For the prophylaxis and treatment of infections caused by
erythromycin-sensitive organisms.
Erythromycin is highly effective in the treatment of a great variety of
clinical 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