Active Ingredient: Colchicine
Treatment of acute gout.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Oral
1.5 - 1.5 mg
From 0.5 To 0.5 mg 3 time(s) per day every day for 4 day(s)
1 mg to start followed by 500 micrograms after 1 hour. No further tablets should be taken for 12 hours. After 12 hours, treatment can resume if necessary with a maximum dose of 500 micrograms every 8 hours until symptoms are relieved.
The course of treatment should end when symptoms are relieved or when a total of 6 mg has been taken. No more than 6 mg should be taken as a course of treatment. After completion of a course, another course should not be started for at least 3 days (72 hours).
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