Drug information
Ivermectin 6 mg (VERMECTIN)
Indications
Treatment of infection caused by Strongyloides stercoralis, Onchocerca volvulus. Click to listen highlighted text! Indications Treatment of infection caused by Strongyloides stercoralis, Onchocerca volvulus.
Contraindications and precautions
1.Do not use if you had an allergic reaction to this medication or its components.
2.Using this medication in pregnant women, lactating women, children under 5 years of age or with a body weight less than 15 kg,
patients with meningitis, or patients with African sleeping sickness is not recommended. Click to listen highlighted text! Contraindications and precautions 1.Do not use if you had an allergic reaction to this medication or its components. 2.Using this medication in pregnant women, lactating women, children under 5 years of age or with a body weight less than 15 kg, patients with meningitis, or patients with African sleeping sickness is not recommended.
Recommendations of drug use
You should take this medication on an empty stomach or 1 hour before breakfast.
Swallow the tablet whole with a glass of water.
Click to listen highlighted text!
Recommendations of drug use
You should take this medication on an empty stomach or 1 hour before breakfast.
Swallow the tablet whole with a glass of water.
Adverse Reactions
Few side effects were observed such as fever, headache, rash, asthenia, dizziness, arthralgia, myalgia, hypotension, lymphadenitis, partial corneal opacity. Click to listen highlighted text! Adverse Reactions Few side effects were observed such as fever, headache, rash, asthenia, dizziness, arthralgia, myalgia, hypotension, lymphadenitis, partial corneal opacity.
Drug storage
Store at a temperature not exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. Click to listen highlighted text! Drug storage Store at a temperature not exceeding 30 degrees Celsius.
The above information is drug information used for patient self-care only.
If you have any inquiries, please ask your physicians or pharmacists. Click to listen highlighted text! The above information is drug information used for patient self-care only. If you have any inquiries, please ask your physicians or pharmacists.
ที่มาของข้อมูล: ฉันทกา สุปิยพันธุ์, ประเสริฐ สิทธิเจริญชัย. (2551). การใช้ยาต้านพยาธิเพื่อรักษาภาวะการติดเชื้อพยาธิตัวกลมในลำไส้. Chulalongkorn Medical Journal (Chula Med J), 52(1), 63-76. http://www.clmjournal.org/_fileupload/journal/62-4-7.pdf.
Onchocerciasis.http://cai.md.chula.ac.th/chulapatho/chulapatho/lecturenote/infection/parasite/onchocerciasis.html