Tablets 500 mg
Trade name: Ornidazole, tablets 500 mg.
International non- proprietary name: Ornidazole.
Description: white or white yellowish round biconvex tablets.
Composition: each tablet contains:
Active substance: ornidazole – 500 mg.
Excipients: potato starch, sodium lauryl sulphate, povidone, sodium starch glycolate (of type A), anhydrous colloidal silicon dioxide, talc, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, Opadry ll coating (85 G18490).
Composition of the Opadry ll coating (85 G18490): polyvinyl alcohol, titanium hydroxide, talc, macrogol/polyethylene glycol 3350, lecithin (soybean).
Pharmacotherapeutic group: Other antibacterial drugs.
Antiprotozoal drugs.
ATC code: J01XD03.
Indications for use:
► trichomoniasis in women and men (urogenital infections in women and men caused by Trichomonas vaginalis);
► amebiasis (all intestinal infections caused by Entamoeba histolytica, including amoebic dysentery all abentric amebiasis types, especially hepatic amoebiasis);
► giardiasis;
► prevention of anaerobic infections during large bowel surgeries and gynecological manipulations.
