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Description
About Zentel tablet
- Zentel is an antiparasitic or antiworm medicine.
- Moreover, doctors call it anthelmintic.
- Besides, physicians use it for treating parasitic worm infections.
- However, it does not let newly formed insect larvae survive.
- Also, it stops their growth and multiplication inside the sufferer’s body.
- Zentel is useful for the treatment of some infections due to worms.
- However, these infections are dog tapeworm and pork tapeworm.
- Zentel kills the parasites that give you an infection.
- Moreover, it does not allow the infection to spread.
Uses
- Zentel is helpful for the treatment of neurocysticercosis.
- However, this is the infection due to the pork tapeworm.
- Moreover, it usually attacks the eyes, the muscles, and the brain.
- This infection can be the source of vision issues, seizures, and brain swelling.
- Zentel is also useful alongside operations to cure cystic hydatid disease.
- This is the infection due to the dog tapeworm.
- However, it normally attacks the lung and liver.
- Moreover, it involves the abdomen lining that can harm these vital organs.
Other uses of zentel
- Zentel is also at times useful for curing infections due to:
- Ascariasis
- Whipworm Infection
- Capillariasis
- Visceral Larva Migrans, Toxocariasis
- Cutaneous Larva Migrans
- Trichostrongylosis
- Cysticercus cellulose
- Trichinosis
- Strongyloidiasis
- Echinococcus
- Enterobius vermicularis
- Filariasis
- Pinworm Infection
- Hydatid Disease
- Elephantiasis
- Neurocysticercosis
- Giardiasis
- Microsporidiosis
- Gnathostomiasis
- Liver Fluke
- Hookworm Infection
- Necator
- Ancylostoma
How do Zentel pills work?
- The pills of Zentel act as an antiworm or antiparasitic remedy.
- Moreover, it acts by depriving the parasite of absorbing glucose or sugar.
- Thus, it consequently depletes their levels of energy.
- Hence, the process kills the parasites.
- And it cures the infection.
How you need to use Zentel
- You must abide by all instructions you get from your physician.
- Moreover, you need to go through the entire medicine guides or leaflets.
- Besides, the user should take the pill correctly as advised.
- Also, you better swallow it with meals.
- Maybe you cannot eat the entire pill.
- Then the patient can chew or crush it and down it with fresh water.
- The patient can get a prescription for other medications too.
- Doctors prescribe them to stop some side effects of Zentel.
- Or for fighting some effects that may occur when worms die inside the user’s body.
- However, the doses of Zentel depend on the user’s weight, particularly among kids & teenagers.
- Moreover, a user’s dose requirements can alter if a patient loses or gains weight.
- Besides, you must take the medicine for the time the doctor’s advice.
- However, users must not avoid eating Zentel if their signs improve fast.
- Moreover, skipping the pill can amplify the danger of the infection.
- Also, this infection is resistant to medicine.
- However, Zentel cannot cure a viral infection.
- You know them by name of common cold or flu.
- Zentel is likely to raise your danger of infection or bleeding too.
- Therefore, you must go frequently to your physician for tests.
- Moreover, your liver function can need proper checking after two weeks.
Dosage
- For tablet dosage
- As to hydatid illness of the peritoneum, liver, and lung:
- The dose for adults weighing sixty kilograms or above depends on body weight.
- However, only your physician can determine the dose and weight.
- Moreover, the dose is normally Zentel 400mg twice a day.
- Besides, you need to eat it for twenty-eight days with meals.
- This is one cycle.
- After it, you need not consume the pill for fourteen days.
- This is for a complete three cycles.
- However, the dose for adults weighing less than sixty kilograms depends on body weight.
- But, only your physician can determine the dose and weight.
- However, your dose can be fifteen kilograms/ kg of your body weight each day.
- Its prescription is two divided doses for twenty-eight days with meals.
- After it, you need not consume the pill for fourteen days.
- This is for a complete three cycles.
- However, the dosage does not exceed eight hundred mg each day.
- For kids, only their doctors can decide the dose and its use.
Missed Dose
- You need to eat the missed dose the moment you remember it.
- Maybe the time for your regular dose is almost near.
- Then you better miss the skipped dose.
- Moreover, you do not need to take two doses together.
- It may initiate overdose effects, however.
- Perhaps, you skip more than one regular dosage.
- Then tell your physician about the next dose.
Overdose
- Possibly you overdose on the pill of Zentel.
- Then you need to contact your GP quickly.
- Overdose can trigger mild or severe reactions too.
- If you notice anything, go to the hospital or nearby medical aid.
Side effects of Zentel
- You better seek medical care if you notice any allergic reactions.
- However, these reactions come up as difficulty breathing and hives.
- Moreover, it can be swelling of the throat, tongue, lips, or face.
- Also, you stay in touch with your physician if you observe:
- Chills
- Fever
- Sore throat
- Feeling light-headed
- Mouth sores
- A seizure
- Severe headaches
- Increased pressure in your skull
- Ringing inside the ears
- Nausea
- Dizziness
- Vision problems
- Pain behind the eyes
- Zentel’s common side effects are:
- Headache
- Increased sensitivity to light
- Neck stiffness
- Confusion
- Nausea
- Fever
- Vomiting
- Abnormal liver function tests
- Stomach pain
- Temporary hair loss
- Dizziness
- Spinning sensation
Precautions
- Maybe you have an allergy to albendazole or mebendazole. Then consult your doctor
- Perhaps you are fighting liver disease
- Or do you have an issue with bone marrow suppression
- Possibly you have eye issues, particularly with retina
- You avoid breastfeeding
- Zentel can harm a foetus
Interaction
- Carbamazepine
- Phenytoin
- Metronidazole
- Fosphenytoin
- Cimetidine
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