Doxiclat 100 mg
42 tablets
Active substance: Doxycycline
What's DOXICLAT® 100 mg, and how is it used?
The active ingredient is a broad spectrum antibiotic doxycycline, so an antibiotic that is effective against a variety of bacteria. The main application is for bacterial infections and associated diseases such as lung, middle ear and urinary tract infections. Furthermore, doxycycline is used against protozoa (ie pathogenic protozoa), such as the causative agent of malaria. Here you can read everything relevant to effects of doxycycline, side effects and applications.
So acts doxycycline
Doxycycline is an antibiotic from the group of tetracyclines. Like all tetracycline derivatives it acts inhibiting growth of the bacteria - therefore it is also called "bacteriostatic agent". In order to grow, bacteria need (like other organisms) to read the information of her heritage and prepared from the information obtained proteins that fulfill vital functions in the cell. This reading and translating the bacterial genetic information will be inhibited specifically by Tetracycline as doxycycline. Human Cell hand, are not hindered in their growth, as the antibiotic only selectively acts on the protozoa.
Through this process, there is a growth arrest of pathogens, which is given to the body the chance to become the infection by immune reactions Lord.
When is doxycycline used?
Doxycycline is used for treatment of various infectious diseases. Examples are bacterial respiratory infections (such as chronic bronchitis, atypical pneumonia, sinusitis and otitis media). Even with Lyme disease, diseases of the urinary tract, the genital tract and the prostate, various gastrointestinal diseases (such as cholera) and skin diseases (such as acne vulgaris), the antibiotic can be administered.
Especially interesting for long-distance travelers also is a further field of application of Doxycycline - malaria. The antibiotic is suitable both for prevention and for the treatment of tropical disease. Especially in areas where the malaria parasite is resistant to many antibiotics, doxycycline is administered usually in combination with one or more other antibiotics. In Germany, however, there is no preparation with doxycycline, which is approved for the treatment of malaria. If a traveler with malaria coming back to Germany, doxycycline can only "off-label" - that is, outside his official approval - are used to treat.
Thus Doxycycline is used
The doxycycline dosage and duration of use depends on the nature and severity of the disease. The patient should remain strictly to the doctor's instructions. Often, the duration of treatment with doxycycline is in acute infections five days to three weeks, as a growth inhibitor of bacteria doxycycline has an operative delay compared to bacteria-killing (bactericidal) antibiotics.
Doxycycline is usually prescribed orally, so the revenue in the form of tablets, capsules, sustained release (prolonged-release) tablets, effervescent tablets or granules for suspension. The usual dose is 50, 100 or 200 milligrams per unit dose. The doxycycline can be done once a day or divided up to three doses (morning, afternoon, evening). It is recommended to take the antibiotic for a meal with a glass of water, as this compatibility of the active ingredient is enhanced in the digestive tract. It may be taken every day at about the same hours.
What side effects does doxycycline?
In the treatment with doxycycline various side effects may occur. Taking doxycycline containing products can cause irritation and inflammation of the mouth and throat. Mostly it comes to complaints of the gastrointestinal tract (such as vomiting) or to irritation and inflammation of the pancreas. Also hypersensitivity reactions to doxycycline (as swelling of the face, mouth and throat and difficulty breathing) are the possible consequences of therapy. These symptoms are considered signs of an allergic reaction. You carry the risk transition to a life-threatening anaphylactic shock, which is why a doctor should be alerted immediately when the mentioned symptoms occur.
Further possible Doxycycline side effects are photosensitivity reactions - patients are thereby more sensitive to sunlight and UV radiation in tanning booths. The consequences can be severe sunburns and severe skin damage.
What should be considered when taking doxycycline?
Doxycycline preparations should be taken only after the doctor or pharmacist tells you. If hypersensitivity to the active substance or to other ingredients of the drug will have to be resorted to another preparation, because in severe allergic reactions can endanger life.
In pregnancy Doxycycline should be taken only in particularly severe disease. In fetuses from the age of four months, the incorporation of doxycycline often leads to a bone growth disorder, or cause permanent discolouration of the teeth and tooth enamel defects before completion of tooth eruption phase. For the same reasons women are treated during lactation and children up to the age of eight, only partially with this drug. Even in children and adolescents with a body weight less than 50 kilograms, the administration of doxycycline can have harmful effects.
In patients with liver damage treatment with doxycycline is usually restricted.
Experts recommend that during treatment with doxycycline to avoid alcohol. In combination with alcohol, the antibiotic is in fact degraded more rapidly in the liver, whereby the amount of active substance in the body is too small to achieve the desired therapeutic effect.
Doxycycline passes with calcium and magnesium ions, a poorly soluble complex compounds which interfere with the absorption of the active ingredient in the intestine. Two hours before and after taking the doxycycline should no dairy products (such as cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese) are consumed.
Treatment with doxycycline can temporarily impair visual performance and responsiveness. This can make driving vehicles and operating machinery dangerous.
On sunbathing and visits to the solarium should be avoided during the treatment period, because the antibiotic makes the skin sensitive to light.
Since when doxycycline is known?
The first representative of the tetracyclines, including doxycycline the counts, was discovered in 1948: It was a metabolite of certain bacteria and Aureomycin was called. Later it was discovered another natural tetracycline in bacteria, the oxytetracycline. By modifying its molecular structure in the laboratory researchers finally got to doxycycline. It is today one of the best known and most widely used tetracycline antibiotics.
This notice is not intended to be exhaustive. The details are for informational purposes only and does not buy or use recommendation. This information does not replace the advice of a doctor or pharmacist.
