Learn About Azithromycin

Precautions To Remember

Get ready to talk about your medical history, ladies! Your doctor has to know if you have dealt with liver problems, kidney disease, or jaundice. Heart health, including heart failure, an irregular heartbeat, and similar, is important too! Knowing this information allows your doctor to figure out if azithromycin is safe for you to take!

Ladies, you also need to know about the sun and this antibiotic. It makes you more sensitive to the sun! So you'll want to avoid the sun when you can. And when this isn't possible? Make sure to wear lots of sunscreen and reapply it regularly! Wearing protective clothes is an amazing idea as well.

Medication Interactions

Medication interactions are essential to consider when you're going to start taking anything new. Ladies, this is why you have to have a list of all your current meds! The list has to have prescription meds on it, of course, but also over-the-counter ones. Vitamins and herbal supplements should be on it too! Your doctor will check it so you can avoid interactions. The pharmacist will do it too, if you ask!

With azithromycin, you have about 300 potential medication interactions to check and avoid! Expect over 60 major interactions out of these 300. One example is with blood thinners like warfarin. Even Aspirin can interact with this antibiotic! Ladies, do you take antacids? If so, you'll need to watch them if you need azithromycin too. Check the ingredient list. Does your antacid have either magnesium or calcium? If yes, take it at least 2 hours before or after taking azithromycin.