Is azithromycin in the penicillin family
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Thanks again for your help! I will give the Cephalexin a try and if that doesn't work, I'll TRY to get the dentist to give me the Azithromycin. It is so nice to come here and have caring people help! Thank you so much!
Should i change to azithromycin and stop the doxycycline regime, or just stay with doxycycline? Which is the right choice of drug ? By the way , the first doctor also suggested taking doxycycline & at the same time getting treated with penicillin injection daily for 1 week, will this be effective or too much at once?
I tested positive for Gonorrhea of the throat today. I’m allergic to Penicillin and Doxy, so my doctor decided that 2 tablets of Azithromycin 500mg totalling to 1000mg was enough. However, online along with my local lgbt center say that I was not fully treated. Is this correct? I’m really stressed and upset, so I don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve already taken the prescribed Azithromycin, and my Doctor asked for me to return for retesting in 10 days.
Oh and its really helpful if you can keep all your posts to one thread, so we don't have to keep checking other threads for your history.
It makes sense that ampicillin, amoxicillin, or any others in the penicillin family could treat syphilis (being that penicillin is the recommended treatment). I only asked for the source of the info because I wanted to know if they were somehow less effective treatments than regular old penicillin. Thanks again!
penicillin is the preferred treatment and you should get the shots you need of it. you don't want to have syphilis go unproperly treated!
1）I took some Penicillin,Azithromycin and Cephalosporin discontinuously during the 8 weeks,does it affect the TP-ELISA result for syphilis testing ?
2) i mean，can i preclude the possibility of syphilis infection for the 8 weeks of the TP-ELISA test results ?
thanks for helping me !
In patients allergic to beta-lactams, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim), clarithromycin (Biaxin), and azithromycin. So, if you are allergic to the penicillin group your doctor could have prescribed Bactrim for you. Regards.
A day after starting treatment a few red spots appeared under the skin on his hands (both hands, 3/4 sports clustered together). The skin is not broken, the spots are under the skin. They have also started to fade away after a day. We asume these are a syphilis rash.
Since the skin is not broken, are these red spots contagious? Can I get syphilis from shaking his hand? What about from hugging him?
Tests for M. genitalium are variable in their accuracy. Further however, azithromycin is the recommended therapy for M.g.
3. See above. It is unlikely you acquired any STD from the encounter you described.
4. I see no reason to seek further care. If you do, you may get more antibiotics "just in case" which is rarely a good idea. It could be that you coincidentally acquired prostatitis but this is unlikely.
5. No.
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You are right that the data on use of azithromycin for syphilis prevention is worrisome however penicillin (or amoxicillin) is highly active and if you had been exposure to syphilis 5 days of amoxicillin would have cured it.
Please do not th8ink that I am trying to "point a finger". I just wanted to let you know that I have taken the time to research but am still vague on the issue. Would 1.5g of azithromycin taken in a single dose cure syphillis?
many gonorrhea strains are resistant to cipro, especially in men who have sex with men; and azithromycin in the dose you received is around 80-90% effective. To the specific questions:
1) Low risk, since oral sex is pretty safe -- not completely risk free for STDs, but much less risky than vaginal or anal sex -- and the anal sex was condom-protected.
2) As discussed above, gonorrhea is the only one likely.
The incubation time in which it takes syphilis to develop is, on average, 21 days. A single treatment with benzathine penicillin in the dose you received is completely effective in preventing development of syphilis. The CDC's recommendation for persons in your situation is a single injection of penicillin with no need for further treatment or follow-up.
In answer to your questions:
1. No, the preventative treatment is completely effective.
2.
Here is my situation. In the latter part of June 2013 I notice I had a burning sensation when I urinated and in the mornings I had a white discharge from my penis. So I schedule for testing at a clinic, I was tested and treated on
July 2 2013. The nurse who took my sample looked at it under a microscope and told me she didn't see any evidence of clymidia but saw some signs of an early stage of gonherrea. She gave me a shot of penicillin and 2 pink pills for clymidia to be on the safe side.
Kissing in principle could transmit syphilis, but it's very rare. And if you're in the US, the chance any particular woman has syphilis is extremely low. There are only about 20,000 new cases of syphilis every year and two thirds of those are in gay men.
Hello~I am sorry you are having these issues.
It sounds to me like the infection has not been entirely killed, I highly suggest that you tell your PCP what is going on and ask if you need another course of antibiotics. Azithromycin is a very strong antibiotic, you may not need one that strong, but I think you definitely need something.
While many people will be cured by therapy of early syphilis with azithromycin, the dose you have received is not the recommended dose. It is also being given over too long a period of time. In addition, because of the potential for treatment failures, you need to be carefully followed and have your infection further evaluated.
The San Francisco Department of Health has an excellent STD Clinic staffed by knowledgeable experts. I strongly recommend that you go there to get checked out.
I am leery of anything that could add to my liver damage and normally try to get an antibiotic in the penicillin family.
There are times that the risk outweighs the benefit.
Good luck to you.
Other known pathogens causing infections of the throat are viral and yeast (candida). The antibiotic of choice for a streptococcal infection is penicillin but azithromycin is also effective.
Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
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