Hexamide

Hexamide Medicine

Contraindications

Hypersensitivity; contact with eyes, brain, meninges and middle ear; use in body cavities or as an enema; sterilising surgical instruments and heat-labile articles; disinfection of soft contact lenses.

Undesirable effects

Hypersensitivity reactions and skin irritation in rare cases have been reported rarely.

Therapeutic indications

An indication is a term used for the list of condition or symptom or illness for which the medicine is prescribed or used by the patient. For example, acetaminophen or paracetamol is used for fever by the patient, or the doctor prescribes it for a headache or body pains. Now fever, headache and body pains are the indications of paracetamol. A patient should be aware of the indications of medications used for common conditions because they can be taken over the counter in the pharmacy meaning without prescription by the Physician.

General purpose cleaners are used as antiseptics.

Name of the medicinal product

Hexamide

Qualitative and quantitative composition

A disinfectant and topical anti-infective agent used also as mouthwash to prevent oral plaque.

Dosage (Posology) and method of administration

The treatment by Hexamide Triton Health Care is with a standard diet for patients with hypercholesterolemia. The dose is determined individually, depending on the initial cholesterol levels. This medication is taken orally. The initial dose is usually 10 mg 1 time / day. The effect is manifested within 2 weeks, and the maximum effect is for 4 weeks. If necessary, the dose can be gradually increased every 4 weeks or more. The maximum daily dose is 80 mg.

Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction

When this drug applied simultaneously with:

- digoxin slightly increased concentration of digoxin in plasma.

- itraconazole greatly increases the concentration of atorvastatin in plasma, apparently due to inhibition of itraconazole its metabolism in the liver that occurs with the participation of isoenzyme CYP3A4; increased risk of myopathy.

- colestipol may decrease the concentration of atorvastatin in plasma, with lipid-lowering effect is enhanced.

- antacids containing magnesium hydroxide and aluminum hydroxide, reduce the concentration of atorvastatin by approximately 35%.

- cyclosporine, fibrates (including gemfibrozil), azole antifungals derivatives, nicotinic acid increases the risk of myopathy.

- erythromycin, clarithromycin moderately increased concentrations of atorvastatin in plasma, increases the risk of myopathy.

- ethinyl estradiol, norethisterone (norethindrone) slightly increases the concentration of ethinyl estradiol, norethisterone and (norethindrone) in blood plasma.

- protease inhibitors increases the concentration of Hexamide Triton Health Care in plasma, as protease inhibitors are inhibitors of the CYP3A4 isoenzyme.

Diltiazem, verapamil, isradipine inhibit isoenzyme CYP3A4, which participates in the metabolism of Hexamide Triton Health Care, so that while the use of these calcium channel blockers may increase the concentration of atorvastatin in plasma and increased risk of myopathy.