Tetracycline

Tetracycline – 250 mg Capsules

Tetracycline contains tetracycline hydrochloride as active substance, which is an antibiotic and it is useful in treating a wide range of bacteria which cause infections, such as:
• respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis;
• urinary tract infections;
• post – surgery infections such as osteomyelitis, soft tissue infections;
• intestine infections: infective diarrhoea, acute and subacute syndrome of diarrhoea;
• heart infections, acute and subacute;
• brain infections (epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis and purulent meningitis);
• brucellosis (a bacterial infection which generally manifests with fever, sweating, weight loss, headache, muscle pain);
• rickettsiosis (an infection that usually occurs with fever, headache, general discomfort, inflammation of small blood vessels and which is often associated with skin eruption);
• ear, nose, throat infections (otitis, sinusitis, tonsillitis, mastoiditis);
• eye infections, for example: eyelid infections (blepharitis); conjunctivitis, the infections of the membrane that covers the eye and the inner part of the eyelid; infections of the cornea, the transparent front part of the eye, caused by particular bacteria (trachoma);
• infections of the female reproductive system, for example: infections of the uterus (metritis, cervicitis), of the ovaries and tubes (adnexites), and of the vagina (vulvovaginitis);
• bacterial infections of the skin: localized (forunculosis) or diffused (impetigo: infections that occur with blisters with pus on the skin).