What is Erythromycin :

Erythromycin is used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections. It may also be used to prevent certain bacterial infections. Erythromycin is known as a macrolide antibiotic. It works by stopping the growth of bacteria.

Erythromycin is used in the treatment of a great variety of infections such as:

• Upper Respiratory Tract infections: tonsillitis, peritonsillar abscess, pharyngitis, laryngitis, sinusitis, secondary infections in influenza and common colds
• Lower Respiratory Tract infections: tracheitis, acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia (lobar pneumonia, bronchopneumonia, primary atypical pneumonia), bronchiectasis, Legionnaire’s disease
• Ear infection: otitis media and otitis externa, mastoiditis
• Oral infections: gingivitis, Vincent’s angina
• Eye infections: blepharitis
• Skin and soft tissue infections: boils and carbuncles, paronychia, abscesses, pustular acne, impetigo, cellulitis, erysipelas
• Gastrointestinal infections: cholecystitis, staphylococcal enterocolitis
• Prophylaxis: pre- and post-operative trauma, burns, rheumatic fever.
• Other infections: osteomyelitis, urethritis, gonorrhoea, syphilis, lymphogranuloma venereum, diphtheria, prostatitis, scarlet fever.