Chemotherapy of Helminthiasis Drugs Flashcards
What are the DOC for A. lumbricoides?
MAPyPi
Mebendazole
Albendazole
Pyrantel pamoate
Piperazine - used less dt occasional neurotox and hypersensitivity
What is less often used due to occasional neurotoxicity and hypersensitivity reactions?
Piperazine - it greatly reduces the motility of worms reducing the hazard of migration
Used for asymptomatic to moderate ascariasis and used with caution to treat heavy as caries infections alone or with hookworms
Mebendazole and albendazole
Used for heavy infections and safe for use during pregnancy
Pyrantel or piperazine
What to feed on host blood and fluids which causes iron deficiency anemia and malnutrition?
Hookworm
What are the first drug of choice for hookworms?
Albendazole and mebendazole
Heavy mixed infections with ascariasis
Paralyzes ascaris
Pyrantel pamoate
It is d/t penetration of skin of humans by larvae of dog hookworm (Ancylostoma brazilianse)
Cutaneous larva migrans
What is the drug of choice for creeping eruption or cutaneous larva migrans?
Albendazole or ivermectin
Topical or oral thiobendazole is for?
Cutaneous larva migrans
What is the most effective and safest drug for T. trichiura?
Mebendazole and albendazole
Pyr pam - ineffective
What is ineffective for the treatment of whipworm?
Pyrantel pamoate
What is the best drug for the treatment of Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)?
Ivermectin
Thiabendazole > albendazole > mebendazole
DOC for pinworm
Pyrantel pamoate and mendazole
Other treatment: albendazole
DOC for T. spiralis
Mebendazole and albendazole
Against intestinal forms
What controls the acute and dangerous symptoms of trichinella spiralis infection?
Glucocorticoids
What controls the acute and dangerous symptoms of trichinella spiralis infection?
Glucocorticoids
DOC for filariasis
Diethylcarbamazine
Treatment for filariae
Diethylcarbamazine and ivermectin
- single oral dose of either together with an oral dose of albendazole
Treatment for loaisis
Diethylcarbamazine
Oncocerciasis treatment
Ivermectin
Drinking water containing copepods that carry infective larvae?
Guinea/dragon/medina worm
AKA
Dracunculus medinensis
Drug of choice for Dracunculus medinensis
Metronidazole 250 mg TIB x 10 days
How do you remove slowly Dracunculus medinensis worm?
Draw the live adult female worm out day by day by rolling it on to a small piece of wood
Drug of choice for capillaria philippinensis
Albendazole
What is the drug of treatment for taenia saginata?
Praziquantel
Can also be: niclosamide
What is the drug of choice for the treatment of T. solium?
Praziquantel or niclosamide
Cysticercosis: albendazole and praziquantel
What is the drug of choice for D. latum?
Praziquantel
Can also niclosamide
What is the drug of choice for Hymenolepis nana?
Praziquantel
What is the drug of choice for Echinococcus granulosus?
Albendazole - adjuvant to surgery
What organs are involved in schistosoma?
S. mansoni & S. japonicum: liver spleen and GI tract
S. haematobium: lower gut
What is the drug of choice for schistosoma?
Praziquantel
What is effective against s haematobium but not effective against s monson e & s japonicum?
Metrifonate
What is the drug of choice for paragonimus westermani?
Praziquantel (clinical)
DOC for clonorchis sinensis (chinese liver fluke), opisthorchis viverrini and opisthorchis felineus
Praziquantel
What is the drug of choice for fasiola hepatica?
Bithionol 30-50mg/kg given on alternate days for 10-15 doses
Also Triclabendazole
Drug of choice for fasciolopsis buski
Praziquantel or niclosamide
What can interfere with insect sodium transport proteins; neurotoxicity and paralysis
Permethrin
5% cream, cream rinse, topical solutions
approved for infants greater than or equal to 2 months old
Permethrin
Organochlorine compound
Induces neuronal hyperstimulation and eventual paralysis of parasites
Lindane
Second-line drug due to neurotoxicity
Inc toxicity in: • children and adults less than 110 lbs • patients with underlying skin disorder - atopic dermatitis - psoriasis
Lindane
Organophosphate
Binds acetylcholinesterase in lice; paralysis and death
Approved for treatment of head lice in children less than or equal to six years old
Malathion
5% lotion
Treatment of lice - inhi lice from closing their respiratory spiracles (obstruction of spiracles) asphyxiation of lice
More likely to cause resistance than traditional pesticides
Benzyl alcohol
Oral anti helminthic drug
Treatment of onchocerciasis and strongyloidiasis
- also for scabies and lice
Ivermectin
What has no major cns toxicity because it does not cross the blood brain barrier?
Ivermectin (200ug/kg, may be repeated after a wk - not used in children <15kg)
S/E: dizziness, somnolence, vertigo, tremor
What are other treatments for infestations?
- 10% Crotamiton cream and lotion (Eurax)
- 5% pptd sulfur in petrolatum
- for px in whom Lindane or Permethrin are contraIx
What are the Benzimidazoles derivatives?
- Thiabendazole
- Mebendazole (prototype)
- Albendazole
What are versitile agents highly effective in ascariasis, intestinal capillariasis, enterobiasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm?
Benzimidazoles (TAM)