Ciprophil Indications/Uses

Ciprofloxacin is indicated for the treatment of a wide scope of infections which includes anthrax, infected bites and stings, infections of the biliary tract, bone and joints, brucellosis, cat scratch disease, chancroid, exacerbations of cystic fibrosis, gastroenteritis which includes traveler’s diarrhea and campylobacter enteritis, salmonella enteritis, cholera and shigellosis, gonorrhea, neutropenia in immunocompromised patients with infections, Legionnaire’s disease, otitis media and otitis externa, peritonitis, Q fever, lower respiratory tract infections to include pseudomonal infections in cystic fibrosis except infections caused by Streptococcus pneumonia (e.g. pneumococcal pneumonia), septicemia, skin and soft tissue infections, spotted fevers, typhoid and paratyphoid fever, typhus, infections of the urinary tract, tuberculosis and opportunistic mycobacterial infections.
It is also used in the prophylaxis of meningococcal meningitis and surgery.