Active Ingredient: Chlorpromazine
Schizophrenia and other psychoses (especially paranoid) mania and hypomania.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Intramuscular
25 - 75 mg
From 8.333 To 25 mg 3 time(s) per day every day
Doses in the lower range for adults should be sufficient to control symptoms i.e. 25 mg 8 hourly.
Deep intramuscular injection.
Oral
25 - 150 mg
From 8.333 To 50 mg 3 time(s) per day every day
Start with 1/3-½ usual adult dose with a more gradual increase in dosage.
Initially 25 mg t.d.s. or 75 mg at bedtime increasing by daily amounts of 25 mg to an effective maintenance dose. This is usually in the range 75 to 150 mg daily but some patients may require up to 0.5 g daily.
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