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INDICATIONS & DOSAGES : Anaerobic Infections: Adult: **0mg infused as**0ml of a 5 mg/ml solution at 5 ml/min 8 hrly. Alternatively,*5 mg/kg infusion followed by 7.5 mg/kg infusion followed by 7.5 mg/kg 6 hrly; infuse over 1 hr(max ; 4gm in 2 hr).Subtitute oral therapy as soon as possible. Child: 7.5 mg/kg 8 hrly. Elderly :use lower end of adult dose recommendations. Do not admin as single dose. PREVENTION OF POST OPERATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIAL INFECTIONS: Adult **0 mg by IV infusion shortly before operation and repeated hrly; oral doses of **0 mg or **0 mg 8 hrly being substitute as soon as possible. Patient undergoing colorectal surgery; *5mg/kg infused over *0 **0 min, completed about 1 hr prior to surgery, followed by 2 further IV doses of 7.5 mg/kg infused at 6 and *2 hr after the initial dose. Elderly : Use lower end of adult dose recommendations . Do not admin as single dose. CONTRA-INDICATIONS: Neurological disease, blood dyscrasias, fist trimester of pregnancySIDE-EFFECTS: Anorexia, nausea metallic taste, abdominal cramps headache,glossitis, dryness of mouth, dizziness, peripheral neuropathy, CNS effects, seizures. Thromboflebitis of injected vein.