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Doxycycline 10 x 100mg tabs
Name: Doxycycline 10 x 100mg tabs
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Manufacturer Name: Ind Swift Ltd
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Description
Doxycycline belongs to a group of antibiotics called the tetracyclines. It is an antibiotic that has the ability to inhibit the growth of a wide variety of bacteria and certain other organisms. It works by preventing bacteria from producing proteins that are essential to them. Without these proteins the bacteria cannot grow, replicate and increase in numbers. Doxycycline therefore stops the spread of the infection and the remaining bacteria eventually die.

Doxycycline is used to treat a wide variety of respiratory, urinary tract, eye and sexually transmitted infections, and various other infections caused by susceptible bacteria and micro-organisms.

It is also used for severe acne, as it is active against the bacteria associated with acne, Propionebacterium acnes. This is a common type of bacteria that feeds on sebum produced by the sebaceous glands in the skin. It produces waste products and fatty acids that irritate the sebaceous glands, making them inflamed and causing spots. By controlling bacterial numbers, doxycycline brings the inflammation of the sebaceous glands under control, and the skin is allowed to heal.

Doxycycline is also active against the parasite that causes malaria. It is sometimes used to treat malaria, and can also be used to prevent it when visiting high-risk malarial areas, in particular areas where the malaria parasite is resistant to chloroquine.

 What is it used for?

 Warning!
  • This medicine can cause the skin to react abnormally to direct sunlight and UV light, causing an exagerated sunburn reaction. Avoid exposing your skin to direct sunlight and UV light while taking this medicine. Stop taking this medicine and consult your doctor at the first sign of any skin reaction.
  • If you are using this medicine as malaria prevention you should start taking it, as directed by your doctor, two days before you travel. You should continue taking it throughout your stay in the malarious region, and for a further four weeks after leaving.
  • Doxycycline capsules should be taken with plenty of water while you are sitting or standing. Avoid taking them just before going to bed. This is to prevent the medicine irritating the throat. If you find the medicine irritates your stomach you can minimise this by taking it with food or milk.
  • Occasionally this antibiotic may upset the natural balance of micro-organisms in the body, allowing those that are not susceptible to doxycycline to overgrow and cause infection. This may happen with yeasts such as Candida, resulting in thrush infections. If this happens, stop taking this medicine and see your doctor.
Use with caution in
  • Decreased liver function
  • Life long inherited blood diseases which can cause a variety of symptoms, including mental health problems (porphyrias)
  • Long-term inflammation of skin and some internal organs (systemic lupus erythematosus)
  • People taking medicines with potential to cause adverse effects on the liver
Not to be used in
  • Allergy to other tetracycline antibiotics, eg doxycycline, minocycline
  • Breastfeeding

  • Children under 12 years of age
  • Pregnancy

This medicine should not be used if you are allergic to one or any of its ingredients. Please inform your doctor or pharmacist if you have previously experienced such an allergy.

If you feel you have experienced an allergic reaction, stop using this medicine and inform your doctor or pharmacist immediately.

 Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

 Certain medicines should not be used during pregnancy or breastfeeding. However, other medicines may be safely used in pregnancy or breastfeeding providing the benefits to the mother outweigh the risks to the unborn baby. Always inform your doctor if you are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, before using any medicine.
  • This medicine should not be used during pregnancy as it may be harmful to the unborn baby. Seek medical advice from your doctor.
  • Significant amounts of this medicine may pass into breast milk. It should not be used by breastfeeding mothers. Discuss this with your doctor.
Label warnings
  • Avoid exposure of skin to direct sunlight or sun lamps.
  • Do not take iron preparations or indigestion remedies at the same time of day as this medication.
  • Take at regular intervals. Complete the prescribed course unless otherwise directed.
  • This medication is to be taken with plenty of water.
Side effects

 Medicines and their possible side effects can affect individual people in different ways. The following are some of the side effects that are known to be associated with this medicine. Because a side effect is stated here, it does not mean that all people using this medicine will experience that or any side effect.
  • Blood disorders
  • Abnormal reaction of the skin to light, usually a rash (photosensitivity)
  • Loss of appetite
  • Disturbances of liver function
  • Inflammation of the food pipe (oesophagitis)
  • Difficulty or pain when swallowing (dysphagia)
  • Inflammation of the intestines (enterocolitis)
  • Mild increase in pressure within the skull (benign intracranial hypertension)
  • Hypersensitivity reactions such as swelling of the lips, throat and tongue (angioedema), itchy blistering rash or anaphylactic shock
  • Rash
  • Diarrhoea
  • Nausea and vomiting
The side effects listed above may not include all of the side effects reported by the drug's manufacturer.

For more information about any other possible risks associated with this medicine, please read the information provided with the medicine or consult your doctor or pharmacist.

 How can this medicine affect other medicines?

 The absorption of doxycycline from the gut may be reduced by the following:
- antacids containing aluminium, magnesium, calcium or bismuth salts (the dose of antacids should be separated from the doxycycline dose by at least two to three hours if they must be used)
- iron preparations
- zinc salts.

In addition, doxycycline reduces the absorption of iron preparations taken by mouth.

Doxycycline may reduce the effectiveness of the combined oral contraceptive pill.

Doxycycline may increase the anti-blood-clotting effects of anticoagulants such as warfarin. People taking this type of medicine should be monitored when doxycycline is first added to treatment.

The following medicines may reduce the blood level of doxycycline:
- barbiturates, eg phenobarbitone
- carbamazepine
- phenytoin.
Your doctor may need to increase the dose of doxycycline if you are taking these medicines.

Tetracyclines in general may decrease the effectiveness of penicillin type antibiotics. This medicine should be avoided with penicillin.

Alcoholics may have reduced blood levels of doxycycline. This is because in this group of people alcohol stimulates the liver to metabolise the doxycycline. Alcohol has not been found to have this effect in people who drink moderately. 

 
 
 
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