How long to take azithromycin for Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection

We need to determine the appropriate course of treatment according to the patient's clinical symptoms and relevant examination results. Early use of appropriate antimicrobial drugs can reduce symptoms and shorten the duration of the disease, and most cases resolve spontaneously without treatment, and macrolide antimicrobials are the preferred choice.

However, if the medication is not taken in time, the patient's condition is more serious, and the treatment time may take about ten days. Because the absorption of mycoplasma pneumonia is relatively slow, even after effective treatment, it takes 2-3 weeks for pulmonary infiltrates to be absorbed, and some patients need to delay 4-6 weeks to be able to fully absorb, so for the commonly used azithromycin treatment of mycoplasma, it needs to be once a day, and the course of treatment is 2-3 weeks.

If the drug is taken in the early stage, if it is oral azithromycin, it will generally have a significant effect in five days, but if the drug is not taken in time, the patient's symptoms are more serious, and the treatment time may take about ten days, because Mycoplasma pneumoniae has no cell wall, and penicillin or cephalosporin has no effect on mycoplasma pneumonia.

We also need to determine the appropriate course of treatment according to the patient's clinical symptoms and relevant examination results. If the patient has symptoms such as cough, white sputum, fever, and lack of energy, and mycoplasma antibodies have recently increased more than fourfold, we consider mycoplasma pneumonia.