Medicine for colds

[Djan2011]

i have been sick since sunday and went to see the dr yesterday. they made an appointment with someone i've never seen before, which would be fine but im kind of nervous because he gave me three prescriptions and he's a family practice dr. i was reading some of the info that came with the meds and it freaked me out. one of them says its excreted in breast milk so not to take while breast feeding (which im not it just freaked me out) the main one that i really need to take is the antibiotic Azithromycin but this one says it can affect your heartbeat so i really dont want to take it cause im afraid of what it will do to the baby. silly i know if  a dr gave to it me. but i was wondering if any of you have taken this or know anything about it? help!

[Djan2011]

Thank you! I know it's silly but I feel so much better after reading these about taking them than the dr just telling me to. Lol

[lil_lady25]

I also took this too a few weeks back when I had a nasty cold. I dont think the doctors would perscribe it if it was going to hurt the babies. If anything, you being sick could probably harm them more. Hope you feel better soon! Get lots of rest and drink lots of water.

[amandamae1126]

I believe the Azithromycin is the zpak. I took that about 2-3 weeks ago due to a severe ear infection. If you in fact have an infection, the benefit outweighs the risk. Infections can cause you to have a fever and your baby can not tolerate a fever very well at all, even a low grade one. I did not have any complications when I took the zpak a few weeks ago. The zpak is a grade b drug for pregnancy. It's a low dose and is only 5 days. One thing I did was on the first day I did not take the two together - I took them about 8-10 hours apart. It was about 3 days before I started feeling better.

Hope you start feeling well again soon!