Remember Z-Packs?
many—kids and adults, I got Z-Pack antibiotics. Now, decades later, I’m sad to say that basically never happens.
Z-Pack antibiotics, we were told, were safe and effective at treating approximately a billion different conditions. So, what happened to Z-Packs? And why am I stuck with long, boring courses of other antibiotics these days instead? As it turns out, there are some pretty good reasons.A Z-Pack is literally just azithromycin, a standard antibiotic introduced in 1992, formulated in a package of six pills, which are taken over five days.
Plus, the ones I took were usually hot pink and came in a blister pack rather than a bottle—factors that mattered a lot to a sick and miserable 8-year-old me. They were “cheap, easy, cute, and they had a little marketing zing,” Neha Vyas, M.D., a family medicine physician at Cleveland Clinic, tells SELF.of different health issues , which made them an appealing option when the first-line treatments weren’t available.
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