Active Ingredient: Levothyroxine
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Oral
25 - 200 ug
From 25 To 200 ug once every day
25 ug
Initially 50 to 100 ug daily, preferably taken before breakfast or your first meal of the day. Adjust at three to four week intervals by 50 ug until normal metabolism is steadily maintained. The final daily dose may be up to 100 to 200 ug.
As for patients aged over 50 years.
For patients over 50 years, initially, it is not advisable to exceed 50 ug daily. In this condition, the daily dose may be increased by 50 ug at intervals of every 3-4 weeks, until stable thyroxine levels are attained. The final daily dose may be up to 50 to 200 gu.
Where there is cardiac disease, 25 ug daily or 50 ug on alternate days is more suitable. In this condition, the daily dosage may be increased by 25 microgram increments at intervals of every 4 weeks, until stable thyroxine levels are attained. The final daily dose may be up to 50 to 200 ug.
For patients aged over 50 years, with or without cardiac disease, clinical response is probably a more acceptable criteria of dosage rather that serum levels.
It should be taken before breakfast or the first meal of the day.
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