INDOMETHACIN
It is a potent anti-inflammatory & promptly acting antipyretic but it relieves only inflammatory or tissue injury related pain.Rheumatoid arthritis not controlled by aspirin, ankylosing spondylitis, destructive arthropathias and psoriatic arthiritis, acute gout. Bartte’s syndrome.
Adults: 25-50 mg 2-4 times daily. Neonates: 0.2 mg/kg/dose for 3 doses 12 hourly.
Machinery operators, drivers, psychiatric patients, epileptics, kidney disease. Hypersensitivity.
Active peptic ulcer, Renal or hepatic dysfunction. Paediatrics: Usually not prescribed for children under 14 except for patent ductus arteriosus in neonates. Pregnancy: Not prescribed. Lactation: Unsafe. Elderly: Reduced dose is necessary.
Gastric irritation, nausea, anorexia, gastric bleeding, diarrhoea, frontal headache, dizziness, mental confusion, hallucination, depression, psychosis, can induce asthma.
With salicylates, lithium, anticoagulants, corticosteroids, diuretics, b-blockers, probenecid.
Brand Name | Manufactured by |
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INDOPRA | RAVENBHEL PHARMACEUTICALS (P) LTD. |