Tetracycline Hydrochloride Capsules 250mg 10X10capsules/Box

• Application: Internal Medicine
• Usage Mode: For oral administration
• Suitable for: Elderly, Children, Adult
• State: Solid
• Shape: Capsules
• Type: Organic Chemicals
• Model NO.: 250mg
• Pharmaceutical Technology: Chemical Synthesis
• Transport Package: Carton
• Specification: 250mg/capsule, 10x10capsules/box
• Trademark: RYAN PHARMA
• Origin: China

Product Description

Tetracycline Hydrochloride Capsules 250mg
COMPOSITION:
Each capsule contains Tetracycline Hydrochloride 250mg; Yellow, Odourless, Crystalline powder in capsules.
INDICATION:
Tetracycline capsule is bacteriostatic antibiotics with a wide spectrum of activity and have been used in the treatment of a large number of infections caused by susceptible organisms. It is the usual drugs of choice in rickettsia infections, including ehrlichiosis, typhus, spotted fevers, trench fever and Q fever, chlamydial infections, including psittacosis, lymphogranuloma venereum, trachoma, non-gonococcal urethritis, chlamydial conjunctivitis, and pharyngitis, sinusitis, or pneumonia due to Chlamydial pneumoniae, and mycoplasma infections, especially pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. They are widely used as part of regimens for pelvic inflammatory disease. A tetracycline is of used in the treatment of cholera, and is usually the treatment of choice in relapsing fever and the early stages of Lyme disease. They are also used in the oral treatment of acne and rosacea, and benefit in melioidosis, destructive forms of periodontal disease. Associate with streptomycin or rifampicin, it is used in the treatment of brucellosis. And as an alternative agent in treatment of tularaemia, actinomycosis, infected animal bites, anthrax bronchitis, gastroenteritis, granuloma inguinale, leptospirosis, and syphilis.
DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION:
The usual adult dosage of tetracycline capsule is 250 or 500mg every 6 hours by month, preferably one hour before or 2 hours after meals. Higher dosage up to 4g daily have occasionally been given in resistant infection, but increase the risk of adverse effects. In children, the effects on teeth should be considered, it only used when absolutely essential. To order children 25 to 50 mg per kg body-weight daily by mouth in divided doses is used. Care is required when being given elderly, should be avoided if possible in renal impairment.
ADVERSE EFFECTS:
Gastro-intestinal effects including nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea are common especially with high doses and most are attributed to irritation of the mucosa. Other effects that have been reported include dry month, glossitis and discoloration of the tongue, stomatitis, and dysphagia, esophageal ulceration. Usual therapeutic doses given to patients with renal disease increase the severity of uraemia. Tetracycline is deposited in deciduous and permanent teeth during their formation, causing discoloration and enamel hypoplasia, also deposited in calcifying areas in bone and nails and interfere bone growth of young infants. An increase in intracranial pressure with headache, visual disturbances and papilloedema has been reported. Hypersensitivity reactions of tetracycline have been reported as rashes, fixed drug eruptions, exfoliative dermatitis, toxic epidermal necrolysis, drug fever, pericarditis, angioedema, urticaria and asthma.
PRECAUTIONS:
It is contra-indicated in hypersensitive patients, and patients with systemic lupus erythematosus & renal impairment, which also should be avoided to be used in pregnancy. Care should be taken when being given to patients with impaired liver function and high doses should be avoided.
PACKING:
10 Capsules blister, 10 blisters/ box.
STORAGE:
Stored in a cool and dry place protected from light.
VALIDITY:
3 years.