Does One 400mg Suprax Tablet Clear Away Chlamydia?
Question by Baby b: does one 400mg Suprax tablet clear away Chlamydia?
the doctor gave one 400mg of Suprax to take. I just want to know will that really clear up my chlamydia?? (he also said that it would even clear up gonnorhea but i dont have that, its just chlamydia)
Best answer:
Answer by Kelle
That’s all you need.
Answer by Marielle
Beginning in April 2008, cefixime (Suprax®) 400 mg tablets are again available in the United States.
Oral cefixime is now being provided by Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland), which received Food and Drug Administration approval in February 2004 to manufacture and market cefixime. Lupin has been manufacturing and marketing cefixime oral suspension (100 mg/5 mL) since February 2004 and cefixime oral suspension (200 mg/5 mL) since April 2007. Public health pricing* will be available for the 400 mg cefixime tablets.
Information on obtaining cefixime is available from Lupin by telephone (866-587-4617). Guidance on treatment of N. gonorrhoeae infections and updates on the availability of recommended antimicrobials are available from CDC at http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment.
TREATMENT GUIDELINES 2006 FOR CHLAMYDIA IS:
Azithromycin 1 g orally in a single dose
OR
Doxycycline 100 mg orally twice a day for 7 days
Alternative Regimens
Erythromycin base 500 mg orally four times a day for 7 days
OR
Erythromycin ethylsuccinate 800 mg orally four times a day for 7 days
OR
Ofloxacin 300 mg orally twice a day for 7 days
OR
Levofloxacin 500 mg orally once daily for 7 days
I am a retired nurse epidemiologist working in STD programs for 15 yrs. So as soon as I read your question I knew something was wrong. Suprax 400mg is treatment for gonorrhea, not chlamydia. I copied and pasted out of the CDC’s treatment guideline book for you. So the info your doctor gave is not correct or there was miscommunication. None the less wait for 3 weeks and get a test of cure. Did your partner get treated along with you? Couples are to be treated at the same time and no sex, no oral (chlamydia and gonorrhea thrive in the back of the throat, did your doctor swab your throat? Also if you receive rectal sex your rectum needs to be swabbed. Your doctor can get a urine sample from you to run a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) to replicate DNA and this is much more efficient than any other type of testing for you and your partner. Now if you are pregnant and a PCR is done on your urine, something in a pregnant woman’s urine can give a false positive. We brought that to the attention of the company that makes the test in 2002. I don’t know if anything has been changed or not. If you are positive then call your local health dept. and they should treat your partner for free. I don’t know where you live and guys freak out about being tested so make sure they do just a urine test first.
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