DOXYTRAC ( TABLET )

Manufacturer
Invision Medi Sciences (Intencis Derma Care)
Drug Type
 Branded Drug
Medicine System
 Allopathy
Drug Availability
 Pharmacy (P)

Ingredients

SKU

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Pregnancy Category D

Essential Medicine :

Schedule Drug Category: H

Usage / Indications

  • Respiratory-tract infections, including pneumonia and chronic bronchitis
  • Urinary-tract infections
  • Syphilis
  • Chlamydia, mycoplasma and rickettsia
  • Prostatitis
  • Lymphogranuloma venereum
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease (with metronidazole)
  • Lyme disease
  • Brucellosis (with rifampicin)
  • Leptospirosis, scrub typhus and travellers’ diarrhoea
  • Psittacosis
  • Cholera
  • Melioidosis
  • Plague
  • Anthrax
  • Q fever
  • Treatment of acute malaria caused by P. malariae and susceptible P. falciparum
  • P. vivax and P. ovale (followed by primaquine to eliminate intrahepatic forms)
  • Prophylaxis of malaria for pregnant women and non-immune individuals at risk

Dosage

Source : NFI National Formulary of India
Oral

Severe infections including refractory urinary tract infection: 200 mg daily. Early syphilis: 100 mg twice daily for 14 days. Latent syphilis: 200 mg twce daily for 28 days. Uncomplicated genital Chlamydia, non-gonococcal urethritis: 100 mg twice daily for 7 days.

  • Child- Only if alternate antibacterial cannot be given 5 mg/kg body weight in two divided doses.
  • Oral
    Adult- 200 mg on the first day then 100 mgdaily.Severe infections including refractory urinarytract infection: 200 mg daily can be used.Early syphilis: 100 mg twice daily for 14 daysand for latent syphilis 200 mg twice daily for28 days is used.Uncomplicated genital Chlamydia, non-gonococcal urethritis: 100 mg twice daily for7 days.Child- Only if alternate antibacterial cannotbe given 5 mg/kg body weight in two divided doses.

Contraindications

  • Pregnancy
  • Children
  • Porphyria
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Hypersensitivity to tetracycline

Precautions

  • Avoid exposure to sunlight or sunlampsphotosensitivity reported
  • Renal impairment
  • Hepatic impairment
  • Lactation
  • Interactions
  • Predisposition to candidiasis

Side Effects / Adverse Effects

  • Gastrointestinal disturbances
  • Anorexia, erythema (discontinue treatment)
  • Photosensitivity
  • Hypersensitivity reactions
  • Headache and visual disturbances
  • Hepatotoxicity, blood disorders, pancreatitis and antibiotic-associated colitis reported
  • Staining of growing teeth and occasional dental hypoplasia; erythematous rashes, nasophryngitis, sinusitis, increased blood glucose levels, haemolytic anaemia, neutropenia.

Storage

Store protected from light and moisture at a temperature not exceeding 30⁰C

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