Chloromycetin
Active Ingredient(s): ChloramphenicolFDA Approved: * December 8, 1950
Pharm Company: * PARKEDALE
Category: Antibiotics
* This drug may consist of multiple approval dates, manufacturers, or distributors. If applicable, they would be listed below under "NDC Database Records".
Chloromycetin Overview
Chloramphenicol is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections.[3] This includes use as an eye ointment to treat conjunctivitis.[4] By mouth or by injection into a vein, it is used to treat meningitis, plague, cholera, and typhoid fever.[3] Its use by mouth or by injection is only recommended when safer antibiotics cannot be used.[3] Monitoring both blood levels of the medication and blood cell leve...
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Chloramphenicol
- Capsule: 100mg, 250mg, 50mg
- Cream: 1%
- For Solution: 25mg/vial
- Injection: 1g, 1gm/vial, 250mg/ml
- Ointment: 1%
- Solution: 0.5%
- Solution/drops: 0.5%, 0.50%