Tablets Tetracycline are one of the most potent antibiotics of a wide-range system-type action. The active substance penetrates almost all tissues of the body, ensuring a stable and rapid effect. Naturally, it is necessary to use medicines of this kind with great care. An error in dosage is fraught with unpleasant side effects, and ignoring contraindications can lead to irreversible changes in the body.
Rules for the use of tetracycline tablets
The composition of one tablet of tetracycline is a different concentration of the main active substance, the antibiotic tetracycline. The form of release of Tetracycline includes tablets of 0.25 g, 0.05 g, 0.125 g and 0.25 g. There are also depot tablets of 0.12 g, intended for children and 0.375 g for adults.
How to take Tetracycline in tablets depends on the complexity and nature of your disease. Dosage should be selected by a doctor. For adults, there is a standard treatment regimen that sets a maximum daily dose of 4 g. Usually, doctors are limited to 2 g per day. The drug is drunk with a time interval of 6 hours.
Indications for the use of the drug are:
- diseases of the respiratory system ( pneumonia , purulent pleurisy, bronchitis and others);
- septic inflammation of the internal cavities of the heart, including endocarditis;
- bacterial infections (dysentery, whooping cough, tonsillitis, brucellosis, gonorrhea, scarlet fever, psittacosis, tularemia, typhus);
- infectious diseases of the genitourinary system;
- chronic cholecystitis ;
- purulent meningitis;
- cholera;
- prevention of suppuration after surgery.
If necessary, the drug can be combined with other antibiotics. It is important that this should not be a medicine from a group of penicillins and cephalosporins. It is also unacceptable to simultaneously use tetracycline with drugs that are antagonists of bacteriostatic antibiotics containing metal ions, retinol and lactose. From dairy products during therapy with tetracycline should also be discarded.
Many people use Tetracycline tablets against diarrhea and with any discomfort in the abdomen. To do this is strictly prohibited - often the cause of a disorder of the stool is much less dangerous for a person than the consequences of unauthorized treatment with a strong antibiotic. Use Tetracycline for intestinal infections can only be prescribed by a doctor.
Analogues of Tetracycline tablets
There are quite a few drugs in which the same active ingredient is tetracycline. These include:
- Apothera;
- Acromycin;
- Gostatsiklin;
- Deslorbiomycin;
- Deshloraurureomycin;
- Cyclomycin;
- Tetrabon;
- Steklin et al.
All these drugs have a similar antimicrobial effect and indications for use. Contraindications also coincide. First of all, it is leukopenia, liver, kidney and pathology of excretory system. Drugs of this type are contraindicated in fungal infections of the body. Do not use these antibiotics in the therapy of children, during pregnancy and during lactation.
As side effects when using tetramycin and its analogues are:
- nausea;
- stool disorder;
- skin rashes;
- decreased appetite;
- defeat of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract;
- allergic reactions, including Quincke's edema;
- photosensitization.
If any of these symptoms appear in the treatment, a break must be made. If the patient's condition has not improved within a week, then therapy with antibiotics of this group should not be categorically recommended. It is necessary to choose a preparation with another active substance.