Medicine
(generic name)
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MEDICINES
Local brand
(write in)
Price
(write in)
Amount
recommended
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FOR BACTERIAL INFECTIONS:
1. Penicillin,
250 mg. tablets
2. Cotrimoxazole
(sulfamethoxazole,
400 mg., with
trimethoprim, 80 mg.)
3. Ampicillin,
250 mg. capsules
FOR WORMS:
4. Mebendazole
tablets
FOR FEVER AND PAIN:
5. Aspirin, 300 mg.
(5 grain) tablets
6. Acetaminophen,
500 mg. tablets
FOR ANEMIA:
7. Iron (ferrous sulfate),
200 mg, pills (best if pills
also contain vitamin C
and folic acid)
FOR SCABIES AND LICE:
8. Permethrin
FOR ITCHING AND VOMITING:
9. Promethazine,
25 mg. tablets
FOR MILD SKIN INFECTIONS:
10. Gentian violet,
small bottle; or an
antibiotic ointment
FOR EYE INFECTIONS:
11. Antibiotic eye
ointment
40 350
100
24
40 tablets
of 100 mg.
or 2 bottles
357
352
373
50 378
50 379
100 392
1 bottle
of shampoo
1 tube of cream
372
12 385
1 bottle
1 tube
370
1 tube
378