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Product trade name: Mebelmin
Pharmaceutical active ingredients containing related brand and generic drugs, medications or other health care products: Mebelmin available forms, composition, doses: Mebelmin destination | category: Indications and usages, anatomical therapeutic chemical and diseases classification codes: Pharmaceutical companies, researchers, developers, manufacturers, distributors and suppliers: Online pharmacy, drugstores, pharma, health and beauty shops selling this or related pharmaceutical products: There is an additional general information about this medication active ingredient mebendazole: Pharmacological action Mebelmin is a worming medication a broad spectrum of action, it is most effective when enterobioze. This drug causes irreversible disturbance of glucose utilization in the body of the worm and inhibits the synthesis of ATP. Pharmacokinetics Mebelmin is practically not absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. The plasma protein binding is 90%. This medication is distributed unevenly in organs and accumulates in adipose tissue, liver, and larvae of helminths. Mebendazole is metabolized in the liver to 2-amino derivative. T1/2 is 2.5-5.5 hours. More than 90% of the dose is excreted unchanged in feces. Grown deep portion (5-10%) is excreted by kidneys. Why is Mebelmin prescribed? Enterobiasis, ascariasis, hookworm disease, strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, trichinosis, teniasis, echinococcosis, mixed helminth infections. Dosage and administration For adults and children over 10 years at enterobioze a single dose is 100 mg. For children aged 2 to 10 years a single dose is 25-50 mg. In the case of a high probability of re-infestation the drug taking repeats after 2-4 weeks in the same dose. It is recommended that simultaneous treatment of all family members. When ascariasis, trichuriasis, hookworm disease, teniasis, strongyloidiasis and mixed helminthiasis - 100 mg in the morning and evening for 3 days. When trichinosis - 200-400 mg 3 times / day for 3 days, from 4th to 10th day - 400-500 mg 3 times / day. When echinococcosis - 500 mg 2 times / day in the first 3 days, then the same dose 3 times / day in the next 3 days. Later mebendazole used in doses of 25-30 mg / kg / day in 3-4 doses. Mebelmin side effects, adverse reactions Digestive system: rarely - nausea, abdominal pain; when used in high doses for long periods of time may be vomiting, diarrhea, transient elevation of liver enzymes in serum. CNS: Rarely - dizziness when used in high doses for long periods of time - a headache. Hematopoietic system: when used in high doses for long periods of time may be leukopenia, anemia, eosinophilia. Urinary system: when used in high doses for long periods of time - hematuria, cylindruria. Other: when used in high doses for long periods of time - an allergic reaction, hair loss. Mebelmin contraindications Pronounced liver disfunctions, pregnancy, lactation (breastfeeding), children under 2 years of age, hypersensitivity to mebendazole. Using during pregnancy and breastfeeding Mebelmin is contraindicated during pregnancy and lactation (breastfeeding). Category of the fetus by FDA - C. Special instructions With prolonged use of Mebelmin it is necessary to control the peripheral blood picture, liver and kidney function. Within days after taking mebendazole avoid drinking alcohol. After receiving mebendazole do not use a laxative. It is mandatory a periodic examination of smears of the anal region and the feces after treatment (therapy is effective in the absence of helminths or their eggs for 7 consecutive days). Mebelmin drug interactions Mebendazole reduces insulin requirements in diabetic patients. It is necessary to avoid a simultaneously taking of Mebelmin with lipophilic substances. With simultaneous use with cimetidine it may increase, and carbamazepine, and other inducers of metabolism to reduce the concentration of mebendazole in the blood. Mebelmin in case of emergency / overdose Symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain. With prolonged use at high doses: reversible hepatic dysfunction, hepatitis, neutropenia. Treatment: gastric lavage, enemas, activated charcoal method; there is no specific antidote.
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