Oxytetracycline 250mg tablets

Ülke: Birleşik Krallık

Dil: İngilizce

Kaynak: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)

Aktif bileşen:

Oxytetracycline dihydrate

Mevcut itibaren:

Accord-UK Ltd

ATC kodu:

J01AA06

INN (International Adı):

Oxytetracycline dihydrate

Doz:

250mg

Farmasötik formu:

Oral tablet

Uygulama yolu:

Oral

Sınıf:

No Controlled Drug Status

Reçete türü:

Valid as a prescribable product

Ürün özeti:

BNF: 05010300; GTIN: 5012617009227

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OXYTETRACYCLINE TABLETS 250MG
READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS
MEDICINE BECAUSE CONTAINS
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU.

Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.

If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

This medicine has been prescribed for you only. Do not pass it on to
others. It may harm them,
even if their signs of illness are the same as yours.
WHAT IS IN THIS LEAFLET
1.
WHAT OXYTETRACYCLINE TABLETS ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR
2.
BEFORE YOU TAKE OXYTETRACYCLINE TABLETS
3.
HOW TO TAKE OXYTETRACYCLINE TABLETS
4.
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS
5.
CONTENTS OF THE PACK AND OTHER INFORMATION
1.
WHAT OXYTETRACYCLINE TABLETS ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR
Oxytetracycline belongs to a group of medicines called tetracycline
antibiotics. It is also known as a
broad-spectrum antibiotic and may be used to treat a wide range of
infections caused by bacteria.
These include:

lung infections such as pneumonia, bronchitis or whooping cough

urinary tract infections

sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea or
syphilis

skin infections such as acne

infections of the eye such as conjunctivitis

rickettsial infections such as Q fever or tick fever (severe headache,
rash, high fever)

other infections including brucellosis (headache, sickness, fever,
swollen lymph nodes),
psittacosis (headache, nose bleeds, shivering, fever), plague (painful
swelling of the lymph
nodes), cholera (severe sickness and diahorrea)

leptospirosis (fever causing jaundice or meningitis), gas-gangrene and
tetanus (lock jaw).
2.
BEFORE YOU TAKE OXYTETRACYCLINE TABLETS
DO NOT TAKE Oxytetracycline tablets and TELL your doctor if you:

are ALLERGIC to oxytetracycline, other similar antibiotics (such as
minocycline or doxycycline) or
any other ingredient in the tablet (see section 6). The tablet
contains sunset yellow (E110) which
may cause allergic reactions

have had KIDNEY or LIVER problems for a long time

have systemic lupus erythem

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SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
1
NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT
Oxytetracycline Tablets BP 250mg
2
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION
Each tablet contains 250mg Oxytetracycline Dihydrate PhEur.
3
PHARMACEUTICAL FORM
Yellow film-coated tablets
Yellow, circular, biconvex film-coated tablets, impressed “C” on
one face and
the identifying letters “OT” on the reverse.
4
CLINICAL PARTICULARS
4.1
THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS
Oxytetracycline is a bacteriostatic broad-spectrum antibiotic, active
against a
wide variety of Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
Infections caused by oxytetracycline-sensitive organisms include:
1) _Respiratory tract infections: _Pneumonia, whooping cough and other
lower
respiratory
tract
infections
due
to
susceptible
strains
of
_Streptococcus _
_pneumoniae, _
_Haemophilus _
_influenzae, _
_Klebsiella _
_pneumoniae _
and
other
organisms.
_Mycoplasma _
_pneumoniae _
pneumonia.
Treatment
of
chronic
bronchitis (including the prophylaxis of acute exacerbations).
2) _ Urinary tract infections: _ caused by susceptible strains of the
Klebsiella
species. Enterobacter species, _ Escherichia coli, Streptococcus
faecalis _ and
other organisms.
3) _ Sexually transmitted diseases. _ Infections due to _ Chlamydia
trachomatis _
including
uncomplicated
urethral,
endocervical
or
rectal
infections.
Non-
gonococcal urethritis caused by _ Ureaplasma urealyticum: _
Oxytetracycline is
also
indicated
in
chancroid,
granuloma
inguinale
and
lymphogranuloma
venereum.
Oxytetracycline
is
an
alternative
drug
in
the
treatment
of
gonorrhoea and syphilis.
4)
_Skin _
_Infections: _
Acne
vulgaris
when
antibiotic
therapy
is
considered
necessary and severe rosacea.
5)_ Ophthalmic infections: _Trachoma, although the infectious agent,
as judged
by immunofluorescence, is not always eliminated. Inclusion
conjunctivitis
may be treated with oral oxytetracycline alone or in combination with
topical
agents.
6)_ Rickettsial infections: _Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus
group, Q fever
and Coxiella endocarditis and tick