Box containing 10 tablets.
Detailed information
Use in canines and felines – Tablets for oral use.
Ketoconazole (active ingredient in Ketomycol 200) belongs to the group of imidazoles that has antibacterial, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelmintic activity. While its most remarkable is its antimycotic activity altering the permeability of the cell membrane of yeast and fungi susceptible, blocking ergosterol synthesis (the primary cell sterol fungi), deterioration of other enzyme systems with an overall effect of a disorder of cell membrane with cell death.
Imidazoles sensitivity varies greatly among various strains of yeast and fungi, but natural or acquired resistance is not common.
Ketoconazole is the most active of the imidazoles antimycotics.
FORMULA | Each tablet contains:
Ketoconazole…………………… 200 mg
Excipients ………………. 500 mg
INDICATIONS:
Ringworm, mucocutaneous candidiasis, coccidioidomycosis blastomycosis, histoplasmosis, systemic cryptococcosis and aspergillosis.
Susceptible organisms: Blastomyces dermatitidis, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, Capasulatum Histoplasma, Candida species, Coccidioides immitis, Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus fumigatus.
ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE
In dogs 5 to 20 mg/kg every 12 hours until remission of symptoms.
Feline 5 to 10 mg/kg of every 12 hours. The suggested dose administration is subject to the discretion of the attending veterinarian.
PRECAUTIONS:
Do not administer simultaneously with anticholinergic agents. Ketoconazole absorption is inhibited by concomitant administration with cimetidine, ranitidine and anticholinergic agents.
Avoid use in animals with liver damage.
PRESENTATION:
Box containing 10 tablets.
Keep between 5º and 35º C
Reg. No. A 4701 MGAP