Rheumatic fever

Active Ingredient: Acetylsalicylic acid

Indication for Acetylsalicylic acid

Population group: only adolescents (12 years - 18 years old)

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:

100 mg/kg body weight

Route of admnistration

Oral

Defined daily dose

100 mg per kg of body weight

Dosage regimen

16.667 mg per kg of body weight 6 time(s) per day every day

Detailed description

100 mg/kg body weight per day for 2 weeks and then reduced to 75 mg/kg body weight daily for 4 to 6 weeks.

Active ingredient

Acetylsalicylic acid

Acetylsalicylic acid combines significant advantages such as strong anti-pyretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory action, that is the measure of comparison with all the newer NSAIDs.

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