Pharyngitis is a fairly common throat disease. The cause of the disease is infection. Pharyngitis gives a lot of discomfort: temperature, weakness, sharp pain in the throat, because of which it is hard to drink and eat. Operative treatment helps quickly get rid of the disease.
Treatment of pharyngitis with antibiotics
Pharyngitis is not the most serious infectious disease, and therefore fighting with it is relatively quick and easy, as with an ordinary cold. In most cases, to restore a lot of drinking, take vitamins and gargle with special solutions.
Antibiotics for pharyngitis are rarely used. These are very strong drugs, which, nevertheless, in the fight against pharyngitis are not always effective. Antibiotics are prescribed in the following cases:
- Strongly effective agents are indicated for use in the face of the threat of pneumonia.
- Think about what antibiotics to treat pharyngitis and if it is accompanied by purulent otitis media.
- To stop the disease with antibiotics should be and when she moves to the nasal sinuses.
- Do not do without a strong treatment and at high temperatures, not falling off for several days.
Timely and appropriate antibiotic treatment will help prevent chronic pharyngitis. But it can only be assigned by a specialist after a thorough examination.
The standard course of treatment should last at least a week or ten days. If, after a couple of days of taking antibiotics, the symptoms of the disease do not disappear, you need to contact a specialist to select another medication. Unfortunately, the right medication does not always manage to pick up the first time, and you need to be ready for this.
List of the most effective antibiotics for pharyngitis
The antibiotics of the penicillin group are the most effective with pharyngitis:
- Ampicillin;
- Dicloxacillin;
- Phenoxymethyl penicellin;
- Carbenicillin.
Since the use of these antibiotics with pharyngitis can cause allergies, they have to look for an alternative. Replace penicillins with macrolides, lincosamides or ceflasporins. The most popular representatives of the groups:
- Cefuroxime;
- Cefadroxil;
- Cephalexin;
- Clindamycin;
- Lincomycin;
- Clarithromitacin;
- Spiramycin;
- Azithromycin ;
- Roxithromycin and others.
Unlike other drugs, Azithromycin can be used for no more than five days.