Patient's question:
My throat hurts a lot. But I don't have a fever. I also don't cough. It's just that my throat is red, swollen, and painful. I've already received four doses of penicillin, which isn't good. Today, I went to the hospital to get tested for mycoplasma, and the results came back positive. I bought azithromycin. I want to ask how many doses of azithromycin should be given per day. Can I give two doses together? Please tell me how to take it.Doctor's answer:
Mycoplasma is only sensitive to macrolide antibiotics, which means other antibiotics have no effect on eliminating mycoplasma. Therefore, once a mycoplasma infection is confirmed, the treatment plan is basically determined, either erythromycin or azithromycin, which can be administered either intravenously or orally. Moreover, mycoplasma infection has a prolonged course. If it is simply mycoplasma pneumonia without extrapulmonary complications, the antibiotic treatment typically lasts for two weeks.