Description medications: tetracycline (Tetracyclinum)

TETRACYCLINE (Tetracyclinum).

Synonyms: Deskhlorbiomitsin, Achromycin, Cyclomycine, Deschloraureomycin, Hostacyclin , Panmycin, Polycicline, Steclin, Tetrabon, Tetracyn and others.

Yellow crystalline powder, odorless, bitter taste. Very slightly soluble in water, it is difficult - in alcohol. Stable in mildly acidic conditions, is easily destroyed in solutions of strong acids and alkalis. When storing the light darkens. Hygroscopic. It has the ability to luminesce under the influence of the blue-violet rays.

Tetracycline is an antibacterial agent produced by Streptomyces aurefaciens or other related organisms.

Apply tetracycline inward and outward. Inside designate patients with pneumonia, bronchitis, purulent pleurisy, subacute bacterial endocarditis, bacillary and amoebic dysentery, whooping cough, sore throat, scarlet fever, gonorrhea, brucellosis, tularemia, typhus and relapsing tifami, psittakozom, infectious diseases of the urinary tract, chronic cholecystitis, purulent meningitis and other infectious diseases caused by microorganisms susceptible to this antibiotic. Tetracycline can also be used for the prevention of infectious complications in surgical patients. Locally appointed tetracycline with infectious eye diseases, burns, phlegmon, mastitis, and so on. N.

There is evidence of significant efficacy of tetracycline with cholera.

Tetracycline and other drugs of this series are used for the treatment of gonorrhea.

In severe septic diseases tetracycline can be used in conjunction with other antibiotics.

Assign inside (tablets) during or immediately after a meal.

Adult dose of 0.2 - 0.25 g of 3 - 4 times a day (high water). Children over 8 years administered in a daily dose of 20 - 25 mg / kg. Prescribe drugs to adults in doses of less than 0.8 g per day should not be, because, in addition to the lack of therapeutic effect may develop resistant forms of microorganisms.

In severe disease, it is better to start with the parenteral administration of drugs of the tetracycline group - tetracycline hydrochloride or oxytetracycline hydrochloride.

The course of treatment is an average of 5 - 7 days. After the disappearance of symptoms, continue to take the drug for 1 - 3 days.

Tetracycline is usually well tolerated, but, like other antibiotics with a broad spectrum of antibacterial action, can cause side effects: loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, upset bowel function (light or heavy diarrhea), changes in the mucous membranes of the mouth and gastrointestinal tract ( glossitis, stomatitis, gastritis, proctitis); there may be allergic skin reactions, angioedema, and others.

Tetracycline and other drugs of this series can increase skin sensitivity to sunlight (photosensitivity).