Active Ingredient: Tetracycline
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
For:
Regimen A: Oral, 250 milligrams tetracycline, once every 6 hours, over the duration of 10 days.
Regimen B: Oral, 500 milligrams tetracycline, once every 6 hours, over the duration of 10 days.
Regimen C: Oral, 500 milligrams tetracycline, once every 12 hours, over the duration of 10 days.
Usual daily dose, 1 gram as 500 mg twice a day or 250 mg four times a day. Higher doses such as 500 mg four times a day may be required for severe infections or for those infections which do not respond to the smaller doses.
Tetracycline should be administered for at least 10 days.
Usual adult dose. Caution should be observed as subclinical renal insufficiency may lead to drug accumulation.
Tetracycline should be given one hour before or two hours after meals, since food and some dairy products interfere with absorption.
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