Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Beef Tapeworm.
Albendazole is given in a medication of 400 mg orally twice daily for 10 to 28 days; praziquantel is given in a dose of 50 to 100 mg/kg/day in tierce divided doses for 30 days.19 Albendazole appears to be slightly more effective than praziquantel at kill cysticercosis cysts.102 Because communication may causal agent inflammatory reactions to develop around cysticerci, ocular cysticercosis and spinal cysticercosis are not usually treated medically; an ophthalmologic test is indicated before drug therapy to rule out intraocular cysticercosis, which could lead to devastating symptom. For patients with neurocysticercosis, corticosteroids (e.g., dexamethasone, 4 to 16 mg/day, or prednisone, 60 to 100 mg/day) are usually given 1 to 2 days before and during management with albendazole or praziquantel to minimize inflammatory reactions. Patients who are taking anticonvulsant medications for neurocysticercosis should continue to use them during this idiom, but many such patients can stop taking antiseizure medications after cysticercosis therapy.107,108 CT photography should be repeated 3 to 6 months after therapy, to determine whether any of the cysts are quiet viable; therapy should be repeated if viable cysts remain.
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