Levomycetin - eye drops for children

If there are appropriate indications, eye drops of levomycetin for children are prescribed often enough. The active substance is chloramphenicol. The composition of eye drops of levomycetin also includes boric acid and water. The drug refers to antibiotics and demonstrates high effectiveness in combating bacteria that can provoke the development of serious diseases. These include trachoma, which until the discovery of antibiotics caused complete blindness.

Action of Levomycetin

Levomycetin successfully treats psittacosis, which causes damage to the lungs, nervous system, spleen and liver. Its effectiveness against certain strains of bacteria, insensitive to streptomycin, penicillin and sulfonamide preparations, has been clinically proven. Levomycetin does not cause addiction, resistance to the drug in pathogens develops slowly enough. The most common indications for the use of drops of levomycetin are conjunctivitis, blepharitis, keratitis. The main symptoms that indicate inflammatory processes in the eyes are pain, redness, corneal opacity. If treatment of conjunctivitis in children with the help of levomycetin can still be carried out independently, more serious diseases require qualified intervention. It is very difficult to diagnose the disease on your own, so it's better to go to the hospital right away.

Features of treatment with neonatal levomycetin

About the question, whether it is possible for children to drip levomycetin, is indicated by an abstract to the preparation, which indicates that it has been used since the age of four months. But in some cases, pediatricians prescribe drops of levomycetin and for newborns, since there is a need to fight with acute infections that are not amenable treatment with other drugs (salmonellosis, diphtheria, brucellosis, typhus, pneumonia, etc.). In such situations, dosage of levomycetin to children is prescribed minimal and only by a doctor! The fact is that exceeding the dose of the drug may inhibit the production of its own protein in the child's body, which is very dangerous.

The use of levomycetin for children up to a year can provoke a "gray syndrome". Its signs are disturbances of breathing, lowering of temperature, gray-blue shade of the skin. Kidneys because of a lack of enzymes work slowly, there is intoxication, affecting the blood vessels and heart.

Side effects also include allergic reactions, suppression of intestinal microflora, lowering of hemoglobin level, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.