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How is Stromectol 3 mg counted by weight?

Medically reviewed by Dr. Yuki Tanaka, MD - Clinical pharmacology, Toronto

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Bone review card, cobalt edge, lime chip: weight chip 200, stack of 3 mg

200 mcg/kg. Human Stromectol dosing for intestinal strongyloidiasis is a single oral amount designed to give about 200 mcg of ivermectin per kilogram. The tablet is 3 mg. You count from the label table, or you calculate once weight exceeds the printed bands. This is not a 6 mg US tablet. Empty stomach with water. Stool dates belong on the same card as the integer. Panel.

What are the printed strongyloides bands?

15 to 24 kg: one 3 mg tablet. 25 to 35 kg: two. 36 to 50 kg: three. 51 to 65 kg: four. 66 to 79 kg: five. 80 kg or more: calculate 200 mcg/kg.

Read the band you are in. Do not average two bands. The weight-dose signal is the arithmetic sibling.

Why do people ask for a 6 mg tablet after they hear 200 mcg/kg?

Because two 3 mg tablets equal 6 mg. That is a count, not a US strength. This board will not invent a 6 mg Stromectol tablet.

Same trap at 12 mg: four 3 mg tablets. PK papers used that research swallow. Retail stays 3 mg. See the 3 mg lock.

Is 200 mcg/kg a daily habit or one day?

One oral amount for intestinal, nondisseminated strongyloidiasis. Additional doses are generally unnecessary. Follow-up stools verify eradication.

Weekly 'immune' 200 mcg/kg is a forum invention. This scan will not print it. Repeats that a clinician owns sit on the repeat scan.

What belongs on the same card as the 200 mcg/kg integer?

The planned stool dates. A perfect multiplication without follow-up is an unfinished rating. Comparative work used two exams at three to four weeks.

If larvae return, retreatment is a clinic call. Do not double tonight because the bottle is still full. Indication literacy: label lane.

What changes at 80 kg?

The printed integer ends. You calculate 200 mcg per kilogram and convert to 3 mg tablets. A 90 kg adult is 18 mg, which is six tablets, not a 6 mg tablet.

Write the multiplication on paper. Verbal 'about five' fails at band borders. Tape the numbers to the bag if caregivers share the job.

Which weight do you use if the chart is a year old?

Today's kilograms. A count calculated at 64 kg is wrong at 82 kg. Recalculate from the table. Do not add one extra for luck.

Children move bands faster than adults. Reweigh before a refill story. The 15 to 24 kg row is one tablet, empty stomach, water.

Sources

  1. DailyMed Dosage and Administration, Table 1 strongyloidiasis ~200 mcg/kg, 3-mg tablet bands
  2. DailyMed: in general additional doses are not necessary; follow-up stool examinations

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Answers follow the U.S. Stromectol label.

Soren H., Harbour Can I use 200 mcg/kg for a cough because that is 'the ivermectin dose'?

Board reply

No. 200 mcg/kg on this board is the strongyloides oral target. COVID-19 is not a labelled row. See the COVID scan.

Anika M., Gerrard How is Stromectol 3 mg counted by weight?

Board reply

Aim at about 200 mcg/kg for intestinal strongyloidiasis. Read the 3 mg bands or calculate at 80 kg or more. 66 to 79 kg is five tablets. Empty stomach with water.

Wes P., Dupont I am 85 kg. Is that still five tablets?

Board reply

No. At 80 kg or more you calculate 200 mcg/kg. 85 kg times 200 mcg is 17 mg, which is not a tidy five-tablet band. Your clinician turns that into a 3 mg integer. Do not stay on last year's five.