Doxycycline 100mg capsules 100’s

The name of your medicine is Doxycycline 100 mg Capsules. It belongs to a group of medicines called tetracycline antibiotics. It may be used to treat a wide range of infections caused by bacteria, these include: •Chest, lung or nasal infections e.g. bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis. •Infections of the kidneys and bladder e.g. cystitis, urethritis. •Infections of the skin such as acne. •Eye infections. •Sexually transmitted diseases e.g. gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia. •Rickettsial infections such as Q fever or fevers associated with louse or tick bites. •Malaria, when chloroquine is not effective. •Other infections such as cholera, brucellosis, leptospirosis and psittacosis. Doxycycline capsules are also used to prevent certain infections developing such as scrub typhus, travellers’ diarrhoea, malaria and leptospirosis (a bacterial infection caused by exposure to bacteria in fresh water contaminated by animal urine).