Metronidazole 400mg

Metronidazole is an antibiotic medication. Antibiotics are medications that help the body fight off infections by killing or stopping the growth of the bacteria causing them. This allows the body to use its own defence mechanisms more effectively to get rid of the infection.

Because it can help treat bacterial infections, metronidazole is used to treat conditions like bacterial vaginosis.

Follow the instructions below to take your course of metronidazole.

For the 1-day course:

• Take 5 of the 400mg tablets together, as a single dose, during or after a meal
• Swallow the tablets whole with a glass of water
• Don’t chew or crush the tablets

For the 7-day course:

• Take one 400mg tablet of metronidazole twice a day for 7 days.
• You should try to space the doses evenly throughout the day. For example, you can take your morning dose at 9 am and your evening dose at 9 pm
• Swallow the tablets whole with a glass of water
• Don’t chew or crush the tablets
• Try to take metronidazole during a meal or just after

Always take metronidazole as you’ve been advised to by a doctor or pharmacist. Read the information leaflet included with the medication, carefully. It’s important to complete the whole course of metronidazole that you’ve been given, even if you feel better before the course is over. If you don’t finish the full course, some bacteria may stay alive. This means that you may be at risk of the infection coming back. Also, the bacteria that survive in your body may become resistant to metronidazole, so if you don’t complete your first course properly, a second course might not work as well either.

At ZAVA, we offer metronidazole to treat a condition called bacterial vaginosis (BV). BV is a condition that is caused by an increase in the number of naturally-occuring bacteria found in your vagina. Some women do not have any symptoms if they get BV, but others may experience an unusual discharge from the vagina, which may have a strong smell.

We also offer metronidazole for treating rosacea and trichomoniasis. Rosacea is a skin condition and trichomoniasis is a sexually-transmitted infection.

Metronidazole can also be used in other conditions, like:

• skin infections
• infections in the mouth, including dental abscesses
• preventing infections, for example if you are having surgery
• stomach ulcers, as part of a regime with other medications
• some complications of Crohn’s disease

You shouldn’t take metronidazole if you’re allergic to metronidazole, nitroimidazoles, or any of the other ingredients in metronidazole tablets.

Tell a doctor or pharmacist before taking metronidazole if you:

• have, or ever have had, a liver problem
• are having kidney dialysis
• have a disease which involves the nervous system
• have a conditioned called Cockayne syndrome

Some medications can affect how metronidazole works in the body. Metronidazole can also affect how these other medications work too. So, you should tell a doctor or pharmacist before taking metronidazole if you’re already taking:

• medications that thin your blood (anticoagulants), such as warfarin. Metronidazole can increase the effectiveness of these medications so you may need to take a lower dose while you’re taking metronidazole
• lithium: taking lithium and metronidazole together can affect your kidneys
• medications to treat epilepsy, like phenytoin, primidone, or phenobarbitone
• 5-fluorouracil: usually used for cancer treatment
• busulfan: usually used to treat cancer of the blood (leukaemia)
• ciclosporin: usually used after organ transplant
• disulfiram: usually used in people who are recovering from alcohol addiction