A full course of treatment is 6 doses (24 tablets) of Coartem taken over 3 days: Important: Take the full course of treatment with Coartem for all 3 days even if you are feeling better. If you weigh less than 77 pounds (35 kg), your healthcare provider will tell you how many tablets to take for each dose.
Coartem Tablets, a fixed dose combination of artemether and lumefantrine in the ratio of 1:6, is an antimalarial agent [see Microbiology ]. Following administration of Coartem Tablets to healthy volunteers and patients with malaria, artemether is absorbed with peak plasma concentrations reached about 2 hours after dosing.
Coartem 1 Coartem contains a combination of artemether and lumefantrine. 2 Important information. Serious drug interactions can occur when certain medicines are used together. 3 Before taking this medicine. You should not use Coartem if you are allergic to artemether... 4 Coartem dosing information.
Administration Instructions. Coartem Tablets should be taken with food. Patients with acute malaria are frequently averse to food. Patients should be encouraged to resume normal eating as soon as food can be tolerated since this improves absorption of artemether and lumefantrine.
Take Coartem for 3 days even if you are feeling better. Every dose of Coartem should be taken with food, such as milk, infant formula, pudding, porridge, or broth. It is important for you to eat as soon as you can so that your malaria will go away and not get worse.
Coartem is usually given as a total of 6 doses over a period of 3 days. Carefully follow your doctor's instructions about how many tablets to take per dose. Coartem doses are based on weight and age. The usual doses are as follows, unless your doctor tells you otherwise.
The wealth of safety data on artemether/lumefantrine has not identified any neurological, cardiac or haematological safety concerns. In addition, repeated administration is not associated with an increased risk of adverse drug reactions including neurological adverse events.
Conclusions. Study results confirmed the satisfactory efficacy and safety profile of ASAQ and AL. Moreover, in patients who were treated at least twice, repeated administration of ASAQ or AL did not identify any major safety issues.
Depending on the medication prescribed (Chloroquine/Hydrochloroquine, Atovaquone-proguanil, Doxycycline, Mefloquine hydrochloride or Primaquine phosphate), you may need to take it on a daily or weekly basis.
Begin 1-2 days before travel, daily during travel, and for 7 days after leaving. Adults: 300 mg base (500 mg salt), once/week. Children: 5 mg/kg base (8.3 mg/kg salt) (maximum is adult dose), once/week. Begin 1-2 weeks before travel, once/week during travel, and for 4 weeks after leaving.
For most people, symptoms begin 10 days to 4 weeks after infection, although a person may feel ill as early as 7 days or as late as 1 year later. Two kinds of malaria, P. vivax and P. ovale, can occur again (relapsing malaria).
Can you get malaria more than once? You can get malaria more than once. Even if you have had the disease in the past you still need to take precautions when you travel to a malaria area. People who grow up in a risk area do develop some level of immunity and they are less likely to contract malaria as they grow older.
Artemether stays in the body for three days. The other is lumefantrine, a broad-spectrum antibiotic that stays in the body for about seven days. Coartem is the most effective treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, the more lethal form.
For oral dosage form (tablets): For the treatment of malaria: Adults and children 2 months of age and older weighing 35 kilograms or more—At first, 4 tablets as a single dose, then one dose (4 tablets) after 8 hours. On days 2 and 3, take one dose (4 tablets) two times a day.
Currently, primaquine is the only treatment available to prevent the relapse of Plasmodium vivax malaria. However, as per the primaquine label and WHO recommendations, it is administered once daily for 14 days – a regimen that is hard for patients to comply with, meaning that many are not cured.
Like chloroquine, the medication is taken once a week, from one to two weeks before departure until four weeks after your return.
The efficacy of Coartem Tablets was evaluated for the treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria caused by P. falciparum in HIV negative patients in 8 clinical studies. Uncomplicated malaria was defined as symptomatic P. falciparum malaria without signs and symptoms of severe malaria or evidence of vital organ dysfunction. Baseline parasite density ranged from 500/mcL to 200,000/mcL (0.01% to 4% parasitemia) in the majority of patients. Studies were conducted in partially immune and non-immune adults and children (greater than or equal to 5kg body weight) with uncomplicated malaria in China, Thailand, sub- Saharan Africa, Europe, and South America. Patients who had clinical features of severe malaria, severe cardiac, renal, or hepatic impairment were excluded.
Coartem Tablets contain 20 mg of artemether and 120 mg of lumefantrine. Coartem Tablets are supplied as yellow, round, flat tablets with beveled edges and scored on one side. Tablets are imprinted with “N/C” on one side and “CG” on the other side.
When Coartem Tablets are coadministered with inducers of CYP3A4 it may result in decreased concentrations of artemether and/or lumefantrine and loss of antimalarial efficacy [see CONTRAINDICATIONS and DRUG INTERACTIONS ].
These are not all the possible side effects of Coartem. For more information, ask your doctor or pharmacist. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
However, quinine should be used cautiously in patients following treatment with Coartem Tablets due to the long elimination half-life of lumefantrine and the potential for additive effects on the QT interval; ECG monitoring is advised if use of quinine is medically required [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS ].
There are no data on the presence of artemether or lumefantrine in human milk, the effects on the breastfed infant or the effects on milk production. Artemether and lumefantrine are transferred into rat milk. When a drug is transferred into animal milk, it is likely that the drug will also be transferred into human milk. The developmental and health benefits of breastfeeding should be considered along with the mother’s clinical need for Coartem and any potential adverse effects on the breastfed infant from Coartem or from the underlying maternal condition.
Both artemether and lumefantrine are metabolized by CYP3A4. Antiretroviral drugs, such as protease inhibitors and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, are known to have variable patterns of inhibition, induction or competition for CYP3A4. Therefore, the effects of antiretroviral drugs on the exposure to artemether, DHA, and lumefantrine are also variable [see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY ]. Coartem Tablets should be used cautiously in patients on antiretroviral drugs because decreased artemether, DHA, and/or lumefantrine concentrations may result in a decrease of antimalarial efficacy of Coartem Tablets, and increased lumefantrine concentrations may cause QT prolongation [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS ].
Coartem Tablets should be taken with food. Patients with acute malaria are frequently averse to food. Patients should be encouraged to resume normal eating as soon as food can be tolerated since this improves absorption of artemether and lumefantrine.
For patients who are unable to swallow the tablets such as infants and children, Coartem Tablets may be crushed and mixed with a small amount of water (1 to 2 teaspoons) in a clean container for administration immediately prior to use. The container can be rinsed with more water and the contents swallowed by the patient.
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Jessica has been a massage therapist since 2006, specializing in fluid deep tissue, prenatal, and Arvigo Techniques in Mayan Abdominal Massage. She's also become pretty obsessed with polyvagal theory as of late, and is excited to offer a new twist on classes about ethics, communication and boundaries for massage therapists.
Jessica has been a massage therapist since 2006, specializing in fluid deep tissue, prenatal, and Arvigo Techniques in Mayan Abdominal Massage. She's also become pretty obsessed with polyvagal theory as of late, and is excited to offer a new twist on classes about ethics, communication and boundaries for massage therapists.
Jessica has been a massage therapist since 2006, specializing in fluid deep tissue, prenatal, and Arvigo Techniques in Mayan Abdominal Massage. She's also become pretty obsessed with polyvagal theory as of late, and is excited to offer a new twist on classes about ethics, communication and boundaries for massage therapists.