria, Campylobacter jejuni enteritis, whooping cough.

Erythromycin (containing erythromycin, etoerythromycin, erythromycin lactobionate) and other macrolides are used

1) As an alternative drug for penicillin-allergic patients for the following infections: upper and lower respiratory tract infections caused by sensitive strains in hemolytic streptococcus and pneumococcus; susceptibility to scarlet fever and cellulitis caused by hemolytic streptococcus; diphtheria and diphtheria carriers;

2) Legionnaires' disease.

3) Respiratory tract and genitourinary system infections caused by chlamydia, mycoplasma, etc.

4) Others: oral infection, Campylobacter jejuni enteritis, whooping cough, etc.

Medimycin, spiramycin, acetylspiramycin and crosssamycin are mainly used for mild patients with respiratory tract, soft tissue, eye, ear, nose and throat and oral infections caused by gram-positive bacteria.

New varieties of macrolides: In addition to the above indications, azithromycin can be used for Legionnaires' disease, azithromycin and clarithromycin can also be used for community-acquired respiratory tract infections caused by Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis, and combined with other antibacterial drugs for the prevention of Mycobacterium avium complex group infection. Clarithromycin, in combination with other drugs, can be used for Helicobacter pylori infection.

2. Precautions.

1.It is contraindicated in patients with erythromycin and other macrolide allergies.

2.Erythromycin and clarithromycin are contraindicated in combination with terfenadine to avoid adverse cardiac reactions.

3.Patients with hepatic impairment should be appropriately reduced and rechecked regularly if their use is indicated.

4.Patients with liver disease and pregnancy should not be treated with erythromycin esterification.

5.When clarithromycin is clearly indicated in pregnant patients, the pros and cons should be fully weighed before deciding whether to use it. Breastfeeding patients should be suspended while taking the drug.

6.When erythromycin lactobionate powder is used, it must first be completely dissolved in water for injection, added to normal saline or 5% glucose solution, and the drug concentration should not be exceeded, and it should be slowly instilled intravenously.

Erythromycin is a representative antimicrobial of the macrolide line produced by Streptomyces erythromycin. It is suitable for mycoplasma pneumonia, neonatal conjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, infantile pneumonia, genitourinary tract infection (including non-gonococcal urethritis), legionnaires' disease, diphtheria (adjuvant **) and diphtheria carriers, **soft tissue infection, whooping cough, respiratory tract infections (including pneumonia) caused by sensitive bacteria (influenza bacillus, pneumococcus, hemolytic streptococcus, staphylococcus, etc.), streptococcal angina, Listerella infection, long-term prevention of rheumatic fever and prevention of endocarditis, Campylobacter jejuni enteritis, as well as gonorrhea, syphilis, acne, etc.