Erythromycin treatment in infants, particularly those in the first two weeks of life, increases the risk of a gastrointestinal disorder called infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS).
Infants given the antibiotic erythromycin may be at greater risk of developing pyloric stenosis narrowing of a band of muscle which then prevents partially digested food from entering the small in ...
Q:I am 36 and have had bad acne since puberty. In October I finally went to see a dermatologist, who prescribed erythromycin and said that I should take it for a few months and then go onto a dru ...
Finland, which has tripled the use of erythromycin in the last decade to treat streptococcus infections, is suffering from a widespread resistance to the drug by that particular bacteria. ...