Short answer: Azithromycin and clarithromycin are close cousins, but they are not interchangeable. Azithromycin needs fewer days of treatment, is gentler on other medications, and is usually the more convenient
You open the pharmacy bag and find a small card of tablets. A friend got a different pack for what sounds like the same infection: hers had six tablets, yours
It is day three of your Z-Pak. Your throat feels better, but your stomach is churning, and you have just made your second trip to the bathroom in an hour.
Few antibiotics have a nickname as famous as the “Z-Pak.” The small blister card of six tablets has become shorthand for “a quick course of antibiotics” in American medicine cabinets.
