Flagyl ( Metronidazole )

Metronidazole is an antibiotic effective against anaerobic bacteria and parasites. Anaerobic bacteria are single-celled that living organisms thrive in environments where there is little oxygen (anaerobic environments) and can lead to disease in the stomach (bacterial peritonitis), liver (liver abscess) and pelvis (abscess of the ovaries and fallopian tubes). Giardia lamblia and amoeba are gastro-intestinal parasites, which can cause abdominal pain and diarrhoea in people infected. Trichomonas vaginalis is a parasite that causes the vaginal inflammation (vaginitis). Metronidazole selectively blocks some of the functions in cells and bacterial parasites that are in their death.

Metronidazole is indicated for the treatment of parasitic infections, including infections of Giardia small intestine, liver amoebic abscess and amoebic dysentery (large intestine infection causes bloody diarrhoea), bacterial vaginosis, Trichomonas vaginal infections and holders of Trichomonas ( two sexual partners), which have not Symptoms of infection. Metronidazole is also alone or in combination with other antibiotics in the treatment of liver abscesses in the pelvis, stomach and brain, caused by anaerobic bacteria. Metronidazole is also in the treatment of colon infection by a bacterium called C. difficile. (Antibiotics are commonly used type of bacteria that inhabit the colon. C. difficile is an anaerobic bacterium that can infect both points, if the normal types of bacteria in the large intestine are inhibited by antibiotics. It leads to inflammation of the two points (PMC) with diarrhoea and abdominal pain). Metronidazole is also in combination with other drugs for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) that causes stomach ulcers or gastrointestinal. Metronidazole gel is used for the treatment of acne rosacea, and the vaginal gel is used to treat bacterial vaginosis.