Inside, during or after a meal, (or squeezed milk), without chewing.
With trichomoniasis - 250 mg twice a day for 10 days or 400 mg twice a day for 5-8 days.
Women it is necessary to additionally appoint metronidazole in the form of vaginal suppositories or tablets. If necessary, you can repeat the course of treatment or increase the dose to 0.75-1 g / day. Between the courses should be a break in 3-4 weeks. with the conduct of repeated control laboratory tests.
An alternative scheme of therapy is the appointment of 2 g once to the patient and his sexual partner.
Children 3-5 years - 250 mg / day; 5-10 years - 250-375 mg / day, more than 10 years - 500 mg / day.
The daily dose should be divided into 2 divided doses. The course of treatment is 10 days.
With giardiasis - 500 mg twice a day for 5-7 days.
Children from 3 to 5 years old - 250 mg / day, 5-8 years - at 375 mg / day, over 8 years old - 500 mg / day (in 2 divided doses). The course of treatment is 5 days.
With giardiasis - 15 mg / kg / day in 3 divided doses for 5 days.
Adults: with asymptomatic amoebiasis (if a cyst is detected), the daily dose is 1-1.5 g (500 mg 2-3 times a day) for 5-7 days.
With chronic amebiasis daily dose of 1.5 g in 3 divided doses for 5-10 days, with acute amoebic dysentery 2.25 g in 3 doses until symptoms stop.
With liver abscess the maximum daily dose is 2.5 g in 1 or 2-3 doses, for 3 to 5 days, in combiination with antibiotics (tetracyclines) and other methods of therapy.
Children 3 years old - 1/4 of the adult dose, 3-7 years - 1/3 of the adult dose, 7-10 years old - 1/2 dose of an adult.
With balantidiasis - 750 mg 3 times a day for 5-6 days.
With ulcerative stomatitis adults appoint 500 mg twice a day for 3-5 days; children in this case, the drug is not shown.
With pseudomembranous colitis - 500 mg 3-4 times a day.
For eradication Helicobacter pylory - 500 mg 3 times a day for 7 days (as part of combination therapy, for example, combination with amoxicillin 2.25 g / day).
In the treatment of anaerobic infection the maximum daily vine is 1.5-2 g.
In the treatment of chronic alcoholism prescribe 500 mg / day for a period of up to 6 (not more) months.
For the prevention of infectious complications - 750-1500 mg / day in 3 divided doses 3-4 days before surgery, or once 1 g in the first day after the operation. In 1-2 days after the operation (when already allowed ingestion) - 750 mg / day for 7 days.
With severe renal dysfunction (CC less than 10 ml / min) daily dose should be reduced by half.