{"id":1316,"date":"2020-02-09T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T09:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barakat.ecastalia.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1316"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:16:15","slug":"pyramide","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/barakat-pharma.com\/product\/pyramide\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyramide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Properties:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loperamide is an anti-diarrheal agent, it is a synthetic opioid analogue which inhi\u00adbits gut motility and may also reduce gastrointestinal secretions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pyramide is used as an adjunct in the management of acute and chronic diarrheas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contraindications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hypersensitivity to drug.<\/li>\n<li>Patients with dysentery or if constipation must be avoided.<\/li>\n<li>Infants and children under 4 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Side effects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May cause: abdominal pain, nausea, dry mouth, dizziness, skin rashes, paral\u00adytic ileus particularly in infants and young children.<\/li>\n<li>A toxic hypertrophy in large intestine.<\/li>\n<li>May causes breakdown in the central nervous system in overdoses.<\/li>\n<li>The drug should not taken for more than two days &#8211; except if the physician decides that.<\/li>\n<li>The drug should not be used in overdoses without the supervision of the phy\u00adsician who&#8217;ll give the correct decision.<\/li>\n<li>PYRAMIDE should be used with caution in young children.<\/li>\n<li>If the diarrhea still continues after continuous three days of treat\u00adment. A medical supervision and a medical decision is essential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Precautions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pyramide should be used with caution in patients with hepatic dysfunction, infla\u00admmatory bowel disease or pseudomembranous colitis.<\/li>\n<li>It should be used during pregnancy only if dearly needed.<\/li>\n<li>Pyramide should be used with caution during lactation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dosage and administration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Acute diarrhea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adults:<\/strong> the initial dose is 4 mg followed by 2 mg after each loose stool to a max\u00adimum 16 mg daily. The usual daily dose is 6 to 8 mg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children 4-8 years:<\/strong> 1 mg four times daily up to 3 days. <strong>Children 9-12 years:<\/strong> 2 mg tour times daily up to 5 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chronic diarrhea:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adults:<\/strong> the usual initial dose is 4-8 mg daily in divided doses.<\/p>\n<p>If no improvement has been observed after treatment with 16 mg daily for at least 10 days, further administration is unlikely to be of benefit<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESENTATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boxes of 20 Capsules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dosage Form:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capsule<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>COMPOSITION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each capsule contains: Loperamide Hydrochloride 2 mg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1319,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[38],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barakat-pharma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barakat-pharma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barakat-pharma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barakat-pharma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barakat-pharma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barakat-pharma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barakat-pharma.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}