(ciprofloxacin injection)

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What is ciprofloxacin?

What is ciprofloxacin?

  • urinary tract infection
  • chronic prostate infection
  • lower respiratory tract infection
  • sinus infection
  • skin infection
  • bone and joint infection
  • nosocomial pneumonia
  • intra-abdominal infection, complicated
  • infectious diarrhea
  • typhoid (enteric) fever
  • cervical and urethral gonorrhea, uncomplicated
  • people with a low white blood cell count and a fever
  • inhalational anthrax
  • plague
  • Studies of ciprofloxacin for use in the treatment of plague and anthrax were done in animals only, because plague and anthrax could not be studied in people.
  • Ciprofloxacin should not be used in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, acute uncomplicated cystitis, and sinus infections, if there are other treatment options available.
  • Ciprofloxacin should not be used as the first choice of antibacterial medicine to treat lower respiratory tract infections caused by a certain type of bacterial called Streptococcus pneumoniae.
  • Ciprofloxacin Injection, USP is also used in children younger than 18 years of age to treat complicated urinary tract and kidney infections or who may have breathed in anthrax germs, have plague or have been exposed to plague germs.
  • Children younger than 18 years of age have a higher chance of getting bone, joint, or tendon (musculoskeletal) problems such as pain or swelling while taking ciprofloxacin. Ciprofloxacin should not be used as the first choice of antibacterial medicine in children under 18 years of age.

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