AMODIAQUINE = AQ oral
Therapeutic action
– Antimalarial
Indications
– Treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria, in combination with artesunate
– Treatment of uncomplicated malaria due to other Plasmodium species, in combination with artesunate, when chloroquine cannot be used
– Completion treatment following parenteral therapy for severe malaria, in combination with artesunate
Forms and strengths
– 200 mg amodiaquine hydrochloride tablet, containing 153 mg amodiaquine base
Dosage and duration
– Child and adult: 10 mg base/kg once daily for 3 days, in combination with artesunate
Contra-indications, adverse effects, precautions
– Do not administer in the event of previous severe adverse reaction to treatment with amodiaquine (e.g. hypersensitivity reaction, hepatitis, leucopenia, agranulocytosis).
– Do not administer to patients taking efavirenz.
– May cause: gastrointestinal disturbances, pruritus, cough, insomnia.
– Pregnancy: no contra-indication
– Breast-feeding: no contra-indication
Remarks
– Also comes as co-packaged dispersible tablets for seasonal malaria chemoprevention in children: amodiaquine 153 mg + sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine 500 mg/25 mg and amodiaquine 76.5 mg + sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine 250 mg/12.5mg.
– Storage: below 25 °C -