Indications & Dose:
Adults
Threadworm: 50-75mg piperazine base/kg body wt. daily for 7 days.
Ascariasis:
Single dose of 750mg piperazine hexahydrate for each year of age. Maximum of 4.5mg.
Children 50-75mg/kg/dose on two consecutive nights for Ascariasis for oxyuriasis 25-50mg/kg/day for 7 days.
Contraindications:
Side Effects:
Nausea, vomiting, colic, diarrhea, allergy like urticaria, bronchospasm and rare reports of Stevens. Johnson syndrome and angioedema, rarely dizziness, muscular incoordination, drowsiness, confusion and clonic contractions in patients with neurological & renal abnormalities.
Cautions:
Renal impairment (avoid if severe), liver disease, neurological disease, epilepsy, pregnancy.
Precautions:
Neurological disturbances. Safety not established.
Breast-feeding: Safety not established.
Old age: May be used.
Interaction:
Drugs
Pyrantal pamoate: Antagonism.
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