An effective antibacterial drug is the drug Nitroxoline. Reviews of patients note that the medication significantly alleviates the condition for infectious diseases of the genitourinary system.
Pharmacological properties
Nitroxolin is an antibiotic that is active against many gram-negative and gram-positive microorganisms, enterococci, streptococci, hay bacillus, pathogens of gonorrhea and diphtheria. The medicine is fighting salmonella, shigella, staphylococci, enterobacter, vaginal trichomonas. With the help of a medication, the effect of Klebsiella, mold, mycobacterium tuberculosis, dermatophytes, candida fungi and mycosis pathogens is eliminated. The drug is produced in tablet form.
Nitroxoline tablets: what is prescribed
According to the instructions, the medication is prescribed for the treatment of infectious pathologies of the genitourinary tract, prostatitis, pyelonephritis, epididymitis, urethritis, cystitis. With prostate adenoma and infected carcinoma, Nitroxoline also helps. Positive reviews are left by doctors who used tablets to prevent complications in patients after surgery on the kidneys and urogenital tract, during diagnostic procedures (catheter, cytoscopy).
Instructions for use
Tablets should be used after or with meals. Adults can consume 0.4 grams per day for four approaches. Therapy lasts for 2-3 weeks. If necessary, a single volume of the drug is increased to 0.2 g, which must also be taken four times a day. The maximum dosage should not exceed 0.8 grams. Children after five years of age are given up to 0.1 g four times a knock. Babies up to five years of age are prescribed 0.05 g according to the same scheme. In pediatrics, an antibiotic is taken for up to three weeks. For chronic infections and inflammation of the genitourinary system, the drug is used to treat two courses with a two-week break. For prevention, the medicine is drunk at 0.1 g four times a day for 3 weeks.
Side effect
When used, the antibiotic Nitroxoline (reviews say this) can provoke tachycardia, polyneuropathy, loss of appetite, and vomiting. Some patients experience headache, paresthesia, ataxia, pruritus, rash on the skin, and liver function is impaired. Rarely, with prolonged use, optic neuritis, myelopathy, and peripheral neuritis can occur. There are no data on overdose.
Contraindications to the use of the drug "Nitroxoline"
Reviews note that in addition to side effects, there are prohibitions on the use of the drug. You can not take an antibiotic for renal pathologies, cataracts, abnormalities in the liver. Appointments are not made with hypersensitivity to the composition and other medicines of the quinoline series, neuritis, during lactation and breastfeeding. The simultaneous use with nitrofurans is prohibited. Nystatin and levorin enhance the action of the antibiotic.