Tablets 'Levofloxacin'. Instructions for use

The drug "Levofloxacin-Teva" (tablets) refers to antimicrobial agents. The drug shows activity to aerobic and anaerobic gram-positive and gram-negative microbes.

When ingested, the drug is evenly distributed to the tissues, organs and fluids of the body. A small amount is oxidized or deacetylated in the liver. Excretion is carried out with urine (predominantly), some of the medication comes out with feces.

Tablets "Levofloxacin" instruction for use recommends for infectious lesions, provoked by drug-sensitive microorganisms. Diseases, in particular, include community-acquired pneumonia, acute bronchitis (in the phase of exacerbation), as well as acute sinusitis. The drug "Levofloxacin" instruction for use recommends for pathologies of the urinary tract and kidneys, soft tissues, with intra-abdominal infection. The agent is prescribed for skin infection, with chronic bacterial prostatitis, bacteremia / septicemia (caused by these diseases). In combination with other medications, the drug "Levofloxacin" recommends the use of forms of tuberculosis in cases that are resistant to medicines.

Contraindicated in the treatment of epilepsy, hypersensitivity, lesions of tendons against the background of previous therapy with quinolones. Medication "Levofloxacin" instructions for use does not allow for prescription during pregnancy and breastfeeding, in adolescence and childhood.

Appointments for elderly patients are carried out with caution in connection with the high probability of developing kidney dysfunction.

The drug "Levofloxacin" is taken internally. It is not recommended to chew or grind tablets. Take should be before or in between meals.

In acute sinusitis, once a day, five hundred milligrams is prescribed. It should be taken within ten or fourteen days.

With exacerbation of bronchitis (chronic), the recommended dosage is 250-500 mg. Take once a day for seven or ten days.

Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia is carried out in a dosage of 500 mg. Therapy is carried out seven or fourteen days, while taking the medicine it is recommended a day once.

With infections in the urinary tract of uncomplicated nature, 250 milligrams are prescribed. Take the drug should be seven or ten days once a day.

In cases of soft tissue or skin infections, the recommended dosage is 250-500 ml no more than twice daily or intravenously, 500 mg twice daily. Treatment is carried out from seven to fourteen days.

With bacteremia / septicemia, twice daily 500 mg is given for ten or fourteen days.

With intra-abdominal infection, 500 mg is recommended. Treatment is carried out one or two weeks. Take the drug is recommended once a day. In addition, antibacterial medicines showing activity against anaerobic microflora are additionally prescribed.

Treatment of chronic prostatitis (bacterial) is carried out at a dose of 500 mg once a day. The therapy is carried out for 28 days.

As part of complex treatment, the drug "Levofloxacin" for tuberculosis is prescribed in a dose of 500 mg. Take the pill no more than twice a day for no longer than three months.

In bacterial infections of the eyes, the drug "Levofloxacin" (eye drops) is used. Instillations are carried out every two hours (no more than eight times a day) After the first two days the dosage is lowered and in the next three to seven days it is instilled every four hours. Do not inject more than two drops of the solution into one eye. Instillations are carried out in both eyes.

During the therapy, caution should be exercised when managing transportation or carrying out potentially hazardous activities.

Before using Levofloxacin, you should visit a doctor.