Nazione: Sudafrica
Lingua: inglese
Fonte: South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA)
Bayer
YOMESAN® SCHEDULING STATUS: Not scheduled PROPRIETARY NAME (and dosage form): YOMESAN ® Tablets COMPOSITION: Each tablet contains 500 mg niclosamide . PHARMACOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION: A. 12 Anthelmintics. PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION: Yomesan expels the cestodes from the intestine. No effect can therefore be expected in cysticercosis and echinococcosis due to cestode larvae (cysticerci) lodging in extra-intestinal tissue. INDICATIONS: Infections with: Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) Taenia solium (pork tapeworm) Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm) Hymenolepis nana (dwarf tapeworm). CONTRA-INDICATIONS: Hypersensitivity to niclosamide. Yomesan may be given safely after the first three months of pregnancy, and to patients with liver, biliary and kidney diseases. DOSAGE AND DIRECTIONS FOR USE: Yomesan tablets are taken after breakfast. It is very important that the palatable tablets are thoroughly chewed and then washed down with a little water. The tablets may also be taken disintegrated in a little water. For small children it is advisable to grind the tablets as finely as possible and mix the powder with a little water. If constipated, thorough cleansing of the bowels is necessary before treatment. Dietetic measures are not necessary. In infestation with beef tapeworm (T. saginata), pork tapeworm (T. solium) and fish tapeworm (D. latum) one single dose is sufficient. Adults and children from 6 years upwards - 4 tablets Children from 2-6 years - 2 tablets Children under 2 years - 1 tablet A drastic saline purge (e.g. sodium sulphate, magnesium sulphate), given two hours after the Yomesan dose should ensure a rapid and complete expulsion of the worm. Without purgation, the parasite is excreted in pieces during the next few days. In the case of Taenia solium, a drastic purge is imperative. Leggi il documento completo