Furazolidone

by Amros

Active ingredient: Furazolidone

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About Furazolidone, Oral

Antidiarrhoeal

Uses

Non-specific diarrhoeas, bacterial dysentery, food poisoning, typhoid fever, cholera.

How to take it

SUSPENSION: Adults: 4 tsp 4 times a day. Children: 1-4 yr, 1 tsp four times a day. TABLET: Adults: 1 tab four times a day.

Pregnancy and breastfeeding

Pregnancy: Risk cannot be ruled out. Lactation: Caution advised or effect undetermined. Contraindications: Infant below one month (Neonates). Precautions: G6PD deficiency.

Advice

Take with meals. Report difficulty in breathing, fever, flushing, itching, rashes or muscle pain. Avoid alcohol during therapy and for 4 days afterwards. Meals and beverages containing tyramine and other vasopressor amines (for example, ripe cheese, beer, red and white wine, smoked or pickled meat, poultry, fish), OTC appetite suppressants, cough and cold medications and other drugs (unless prescribed) should be avoided during therapy and for atleast 2 weeks afterwards.

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