Nowadays, taking antibiotics is considered the most effective treatment for diseases, as a result of which bacterial elements resistant to drugs develop. Due to weak immunity, improper self-treatment, we are sometimes able to bring our body to an extremely deplorable state - strong inflammatory processes. And only a very effective remedy can affect this.
Today, antibiotics can be attributed to both adults and children. The situation with these drugs is very worrying for parents, because often taking such drugs is also unreasonable, and the child’s body is prone to get used to certain types of them, which may ultimately reduce the physiological defense of the body or cause a complete lack of immunity. So, in the prescriptions of many modern doctors, such a medication as “Klacid” is very often found. Why is this antibiotic so recommended by so many doctors and pediatricians and how safe is its use? Let's figure it out together.
What is the medicine "Klacid" and what is its cost?
So, as mentioned above, this is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is attributed to both adults and children. When using it, as in cases with other drugs, you need to be extremely careful and take the medicine only as prescribed by your doctor. Self-medication with antibiotics is extremely dangerous. It is always necessary to observe the dose of the medicine during administration, indicated in the instructions for the drug.
The antibiotic "Klacid" refers to the semi-synthetic group of macrolides. It effectively destroys the protein base of bacteria, thus disinfecting the affected areas of the human body. This drug is very effective in suppressing aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms. Today, this drug is often used by doctors in medical practice, because it is very effective in the process of influencing standard bacterial strains and their new types.
You can buy the medicine "Klacid" in any modern pharmacy retail network. The average cost of packing tablets is six hundred rubles, suspension - four hundred rubles, bottles for intravenous administration of the drug - seven hundred rubles.
Here's a price scale for the effective antibiotic Klacid, the price of which varies depending on the content of the active substance in mg. Many patients are not happy with the high cost, so they carefully select the analogue of this drug.
Instead of Klacid, analogues can be used cheaper, but this does not guarantee the fast relief effect that is observed when taking clarithromycin.
Since this medicine acts on certain strains of bacteria, it can be used during their direct treatment or in combination with other medications, often with antibiotics, which can more effectively influence clarithromycin-resistant microorganisms.
Often, doctors attribute two antibiotics due to the absolute influence on various bacteria that cause inflammatory processes with complications.
Pharmacological properties of the drug
The active substance clarithromycin, which contains the Klacid antibiotic, is by far the most effective in terms of destroying harmful microorganisms that are resistant to standard types of antibiotics.
The list of bacteria affected by the medicine includes the following: staphylococci, streptococci, gonorrhea, Listeria monocytogenes, Legionella pneumophila, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium fortuitum, Chlamydia pneumoniae (TWAR). Their large list is always indicated in detail in the original instructions for the drug.
When taking this medicine, the physiological condition of patients often does not worsen, it remains stable even after the prescribed course of treatment for several days, despite the complexity of the course of the disease.
The course of treatment with the antibiotic "Klacid" can last from three to fourteen days. As with the appointment of other drugs, the doctor weighs the pros and cons of taking a potent drug, especially during the appointment of his child.
What illnesses are recommended for taking an antibiotic?
This medicine is prescribed during treatment of lower respiratory tract infections. It is advisable to take the drug in acute cases of bronchitis and pneumonia of the lungs. It is very effective in treating infections of the upper respiratory tract and ENT organs, it is often prescribed for pharyngitis, tonsillitis, laryngitis and sinusitis. Skin infections, especially those developing in soft tissues, also respond to treatment with this antibiotic. They treat folliculitis, leprosy, erysipelas, inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue.
The drug is effective in treating duodenal ulcers, and very often it is prescribed to HIV-infected patients. The medicine “Klacid” is indispensable in the fight against hemophilic infection and syphilis.
This tool is an aid in the destruction of localized, odontogenic and disseminated infections.
The drug "Klacid" for children is often prescribed for acute otitis media, whooping cough, scarlet fever. No exception are complex inflammatory purulent processes in the throat.
The medicine "Klacid" with angina is prescribed only with confidence in its bacterial origin.
Adult antibiotic release forms
Klacid tablets are intended for use by adult patients. The manufacturer carefully approached the issue of dosing the drug. You can meet him in pharmacies in the form of 250 mg tablets, under the name "Klacid SR" - 500 mg each, of powdered mass for the preparation of a solution for intravenous administration using a dropper containing 500 mg of clarithromycin in a single dose.
So, tablets and a solution for drip are forms that are designed to take antibiotics by adults. In deciding which type of this medicine to prescribe, the doctor is guided primarily by the complexity of the diagnosis made to the patient.
Forms of release of the children's medicine "Klacid"
The antibiotics prescribed for children are in the form of a dry powder, which is diluted with boiled warm water to obtain a suspension. It is taken in the proportions indicated in the instructions. The medicine in question is no exception. The drug "Klacid" for children is prescribed in the form of fruit powder, which is easy to dilute in a few minutes, having prepared a suspension with a pleasant aroma and sweet taste.
In pharmacies, you can find bottles of 30-60 ml or 100 ml.
The package always contains a measuring spoon, cup or syringe. You can buy an antibiotic in the form of a powder with a concentration of the active substance of 125 mg or 250 mg per 5 ml.
Auxiliary components that are included in the antibiotic for children are castor oil, hypromellose phthalate, citric acid, fruit flavor, xanthan gum, carbomer, povidone K90, sucrose.
The diluted suspension solution is stored for only two weeks. Therefore, you must always write the date of dilution of the powder on the bottle and monitor the proper storage of the resulting medicine.
Before taking the bottle with the contents is thoroughly shaken, since the mixture may precipitate.
Despite the fact that the dosage is indicated for the Klacid medicine in the instructions, the doctor can adjust it depending on the patient’s diagnosis and his body’s reaction to potent drugs. This medication should be prescribed only by a doctor. No initiative in the treatment of any medication does not end well.
At what age is the Klacid antibiotic attributed to children? The instruction for use states that the drug in the form of a suspension can be given to babies as early as six months of age. But again, only with the instructions of a doctor.
The medicine "Klacid 250" (suspension) is prescribed for older children. Also, the concentration of clarithromycin depends on the severity of the disease. A suspension "Klacid 125" is suitable for the treatment of the smallest patients.
Diluted antibiotic powder is prescribed until the age of three. Klacid tablets must not be bitten, they must be swallowed. But children, due to their small age and inability to take medicine, can not cope with this task, so the manufacturer focused on the release of a powdered form of the antibiotic that most young patients like with its pleasant taste and aroma.
Today, doctors' prescriptions may contain the simultaneous use of two antibiotics - Flemoxin + Klacid. This point raises many questions from parents. Why take two antibiotics at the same time? And this is done in case of complications in order to simultaneously affect the bacteria that the Klacid medicine can have a detrimental effect on, and those that clarithromycin cannot destroy.
When is antibiotic not recommended?
The use of the drug "Klacid" is contraindicated along with such drugs as "Astemizole", "Pimozide", "Cytoprid", "Terfenadine", "Ergotamine", "Dihydroergotamine", "Midazolam".
It is unacceptable to take this antibiotic in cases of ventricular arrhythmia and tachycardia. The drug is also contraindicated in severe liver failure and renal failure.
The use of this medicine is also unacceptable in cases of cholestatic jaundice in the anamnesis, the cause of which is precisely the use of clarithromycin.
Hypersensitivity to the components of this drug is also the basis for the rejection of its use during treatment.
It is possible to use this drug, but with great care and assessing all the risks of side effects, with moderate renal and heart failure.
If this drug is contraindicated, then the doctors carefully select a more gentle analogue, "Klacid" is not used in this case.
Antibiotics and pregnancy
Women in position should be wary of taking any drug, be it potent drugs or ordinary herbal drops for the nose. The components contained in modern medicines can cause unforeseen reactions.
An antibiotic, especially during the development of the fetus in the womb, should be indicated by a competent doctor, who, depending on the diagnosis, can predict the development of the situation.
As for the potent substance of the antibiotic "Klacid", it is forbidden to use it at all during the "interesting situation". This moment should be remembered forever. They do not joke with antibiotics!
Side effects that may be caused by the medicine "Klacid"
All potent antibiotics and not only need to be treated as a one-time remedy for alleviating the general physiological state during the course of complex ailments. Despite the high effectiveness of the drug, it has a negative side. What kind of medicine "Klacid" side effects can provoke during the treatment of ailments indicated in the instructions for use of the drug?
So, a potent substance can cause allergic reactions in the form of a rash, dermatitis, urticaria, and skin itching. When taking the Klacid antibiotic, headaches, loss of consciousness, dizziness and insomnia, anxiety and drowsiness, increased irritability, confusion, disorientation, depression and apathy, hallucinations, paresthesia are possible.
Often, many patients when taking this medication have increased sweating, hemorrhage. Many lose their appetite and develop anorexia.
Common reactions to the drug include vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, aggravation of gastritis, stomatitis, constipation and bloating, dry mouth, hepatitis, jaundice. If such signs make themselves felt, you should immediately stop taking the antibiotic and take the course of therapy prescribed by your doctor.
There are also frequent cases of exacerbation of asthma, nosebleeds, pulmonary thromboembolism.
Many who have taken this drug at least once complain of a change in taste when eating. Some patients lose their hearing.
The above defects can manifest themselves in a complex form in HIV-infected people.
That is why this drug should be treated with full understanding, you need to know what it is, especially if it is prescribed for children. A potent antibiotic can replace a less effective analogue. "Klacid" should be used only as directed by a specialist, so as not to harm either his physical condition or the health of his children. This also applies to drugs replacing this drug.
The use of expensive Clacid in medical practice (analogues are two times cheaper) is fully justified by the fact that standard antibiotics cannot cope with the influx of more and more bacteria.
What to do in case of drug overdose?
Very often, especially during treatment of children, parents do not pay due attention to the dosage of the medicine. Yes, and many adults, switching to treatment with potent drugs, not using them earlier, can harm themselves by doubling the dose on their own with the idea that it helps better. But antibiotics cannot be joked, since an overdose can even be fatal!
This problem is more relevant today than ever. Whether the analogue is accepted, "Klacid" itself, in many cases their overdose is observed. Especially such situations are frequent at the time of the first appointment of drugs. The causes of an overdose are negligence of patients, non-compliance with the instructions of the attending doctor and carelessness when reading the instructions for the drug.
Symptoms of an overdose are very similar to the side effects of an antibiotic, such as nausea, vomiting, general weakness, a change in mental state, and chills.
The main method of dealing with overdose of this drug is the cleaning of the gastrointestinal tract from the components of the drug. You can do this at home with the help of absorbent agents - activated carbon and Atoxil powder.
Acceptable analogues of the antibiotic "Klacid"
So, a new type of drug can affect a large number of bacteria, but its only drawback in comparison with the benefits it brings is the cost. In pharmacies, the price for a broad-based antibiotic "Klacid" reaches eight hundred rubles. However, the competent treating doctor will never prescribe the drug without making sure of the diagnosis itself. After all, this medicine acts only on the bacteria of infectious infections indicated in the instructions.
With the correct diagnosis, you can use an analogue. “Klacid” with bacterial angina can be replaced with the penicillin antibiotic, as well as its improved forms - Amoxiclav suspension powder, Amoxicillin capsules, Solutab and Flemoxin tablets, Augmentin syrup. Acceptance of the described medication takes place in severe cases of diseases and in cases where the above analogues do not give any effect.
If the price does not suit the Klacid antibiotic, it is always possible to pick up analogues. But there will be the same positive effect from them as from the drug considered in this article, only a doctor can argue.
The analogue (“Klacid” has several of them) is selected according to the pharmacological properties of the drugs. So, very often, instead of this drug, antibiotics based on clarithromycin are used, such as Klabaks or Klarbakt, Ekozitrin, as well as Clerimed tablets.
There is also an analogue of this medicine on sale in pharmacies called Clarithromycin, that is, the Klacid antibiotic, identical in its active ingredient, does not exceed two hundred rubles. Many people have a question about why doctors do not attribute it to him, and the emphasis is on an expensive drug. The answer has one explanation. Klacid antibiotic is a quality foreign-made medicine, while Clarithromycin is often a fake, containing less active substance than the original. Therefore, to achieve a 100% therapeutic effect, doctors focus on the Klacid remedy, although they do not exclude the possibility of taking similar, cheaper drugs.
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