Young children can take azithromycin for up to 5 consecutive days, and on the last day of taking the drug, the effect can still last for about 4 days, because the half-life of azithromycin is 2 days, so there will be a lasting effect of nearly 4 days.
Azithromycin clinically mainly used to treat mycoplasma infections, bacterial infections and other relatively common a kind of drug, young children in taking the drug, generally recommended that the longest consecutive days can be taken, because azithromycin has a relatively long half-life, the cycle is about 2 days, which is equivalent to the efficacy of the last nearly 4 days.
Azithromycin is rarely taken by young children will be allergic, but there will be some adverse gastrointestinal reactions, such as nausea, vomiting, etc., so parents need to take it under the guidance of the doctor, not to use on their own.