ZMAX- azithromycin dihydrate powder, for suspension 
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Patient Information
Zmax® (azithromycin extended release)
Oral suspension

Read the Patient Information that comes with Zmax® carefully before you or your child take it. This leaflet does not take the place of talking with your healthcare provider about you or your child's medical condition or treatment. Only your healthcare provider can decide if Zmax is right for you or your child.

What is Zmax?

Zmax is an antibiotic that kills certain bacteria. Zmax is dosed differently from other antibiotics.

You take just one dose, one time.

Zmax is used in adults and in children over the age of 6 months against bacteria to treat certain kinds of pneumonia (lung infections)

Zmax is used in adults against bacteria to treat sinus infections.

Zmax only works against bacteria. It does not work against viruses, like the common cold or flu.

Zmax has not been studied in children under 6 months of age.

Who should not take Zmax?

Talk with your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you have questions about your medicine allergies.

Before you start Zmax

Tell your healthcare provider about all your or your child's medical problems including if you or your child:

Contact your healthcare provider immediately if you are giving Zmax to a young child (less than 6 weeks of age) and he or she vomits or becomes irritable when fed.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins and herbal supplements.

Zmax and other medicines may affect each other causing side effects. Zmax may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how Zmax works.

Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take:

Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider or pharmacist when you get a new prescription.

Do I need to prepare Zmax?

How do I take Zmax?

How will I know Zmax is working?

Zmax needs time to work, so you or your child may not feel better right away. If you or your child's symptoms do not get better in a few days, call your healthcare provider.

What are the possible side effects of Zmax?

Zmax may cause serious side effects. These happened in a small number of patients. Call your healthcare provider right away or get emergency treatment if you or your child have any of the following:

These symptoms could go away and then come back.

The most common side effects in adults are:

The most common side effects in children are:

Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effects that bother your or your child, or that does not go away.

These are not all of the possible side effects with Zmax. For a list of all reported side effects, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.

General information about Zmax

Healthcare providers sometimes prescribe medicines for conditions that are not in the patient leaflets. Do not use Zmax for anything other than what your healthcare provider prescribed. Do not give it to other people, even if they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them.

This Patient Information leaflet is a summary of the most important information about Zmax. For more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about Zmax that is written for healthcare professionals. For more information, go to our website at www.zmaxinfo.com or call 1-800-438-1985.

What is in Zmax?

Active ingredient: azithromycin dihydrate

Inactive ingredients: glyceryl behenate, poloxamer 407, sucrose, sodium phosphate tribasic anhydrous, magnesium hydroxide, hydroxypropyl cellulose, xanthan gum, colloidal silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, artificial cherry flavor, and artificial banana flavor

Brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Coumadin® is a registered trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc.

Ketek® is a registered trademark of Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

This product's label may have been updated. For current full prescribing information, please visit www.pfizer.com.

This Patient Information has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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LAB-0606-7.0
Revised November 2021

Revised: 12/2021
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