Alamycin 10

Name:

 Alamycin 10

Category:

 Antibiotics

Region:

 United Kingdom

A stable aqueous solution for injection containing the equivalent of Oxytetracycline Hydrochloride Ph.Eur 100 mg/ml, plus Sodium Formaldehyde Sulphoxylate 0.15% w/v as antioxidant.

Oxytetracycline is active against a wide range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria, certain rickettsia and the larger viruses. Alamycin 10 is indicated in the treatment and control of a wide range of common systemic, respiratory, gastro-intestinal, urinary and local infections caused by, or associated with, organisms sensitive to oxytetracycline.

By intramuscular or slow intravenous injection.
Cattle: 1.5 - 4.0 mg/kg bodyweight daily for 3-5 days.
Pigs: 2.0 - 9.0 mg/kg bodyweight daily for 3-5 days

General toxicity is low although collapse has been reported with tetracycline in weak or debilitated animals.

Milk taken from treated cows should not be used for human consumption during treatment and for 84 hours after treatment. Animals must not be slaughtered for human consumption during treatment. Animals may be slaughtered for human consumption only after 20 days from the last treatment.

Store at room temperature, not exceeding 25ºC. Protect from light. Keep out of reach of children. Following withdrawal of the first dose, use the product within 28 days. Discard unused material.

When the container is broached (opened) for the first time, the date on which any product remaining in the container should be discarded should be calculated. A statement of the in-use shelf life of the product is given on the package insert. This discard date should be written in the space provided on the label.

POM-V

Multidose vials of 50 ml and 100 ml.

Norbrook Laboratories Ltd

Vm 02000/4037