Description

AMATEM-FORTE-SOFTGEL-480mg

About this Item:

— Active Ingredient: Artemether 80 mg, Lumefantrine 480 mg —

Product Benefits (What it Treats)

— Take Amatem Forte Soft Gel Capsules to help clear up your malaria infection quickly and efficiently —

— This prescription medicine is proven to work by blocking the synthesis of nucleic acid and proteins, which kills the parasitic organisms that cause malaria —

— It can be used in patients weighing 5 kg (11 lb) and above —

Other Essential Uses (Important points to note):

— Artemether and Lumefantrine tablets are indicated for the treatment of P. falciparum malaria cases resistant to both Chloroquine and Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine combination —

Side Effects:

Common adverse events reported with Artemether and Lumefantrine combination included

— headache —

— dizziness —

— sleep disorder —

— abdominal pain —

— anorexia–

— diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, palpitation, cough, arthralgia, myalgia, pruritus, rash, asthenia and fatigue —

— Somnolence, involuntary muscle contractions. Paraethesia, hypoaesthesia, abnormal gait, ataxia were other adverse effects reported with Artemether and Lumefantrine combination —

— Rare adverse event included hypersensitivity —

Note:

Artemether and Lumefantrine combination is well tolerated by children and adults, with most adverse events being of mild to moderate severity and duration. Many of the reported events are likely to be related to the underlying malaria and/or to an unsatisfactory response to treatment rather than to the combinations

Who can’t take this:

— Breastfeeding women should not use Artemether and Lumefantrine tablets due to the long elimination half-life of Lumefantrine (4 to 6 days). It is recommended that breastfeeding should not resume before day 28 after discontinuation of Artemether and Lumefantrine combination unless potential benefits to mother and child outweigh the risk of the combination treatment —

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