Doxycycline is used for
Infectious inflammatory diseases caused by microorganisms (including intracellular pathogens) sensitive to the medication:
- lower respiratory tract infections (acute bronchitis, exacerbations of chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, empyema of the pleura);
- infections of ENT organs (tonsillitis, sinusitis, otitis);
- infections of the GI tract (cholecystitis, cholangitis, peritonitis, proctitis, periodontitis);
- infections of the urinary tract (pyelonephritis, urethritis);
- pevlic inflammatore diseases (endometritis);
- acute and chronic prostatitis, epididymitis;
- purulent infections of soft tissues, acne (including acne vulgaris and acne conglobata);
- infectious ulcerative keratitis;
- prevention of surgical infections after medical abortion, operations on the large intestine;
- prevention of malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum during short trips (less than 4 months) in a territory where strains resistant to chloroquine and/or pyrimethamine sulfadoxine are common;
- syphilis;
- gonorrhea;
- whooping cough;
- brucellosis;
- Lyme disease (the first stage);
- mycoplasmosis;
- chlamydia;
- rickettsiosis;
- osteomyelitis;
- typhus;
- iersiniosis;
- bacillary and amoebic dysentery;
- borreliosis;
- tularemia;
- Q fever;
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever;
- cholera;
- actinomycosis;
- leptospirosis;
- trachoma;p
- psittacosis;
- ranulocyte erlichiosis;
- infections caused by Haemophilus influenzae.
Side effects
Possible adverse reactions:
- nausea;
- vomiting;
- anorexia;
- abdominal pain;
- diarrhea;
- allergic edema;
- itching;
- skin rash (syrups may contain sulfites that cause allergic reactions right up to anaphylaxis and severe attacks of bronchial asthma);
- dizziness;
- sweating.
Rare reactions:
- Quincke’s edema;
- eosinophilia;
- photosensitivity.
Reactions caused by long-term usage of Doxycycline:
- neutropenia;
- thrombocytopenia;
- hemolytic anemia;
- elevated transaminases in the blood plasma;
- development of candidiasis;
- intestinal dysbiosis;
- reinfection with resistant strains;
- tooth discolorization.
Contraindications
Don’t use Doxycycline in the following cases:
- hypersensitivity to doxycycline and tetracyclines;
- pregnancy (second half);
- breastfeeding (for the period of treatment should refrain from breastfeeding);
- children under 9 years (period of teeth development);
- porphyria;
- severe hepatic impairment;
- leukopenia.
Frequently used in all types of prostatitis. Doxycycline in prostate infections, doxycycline in prostatitis, doxycycline in acute prostatitis, doxycycline in chronic prostatitis, doxycycline in bacterial prostatitis, doxycycline in abacterial prostatitis
