Active Ingredient: Sulpiride
Treatment of acute and chronic schizophrenia.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
For:
Oral, between 200 milligrams sulpiride and 1,200 milligrams sulpiride, 2 times daily. The maximum allowed total dose is 2,400 milligrams sulpiride daily.
A starting dose of 400mg to 800mg daily, given as one or two tablets twice daily (morning and early evening) is recommended.
Predominantly positive symptoms (formal thought disorder, hallucinations, delusions, incongruity of affect) respond to higher doses, and a starting dose of at least 400mg twice daily is recommended, increasing if necessary up to a suggested maximum of 1200mg twice daily. Increasing the dose beyond this level has not been shown to produce further improvement.
Predominantly negative symptoms (flattening of affect, poverty of speech, anergia, apathy, as well as depression) respond to doses below 800mg daily; therefore, a starting dose of 400mg twice daily is recommended. Reducing this dose towards 200mg twice daily will normally increase the alerting effect of sulpiride.
Patients with mixed positive and negative symptoms, with neither predominating, will normally respond to a dose of 400mg-600mg twice daily.
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