You are running a travel clinic with your pharmacy and as an independent prescriber you can write prescriptions for malarial prophylaxis. Within your clinic, you use the maximum recommended treatment length for all courses. A family of two are travelling to Ghana for 14 days. The most recent weights of the family members are shown below. Mum: 54kg Child 1: 27kg Below are the prices that you charge each of the drugs that are suitable for this family. They can either all take Lariam or the Malarone/Malarone Paediatric Lariam tabs £14.48 per pack (8 tablets) Malarone £25.20 per pack (12 tablets) Malarone Paediatric £6.24 per pack (12 tablets) Using the information available to you and the relevant SPC (at the end of the worksheet), calculate the price difference between the two regimens. (Give your answer to the nearest pound) (Lariam 250 mg tablets) Active ingredient -mefloquine hydrochloride Legal Category - POM: Prescription only medicine 4.2 Posology and method of administration Chemoprophylaxis For malaria prophylaxis the stated dose of Lariam should be given once weekly, always on the same day. In order to ensure, before arrival in endemic area, that Lariam administration is well tolerated, it is recommended to start chemoprophylaxis with Lariam 10 days before departure (i.e. first intake 10 days before departure and 2nd intake 3 days before departure). Subsequent doses should be taken once a week (on a fixed day). Treatment should be continued for 4 weeks after leaving a malarious area (minimum treatment period 6 weeks). The maximum recommended duration of administration of Lariam is 12 months. The recommended chemoprophylactic dose of Lariam is approximately 5 mg/kg bodyweight once weekly. The following dosage schedule is given as a guide: Adults and children of more than 45 kg bodyweight 1 tablet Children and adults weighing less than 45 kg 5 – 19 kg ¼ tablet 1/ 4 tablet 20 – 30 kg ½ tablet 1/ 4 tablet 31 – 45 kg ¾ tablet 3/ 4 tablet The tablets should be swallowed whole preferably after a meal with plenty of liquid
You are running a travel clinic with your pharmacy and as an independent
prescriber you can write prescriptions for malarial prophylaxis. Within your clinic,
you use the maximum recommended treatment length for all courses.
A family of two are travelling to Ghana for 14 days. The most recent weights
of the family members are shown below.
Mum: 54kg
Child 1: 27kg
Below are the prices that you charge each of the drugs that are suitable for this family. They
can either all take Lariam or the Malarone/Malarone Paediatric
Lariam tabs £14.48 per pack (8 tablets)
Malarone £25.20 per pack (12 tablets)
Malarone Paediatric £6.24 per pack (12 tablets)
Using the information available to you and the relevant SPC (at the end of the worksheet), calculate the price difference between the two regimens. (Give your answer to the nearest pound)
(Lariam 250 mg tablets)
Active ingredient -mefloquine hydrochloride
Legal Category - POM: Prescription only medicine
4.2 Posology and method of administration
Chemoprophylaxis
For malaria prophylaxis the stated dose of Lariam should be given once weekly, always on the same day.
In order to ensure, before arrival in endemic area, that Lariam administration is well tolerated, it is
recommended to start chemoprophylaxis with Lariam 10 days before departure (i.e. first intake 10 days
before departure and 2nd intake 3 days before departure). Subsequent doses should be taken once a
week (on a fixed day).
Treatment should be continued for 4 weeks after leaving a malarious area (minimum treatment period 6
weeks). The maximum recommended duration of administration of Lariam is 12 months.
The recommended chemoprophylactic dose of Lariam is approximately 5 mg/kg bodyweight once weekly.
The following dosage schedule is given as a guide:
Adults and children of more than 45 kg bodyweight 1 tablet
Children and adults weighing less than 45 kg
5 – 19 kg ¼ tablet 1/ 4 tablet
20 – 30 kg ½ tablet 1/ 4 tablet
31 – 45 kg ¾ tablet 3/ 4 tablet
The tablets should be swallowed whole preferably after a meal with plenty of liquid
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