Injections

Composition

Artesunate 60mg

Description

Artesunate is a white crystalline powder odorless and almost tasteless.

Indications

Artesunate is developed for killing the erythrocytic stage of plasmodium asexual form. It is effective to malaria caused by chloroquine resistant stain of plasmodium falciparum. It can quickly and reliably control the acute attack of malaria. It is suitable to salvage the patients with pernicious malaria and treat P. falciparum malaria and P. vivax malaria. Artesunate Injection is indicated for the treatment of serious malaria infections and the patients with cerebral malaria.

Pharmacologic Actions

Artesunate has an excellent anti-malarial activity on the asexual forms of malaria parasites with high, quick efficiency to bring about rapid control of an acute attack. It has advantages of no cross resistance to Chloroquine.

Adverse Effects

• Artesunate is generally safe and well-tolerated. The recognized side effect of the artemesinins that they lower reticulocyte counts.
• Delayed haemolysis

Drug Interactions

Before taking this medicine, tell the doctor about any medical problems or alleries that the patient has now or was having in the past.

Contraindications

The drug is contraindicated in patients with prior hypersensitivity to artesunate or artemisinin derivatives.

Oral artesunate should not be used during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Conclusion

From the above discussion, it can be concluded that this Artesunate improve the quality of life from Plasmodium Malaria , Severe Malaria , Cerebral Malaria.