Chlamydia

Doxycycline

Capsules

  • 1st line treatment for STIs
  • Antibiotic therapy
  • Well tolerated
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Doxycycline Medical Information

Doxycycline contains the active substance Doxycycline.

Doxycycline is an antibiotic belonging to a group of medicines called tetracyclines.

Doxycycline is used to treat many different types of infections including sexually transmitted diseases e.g. gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia.

The usual dose for sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia is 100mg twice daily for 7 days

The capsules should be swallowed with plenty of water. - It is best to take your capsules at the same time(s) each day, when sitting or while standing. - It is important not to lie down for at least thirty minutes after taking Doxycycline capsules, so that the capsule can move as swiftly as possible into the stomach and prevent irritation of the throat oroesophagus (canal taking food from the mouth to the stomach).

For the treatment of infections, Doxycycline capsules can be taken with or without food.

If Doxycycline capsules upset your stomach, then taking it with food or milk is recommended.

• If you are allergic to doxycycline, any other tetracycline antibiotic or any of the other ingredients of this medicine

• If you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant 

• If you are breastfeeding 

Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people)

- feeling or being sick

- worsening of a disease called systemic lupus erythematous (SLE). This is an allergic condition which causes joint pain, skin rash, fever and headache

- pericarditis (inflammation affecting the heart)

Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100 people)

- heartburn

- vaginal infection

Rare (may affect up to 1 in 1,000 people)

- anxiety

- difficulty in swallowing, sore or painful tongue or mouth - skin reddening (flushing)

- a ringing or buzzing noise in the ear

- soreness and itching of the rectal and/or genital area

- inflammation of the bowel

- bulging fontanelles (soft spot on head) of infants

- increased pressure in the skull (severe headache with change in vision)

- inflammation and damage to the liver

- abnormal liver function tests

- discolouration of the thyroid tissue when given for long periods. The medicine does not impair thyroid function

- loosening of the nail from the nail bed after exposure to the sun

- increased levels of urea in the blood

- yellow skin and eyes (jaundice), inflammation of the pancreas

- upset stomach, loss of appetite, diarrhoea (this may occur up to two or three months after the last dose), stomach pain

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