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Levomycetinum Indications
Treatment of severe anaerobic infection (brain abscess), and abdominal infections (purulent peritonitis, biliary tract infection, urinary tract infection), where agents often Bacteroides fragilis.
Treatment of meningococcal disease, bacterial meningitis, both empirically and when it is known that pathogens are susceptible microorganisms such as Haemophilus influenzae.
Chloramphenicol is also indicated in the treatment of chlamydia, brucellosis, rickettsial infections such as typhus, erlihioz, trachoma, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. For bacterial infections, the treatment of which chloramphenicol can be used as an alternative to other drugs include severe gastrointestinal infections (including those caused by Salmonella enteritis, Yersinia enteritis, Shigella spp.), Typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, purulent wound infections, inguinal lymphogranuloma, severe infections caused by Haemophilus influenzae, tularemia (especially in cases of suspected meningitis). Chloramphenicol is widely used for the treatment of purulent otitis.
Contraindications
Increased sensitivity to chloramphenicol amphenicols other and / or other components of the formulation; blood diseases, blood oppression; skin diseases (psoriasis, eczema, mycosis);
Pregnancy and lactation; acute respiratory infections, sore throat; expressed human liver and / or kidney problems; deficiency of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; porphyria. It is unacceptable uncontrolled use of chloramphenicol-Darnitsa and its application as a prophylactic measure in mild forms of infectious processes, especially children.
Dosage and administration
Chloramphenicol-Darnitsya is pescribed orally 30 minutes before a meal. Adult drug taking 250-500 mg 3-4 times a day. The daily dose - 2000 mg.
In severe cases, Chloramphenicol can be used at a dose of 4000 mg (the maximum daily dose for adults) per day under the strict control of blood status and function of the liver and kidneys. The daily dose is distributed on 3-4 receptions. A single dose of the drug for children from 3 to 8 years of age is 10 mg / kg body weight, for children older than 8 years - 250 mg.
Multiplicity of reception - 3-4 times a day. The course of treatment chloramphenicol-Darnitsa is 7-10 days. According to testimony provided good tolerability and absence of changes in the blood system possible extension of the course of treatment up to 2 weeks.
