Ingredients/Content

100 mg of Diethylcarbamazine

Product descriptions 

Banocide 100 (100 mg of diethylcarbamazine citrate) is an anthelmintic used to prevent and treat worm infections that can cause swelling of the arms, legs or other body parts. Alternatively, it is used to prevent and treat eye worm infections that can cause blindness and worm infections that can cause joint, connective tissue, nervous system or breathing disorders.

However, it is not recommended to prevent or treat infections caused by urinary worms and tapeworms with this product. 

Efficacy/effectiveness

- Lymphatic filamentosis: used for the prevention and treatment of lymphoid filamentosis by Wucheria bancrofti, Brugia malayi and Brugia timori. It is a disease characterized by severe swelling of the arms, legs, or genitals.

- Royasis: used for the prevention and treatment of Royasis, a bug infection in the eye caused by roaroa that is transmitted by bites of flies or mango flies.

- Toxocariasis: used for the prevention and treatment of toxocariasis, a bug infection that can cause rheumatoid, neurological and asthma symptoms and rare blindness.

- Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia: Recommended as a first-line treatment for tropical pulmonary eosinophilia, characterized by persistent cough, weakness, mild fever, and spleen hypertrophy induced by Wucheria bancrofti and exacerbated at night.

How to take it

Oral administration of 6 mg/kg/day for 12 days for vancropathy. Oral administration of 3-6 mg/kg/day for 6-12 days for vancropathy. Reduction therapy is also performed to reduce side effects. For roeaphilia, 1 mg/kg is administered on the first day, 2 mg/kg on the second or third day, and 2-3 mg/kg is administered three times a day for the next 18 days. For tropical eosinophilia, 2 mg/kg is administered orally three times a day for 7 days. In the case of vancropathy or Malyphaly, 50 mg is administered every month as chemotherapy. For roeaphilia, 300 mg is administered weekly or 300 mg/day for three consecutive days, a total of 900 mg is used.

Precautions for use

It should be used with caution for patients with other acute conditions, or with epilepsy or heart disease, and should be taken in consultation with their doctors. In some patients, it can cause blurred vision, drowsiness, and dizziness. In addition, prolonged use of this drug can lead to tunnel vision, night blindness, or loss of vision.

Side effects

Headache, dizziness, vomiting, abnormal liver function, nausea, abdominal pain, hair loss, fever