Tavanic 500 mg 5 tablets

Trade name:

Tavanik

Tavanic

Composition

Each tablet contains:

levofloxacin hemihydrate 512.46 mg,

which corresponds to the content of levofloxacin 500 mg.

Auxiliary components:

hypromellose, crospovidone, microcrystalline cellulose, sodium stearyl fumarate.

Properties

A synthetic antibacterial drug of a broad spectrum of action from the group of fluoroquinolones, containing as an active substance levofloxacin — the levorotatory isomer of ofloxacin. Levofloxacin blocks DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV, disrupts supercoiling and stitching of DNA breaks, inhibits DNA synthesis, and causes deep morphological changes in the cytoplasm, cell wall and membranes of microbial cells.

Levofloxacin is active against most strains of microorganisms, both in vitro and in vivo.

Indications

Treatment of infectious and inflammatory diseases caused by microorganisms sensitive to levofloxacin:

— community-acquired pneumonia;

-complicated urinary tract infections and pyelonephritis;

Contraindications

-epilepsy;

-pseudoparalytic myasthenia gravis (myastenia gravis);

— tendon lesions associated with a history of fluoroquinolones;

Side effects

From the nervous system: often — headache, dizziness; infrequently — drowsiness, tremors, dysgeusia (taste perversion); rarely — paresthesia, convulsions.

Mental disorders: often — insomnia; infrequently — a feeling of anxiety, confusion.

From the digestive system: often — diarrhea, vomiting, nausea; infrequently — abdominal pain, dyspepsia, flatulence, constipation.