Colchicine is an anti-inflammatory drug, used to treat or prevent acute gout attacks, according to medical indication.
This medicine can be purchased in pharmacies, generic or under the trade name Colchis, in boxes of 20 or 30 tablets, after presentation of prescription.
- Colchicine is a medicine used to treat acute gout attacks and to prevent acute seizures in people with chronic gouty arthritis.
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In addition, treatment with this medicine may be indicated in Peyronie’s disease, familial Mediterranean fever and in cases of scleroderma, sarcoidosis-associated arthritis and psoriasis.
For the prevention of gout attacks, the recommended dose is 1 tablet of 0.5 mg, one to three times daily, orally. Patients with gout undergoing surgery should take 1 tablet three times a day, every 8 hours, orally, 3 days before and 3 days after surgery.
For acute crisis relief, the initial dose should be 0.5 mg to 1.5 mg followed by 1 tablet with an interval of 1 hour, or 2 hours, until pain or nausea, vomiting or diarrhea occurs.
Chronic patients may continue treatment with a maintenance dose of 2 tablets per day, every 12 hours, up to 3 months, at the physician’s discretion.
The maximum dose should not exceed 7 mg per day
Treatment should be initiated with 0.5 mg to 1.0 mg per day, administered in one or two doses, which may be increased to 2 mg per day, administered in two or three doses.
This remedy should not be used in people allergic to any of the components present in the formula, people suffering from severe gastrointestinal, liver, kidney or cardiac diseases.
It should also not be used in children, pregnant women or breastfeeding women.
The most common side effects that can occur when using this medicine are diarrhea, vomiting and nausea, fatigue, headache, gout, cramps, abdominal pain and larynx and pharynx pain.
In addition, although it is rarer, hair loss, spinal depression, dermatitis, changes in blood and liver clotting, allergic reactions, increased creatine phosphokquinas, lactose intolerance, muscle pain, reduced spermatozoids, violet, destruction of muscle cells and toxic neuromuscular disease.