Eutirox 75 tablets
Active ingredient: levothyroxine sodium
Quantity: 84 pcs
Manufacturer: Merck Pharma GmbH
Indications:
- Thyroid gland (hypothyroidism)
- Prevention of recurrence Schrilddrüsenvergrößerung (Rezidivstruma) after successful treatment of an enlarged thyroid hormone production without
- Concomitant treatment with an overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) to achieve normal thyroid output
- Benign thyroid enlargement with normal thyroid output
- Suppression and replacement therapy in malignant Schilddüse of new bone formation, especially after removal of the thyroid
Contraindications:
Against all drug hypersensitivity reactions may occur, then you need to stop taking the drug immediately. If even an allergy to the drug or any of the other ingredients of the drug is known, it should not be used.
Medicines should not be used in:
- Freshly made heart attack
- Acute myocardial inflammation
- Inflammation of the inner heart wall, heart and pericardium (pancarditis)
- Hyperthyroidism (except adjuvant treatment for a thyroid after reaching the achievement of normal thyroid output)
- Untreated Nebennierenrindenschwäche (Addison's disease)
Dosage:
Underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism):
- Adults at the beginning of 25-50 mg levothyroxine sodium per day (increase every 2nd-4th week, at 25-50 mg), after which 100-200 mg levothyroxine sodium per day
- Children at the beginning 12,5-50 mg levothyroxine sodium per day, then 100-150 mg levothyroxine sodium per day
Prevention of recurrence Schrilddrüsenvergrößerung (Rezidivstruma):
- 75-200 mg levothyroxine sodium per day
Benign goiter without hormone production:
- 75-200 mg levothyroxine sodium per day
Concomitant treatment with a hyperactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) to achieve normal thyroid output:
- 50-100mg levothyroxine sodium per day
After removing the thyroid gland due to a malignant new bone formation of the thyroid:
- 150-300mg levothyroxine sodium per day
Patient Notes:
- In hypothyroidism and removal of the thyroid gland for malignant Gewebszubildung (Schilddrüsenmalignom) the application is usually needed throughout life.
-) For the treatment of thyroid enlargement without hormone production (euthyroid goiter and the prevention of a repeat thyroid enlargement (Strumarezidivprophylaxe) the income goes over a few months or years, possibly for life.
- The duration of adjuvant treatment for hyperthyroidism depends on the duration of taking drugs to suppress the formation of thyroid hormones.
Pregnancy:
During pregnancy and breast-feeding, you should take medication as possible only after consulting your doctor or pharmacist!
- The intake of thyroid hormones should be consistently carried out, especially during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
- A danger to the unborn child is not known.
- The thyroid hormones go into the breast milk, but the quantity is sufficient for the development of hyperthyroidism in the infant is not enough.
Type / method:
- The total daily intake in the morning on an empty stomach at least 1 / 2 hour before breakfast taken whole with some liquid.
- Infants receive the entire daily amount of at least 1 / 2 hours before the first day meal. For this purpose, the tablets can be divided into some water and administered the resulting distribution of fine (she is taking to prepare for any fresh) with a little more liquid.
Others:
- For older people, people with diseases of the coronary arteries and in people with severe or long-existing hypothyroidism take a dose of thyroid hormone is to start very carefully, ie a low initial amount and those with frequent checks of thyroid hormones and increase slowly at longer intervals.
- Crucial for the optimal personalized treatment of thyroid hormone is the control of thyroid hormone levels.
- For each application-coated tablets containing graded levels of 25 to 200mg of active ingredient levothyroxine sodium is available, so that usually only one tablet should be taken daily.
Before the start of ingestion of thyroid hormones prevent or treat the following diseases are:
- Diseases of the coronary arteries
- Decreased function of the pituitary gland and the adrenal gland (pituitary or adrenal insufficiency)
- Not a controlled release of thyroid hormones (thyroid autonomy)
- Paroxysmal pain in the heart area with tightness (angina pectoris)
- Hypertension
- The dose of the medicine in independently functioning thyroid gland enlargement with normal thyroid performance can lead to hyperthyroidism.
- Women at increased risk of osteoporosis should avoid excessive concentrations of thyroid hormones in the blood can be checked more frequently, the thyroid function.