Mefloquine is the active substance of an antimalarial drug.
This oral medication acts to increase the acidity of the parasites that have been eliminated from the body, reducing the symptoms and discomforts caused by malaria.
Indications of Mefloquine
Malaria.
Mefloquine price
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Side Effects of Mefloquine
Nausea.
Contraindications of Mefloquine
Pregnancy risk C; women in the lactation phase; history of depression; anxiety; psychosis; schizophrenia; children under 6 months; Hipersensibility to any of the formula's components.
How to use Mefloquine
Oral use
Adults
- Prevention of malaria: Administer 250 mg of Mefloquine once a week. Start treatment 1 or 2 weeks before going to any risk region and continue taking the drug 4 weeks after returning.
- Treatment of malaria: Administer 1, 250 mg of Mefloquine in a single dose.
Children (Prevention of malaria)
- 15 to 19 kg : Administer 62.5 mg of Mefloquine.
- 20 to 30 kg; Administer 125 mg of Mefloquine.
- 31 to 45 kg: administer 187.5 mg of Mefloquine.
- Over 45 kg: Same dose of Mefloquine adults.
