Such antibacterial agent, as Levomechitin, has been used for a long time in the treatment of inflammation of the bladder (cystitis). The effect of this drug in cystitis is based on the effect of the treating substance on various types of bacteria and large viruses, which does not allow them to continue to actively multiply.
This drug has a fairly wide range of therapeutic effects, but its use in cystitis should be cautious, as Lemecitin causes a violation of protein synthesis in microorganisms.
Before you start treatment with this tool, you need to make sure that there are no contraindications to it. And such are:
- various skin diseases, including eczema, psoriasis, fungal lesions;
- intolerance to this antibiotic;
- oppression of hematopoiesis;
- pregnancy and feeding of the baby with breast milk;
- Do not prescribe the drug and newborn children.
How to take levomycitin with cystitis?
Tablets of Levomecitin in cystitis, as well as with other diseases, indicated in the indications for its use, should be drunk before meals, at least half an hour.
The adult dose is one to two tablets up to four times a day. At the same time a day should not take more than 2 g of medicine. Sometimes, a doctor may prescribe 4 g of a drug per day for 3-4 doses (but this only applies to particularly severe cases).
The child's dose of the drug is determined by the weight of the child at the rate of 10-15 mg per kilogram of weight. For 3-8-year-old children, this dose is 0.15-0.2 g, and for more than 8 years 0.2-0.3 mg.
Take the pill should be 7-10 days.
When using this antibiotic, it should be borne in mind that it can induce dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting, dermatitis, diarrhea, depression, irritability, psychomotor disorders, headache, decreased vision and hearing.