Artesunate 50mg

 

ARTESUNATE = AS oral

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Prescription under medical supervision

 

Oral artesunate must always be administered in combination with another antimalarial in coformulated tablets: artesunate/amodiaquine or artesunate/mefloquine. 

 

Therapeutic action

• Antimalarial

Indications

• Treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria, in combination with another antimalarial
• Treatment of uncomplicated malaria due to other Plasmodium species, in combination with another antimalarial, when chloroquine cannot be used
• Completion treatment following parenteral therapy for severe malaria, in combination with another antimalarial

Forms and strengths

• 50 mg tablet

Dosage and duration

• Child and adult: 4 mg/kg once daily for 3 days in combination with another antimalarial

Contra-indications, adverse effects, precautions

• May cause: gastrointestinal disturbances, dizziness.
• Pregnancy: no contra-indication
• Breast-feeding: no contra-indication
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