Active Ingredient: Quinine
Treatment of falciparum (malignant tertian) malaria.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Oral
1,800 - 1,800 mg
From 600 To 600 mg 3 time(s) per day every day for 7 day(s)
Adults (including elderly) and children aged 12 years and over: 600mg every eight hours for 7 days. The dose may depend upon the size of the patient, severity of infection, and evidence of renal or liver disease (when the intervals should be increased), due to a prolonged half-life of the drug.
If quinine resistance is known or suspected on completion of the course additional treatment may be given. This may be one of the following:
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