Tetracycline Hydrochloride (Oral)

Tetracycline is the drug of choice in the following infections :

• Ricketsial infection (Rocky Mountain spotted fever, endemic and scrub typhus fever and human ehrlichiosis).
• Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in adults. Outbreaks of pneumonia caused by this organism are common in barracks and institutions. Most cases occur in children and young adults. Maculopapular rashes, haemolytic anaemia and meningo-encephalitis occur rarely.
• Chlamydial Infections: Chlamydia psittaci: This organism is the cause of psittacosis (ornithosis), a systemic illness contracted from infected birds. The pneumonia associated with it may be extensive, and severe systemic upset and death are common.Headache is a prominent early symptom.
• Non-gonococcal or non specific urethritis: Inflammation of the urethra not resulting from gonococcal, chlamydial, or other specific infectious agents.
• Lyme disease
• Brucellosis
• Miscellaneous infections, including granuloma inguinale, cholera, glanders, relapsing fever and V. vulnifians.

Other common uses of tetracycline include the following:

• Urinary Tract Infections with susceptible organisms (including the acute urethral syndrome in women).
• Bronchitis in patients with known underlying chronic lung diseases.
• Pelvic inflammatory disease and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) regimen.
• Travelers diarrhoea.
• Acne vulgaris
• Prostatitis.
• As an alternative agent in the penicillin allergic patient with syphilis.
• Anaerobic infections with susceptible organisms.