What Amikacin sulphate Injection 500mg is used for?
Amikacin Sulphate Injection 500mg is an antibiotic that is used to prevent or treat wide variety of bacterial infections. These infections include infections of the urinary tract, bones, and joints, lungs such as pneumonia, infection of the brain, blood, among others. Amikacin is also used in hospitalized patients to prevent infections.
How Amikacin Sulphate Injection 500mg works?
Amikacin Sulphate Injection is an antibiotic that stops bacterial growth by preventing synthesis of essential proteins that is required by bacteria to carry out vital functions.
Amikacin sulphate Injection 500mg Dosage
Amikacin Sulphate Injection 500mg should be taken as prescribed by your physician.
How to use Amikacin Sulphate Injection 500mg
Amikacin sulphate Injection is given as an intravenous infusion (drip) or as an injection directly into a vein or a muscle by a healthcare provider and it should not be self-administered.
Amikacin Sulphate Injection should be used regularly at evenly spaced time intervals as prescribed by your physician.
You should not skip any doses and you should finish the full course of treatment even when you feel better.
If you Stop the medicine too early, it may lead to the infection returning or becoming worse.
Amikacin Sulphate Injection Side Effects
Common side effects of Amikacin sulphate injection include;
- Site reactions
- Increased blood urea.
- balance disorder (loss of balance)
- Kidney damage
- hearing loss.
How often should Amikacin Sulphate Injection be used?
Amikacin Sulphate injection comes as a liquid. It should be injected intravenously into a vein or intramuscularly into a muscle every 8 or 12 hours that is two or three times a day.
Amikacin Sulphate Injection Price
Amikacin Sulphate Injection can be purchased at Drugstore.ng, Nigeria’s largest online Pharmacy store.
