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Tablets are to be taken with or after food.
Amoebiasis, Balantidiasis, Blastocystis hominis infection: Adults: 400 to 800 mg three times daily for 5-10 days.
Children: 35 to 50 mg per kg body-weight daily in divided doses.
Giardiasis: Adults: 2 g daily as a single dose for 3 successive days.
Children: 15 mg per kg body-weight daily in divided doses.
Trichomoniasis: Adults: Single 2 g dose or a 7 day course of 200 mg three times daily or 400 mg twice daily or 2 day course of 800 mg in the morning and 1.2 g in the evening.
Sexual partners should be treated concomitantly.
Children: 15 mg per kg body-weight daily in divided doses for 7 days.
Bacterial vaginosis: Adults: Single 2 g dose or 7 day course of 400 mg twice daily.
Acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis, acute dental infections: 200 mg three times daily for 3 days.
Anaerobic bacterial infections: Adults: Initial dose of 800 mg followed by 400 mg every 8 hours for 7 days.
Children: 7.5 mg per kg body-weight every 8 hours.
