The medicine "Acyclovir" (tablets) instructions for use are classified as antiviral drugs. The tool has a high selective effect on herpes viruses. The drug is available in tablet form, as well as in the form of a cream and ointment.
The medicine "Acyclovir". Indications for use
The drug is prescribed for primary or secondary infectious lesions on the mucous membranes and skin, provoked by the herpes simplex virus (simple) type 1 or 2, with genital herpes.
The drug "Acyclovir" (tablets), the instructions for use recommends for the prevention of exacerbations of recurrent (repeated) herpetic infections with normal immune status of patients.
The medicine is part of a set of measures prescribed for the treatment of patients with severe immunodeficiency.
Medication "Acyclovir" (tablets), the instructions for use recommends for recurrent and primary infections provoked by the Varicella-zoster virus.
The drug is not prescribed to lactating women, with hypersensitivity to the components.
Caution should be observed when taking the drug in patients with renal failure, dehydration, neurological disorders (including in the medical history).
The dosage of the drug "Acyclovir" (tablets), the instructions for use recommends to establish individually, given the severity of the disease.
In infectious lesions on the mucous membranes and skin, patients over two years of age are usually prescribed five times a day for two hundred milligrams. Duration of admission is five days. In severe cases, the doctor may recommend prolonging the therapeutic course.
With severe immunodeficiency as part of a comprehensive treatment, the medicine "Acyclovir" (tablets) is prescribed five times a day four times four hundred milligrams.
In order to prevent recurrence of herpetic infections of type 1 or 2 with a normal immune status, four times two hundred milligrams is prescribed per day (every 6 hours). In immunodeficiency states, it is recommended to take four hundred milligrams five times a day.
In the treatment of chickenpox, provoked by the Varicella-zoster virus, the recommended dosage for adults is five times a day, five times eight hundred milligrams. The duration of therapy is from seven to ten days. For children from two years of age, the dosage is set at the rate of twenty milligrams per kilogram. The number is divided into four doses. The duration of therapy is five days. For children whose mass is more than forty kilograms, the dosage is set the same as for adults.
With herpes zoster , adults are recommended four times a day for eight hundred milligrams. The duration of therapy is five days. Patients from two to six years old are recommended four times a day for four hundred milligrams, under two years old - four times a day for two hundred milligrams.
Acyclovir tablets are drunk directly after meals. You need to drink plenty of fluids.
As side effects when taking the drug "Acyclovir" (tablets), hallucinations, dizziness, allergic reactions can occur. The drug can provoke abdominal pain, vomiting, hyperbilirubinemia, erythropenia, leukopenia, weakness, tremor.
The use of the drug "Acyclovir" during pregnancy is allowed only as directed by a doctor. The drug is able to penetrate into breast milk. When prescribing the drug to a nursing patient, she should be informed about the need to stop lactation for the treatment period.
In many cases, the greatest effectiveness in the treatment of herpes infection can be achieved using a range of measures. A sufficiently effective adjuvant is the drug "Acyclovir-acre" (tablets). Patient reviews indicate a rapid onset of relief, good tolerance.
It should be remembered that antiviral drugs should be taken only as directed by the doctor.