Inside, after eating, squeezed with enough liquid.
Adults (initial treatment period): single dose - 15 mg / kg of body weight / day; continuous treatment: usually 20 mg / kg body weight / day.
In a repeated course of treatment in adults, 25 mg / kg body weight once a day for 2 months, then 15 mg / kg once a day.
The dose can be increased to 30 mg / kg of body weight per day (but not more than 2.0 g) during the initial treatment period, with relapse of the disease, with the resistance of Koch sticks to other anti-tuberculosis drugs.
Children from the age of 13 appoint at the rate of 15-25 mg / kg body weight (but not more than 1.0 g), once, after breakfast. The full course of treatment lasts 9 months.
With kidney diseases dosage of the drug is adjusted depending on the creatinine clearance.
When creatinine clearance is more than 100 ml / min, the daily dose is 20 mg / kg body weight / day, 70-100 ml / min - 15 mg / kg, less than 70 ml / min - 10 mg / kg, hemodialysis 5 mg / kg , on the day of dialysis-7 mg / kg.
In patients who have previously taken drugs with tuberculostatic action, the resistance of bacteria develops more often. In such cases, Etambutol-Acry® should be taken with at least one or two antituberculosis drugs that the patient had not previously taken and against which no bacterial resistance was noted.