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compositionComposition:FURAZOLIDONE-75MG+METRONIDAZOLE-200MG
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Deemet F Suspension is used to treat bacterial infections, dysentery and diarrhoea. It contains furazolidone and metronidazole, which kill the parasites and bacteria that cause infections. In some cases, this medicine may cause side effects such as nausea, dry mouth, headache, metallic taste, and discolouration of urine. Inform the doctor if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, taking any other medication, or have any pre-existing medical conditions.

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Written By Santoshini Reddy G , M Pharmacy
Reviewed By Dr Aneela Siddabathuni , MPharma., PhD
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More about the Product

Composition :

FURAZOLIDONE-75MG+METRONIDAZOLE-200MG

Manufacturer/Marketer :

Lark Laboratories

Consume Type :

Oral

Expires on or after :

Dec-28

Return Policy :

Not Returnable

About Deemet F Suspension

Deemet F Suspension is a prescription medicine used to treat infectious diarrhea, dysentery, and certain intestinal infections caused by harmful bacteria or tiny parasites. It works by clearing these germs directly from your digestive tract, helping your bowel movements return to normal.

To get the best results, you must take Deemet F Suspension regularly at evenly spaced times throughout the day and complete the entire course prescribed by your doctor, even if you start feeling better. It is best to take this medicine with food to help reduce stomach upset and protect your digestive lining. While recovering, drinking plenty of clear fluids and eating bland, easy-to-digest foods can help support your gut's healing process.

While taking this medicine, you might experience mild side effects like a dark-colored urine, a metallic taste in your mouth, or mild nausea. These are generally harmless and go away, but you should contact your doctor immediately if you notice more serious signs like a severe skin rash, tingling in your hands or feet, or persistent dizziness.

Before starting Deemet F Suspension, tell your doctor if you have a history of nerve disorders, blood diseases, or severe liver damage. Do not take this medicine if you have a known allergy to any of its active components, or if you have a genetic condition called G6PD deficiency, as it can cause serious blood issues.

Avoid alcohol during treatment with Deemet F Suspension and for some time after your last dose, as advised by your doctor, as it may cause nausea, vomiting, flushing, headache, and a rapid heartbeat. It also interacts with certain blood thinners and cough syrups, so check with your pharmacist before taking other products. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or managing health conditions in an elderly family member, talk to your doctor or pharmacist before starting this treatment.

Uses of Deemet F Suspension

Deemet F Suspension is used to treat certain bacterial and parasitic infections of the digestive tract. The detailed uses of Deemet F Suspension are as follows: 

  • Infectious diarrhoea: It targets and eliminates the harmful bacteria in your gut that cause sudden watery stools.
  • Amoebic dysentery: It clears parasites responsible for severe abdominal pain, cramping, and bloody stools.
  • Giardiasis: It destroys the protozoan parasites in the small intestine that cause bloating, gas, and greasy, foul-smelling diarrhoea.

Key Benefits

Deemet F Suspension helps treat bacterial and parasitic infections of the digestive tract, relieving symptoms and supporting a faster recovery. The key benefits are as follows: 

  • Relieves Diarrhoea and Stomach Discomfort: Helps reduce the frequency of loose stools and relieves abdominal pain, cramping, bloating, and gas caused by intestinal infections.
  • Supports Recovery from Intestinal Infections: Helps eliminate the organisms responsible for the infection, allowing the digestive system to heal and symptoms to improve.
  • Helps Prevent Dehydration: By controlling diarrhoea, it helps reduce fluid loss and lowers the risk of dehydration, supporting a quicker return to normal daily activities.

Directions for Use

  • Take Deemet F Suspension with food to avoid stomach upset or as advised by a doctor.
  • Follow your doctor's instructions on the dosage and timing of this medication to ensure safety.
  • Swallow the medicine as a whole with a glass of water.
  • Do not crush, break, or chew it.

How Deemet F Suspension Works

Deemet F Suspension works through the combined actions of its two active ingredients to treat bacterial and parasitic infections of the digestive tract. Metronidazole targets anaerobic bacteria and certain protozoan parasites. Inside these microorganisms, it is converted into active compounds that form harmful free radicals, which damage their DNA and lead to the death of the microorganisms, helping clear the infection.   Furazolidone works mainly in the intestines by interfering with essential enzyme systems that bacteria and certain parasites need to survive. It also inhibits monoamine oxidase (MAO), which is why certain antidepressants and foods high in tyramine should be avoided during treatment. Together, these two ingredients provide broad coverage against susceptible bacteria and parasites that cause intestinal infections.
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Alcohol

Unsafe

Drinking alcohol while taking this Deemet F Suspension may lead to an unpleasant reaction with symptoms like stomach pain, vomiting, nausea, flushing, headache or redness of the face.

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Pregnancy

Unsafe

Deemet F Suspension should not be taken if you are pregnant or planning to have a baby. If you become pregnant while taking Deemet F Suspension, stop taking the medication, and contact your doctor immediately. Metronidazole should not be given in the first trimester of the pregnancy as it may cause harm to the fetus.

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Breast Feeding

Caution

Take Deemet F Suspension only when prescribed, Deemet F Suspension contains ‘metronidazole’ which is known to pass on in a limited quantity via breast milk to the child. Consult your doctor for further advice.

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Driving

Caution

Do not drive while using Deemet F Suspension as Deemet F Suspension may cause blurred vision or dizziness that may affect the ability to drive or using machines.

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Liver

Caution

Deemet F Suspension to be taken with caution, especially if you have a history of liver diseases/conditions. The dose may have to be adjusted by your doctor.

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Kidney

Caution

Deemet F Suspension to be taken with caution, especially if you have a history of kidney diseases/conditions. The dose may have to be adjusted by your doctor.

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Children

Caution

Deemet F Suspension can be given to the children for typhoid fever, diarrhea, a stomach infection, amoebiasis, abdominal infection, diarrhea and intestinal infection only when prescribed by a child specialist.

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Heart

Caution

Deemet F Suspension should be taken with caution in patients with heart disease. Please consult your physician.

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Geriatrics

Caution

Deemet F Suspension can be given in elderly patients with extreme caution, due to the cause of adverse effects.

What if I have taken an overdose of Deemet F Suspension

If you accidentally take more than your prescribed dose, seek immediate medical attention or contact a local poison control centre. Symptoms of an overdose may include severe vomiting, loss of balance, or numbness.

Diet & Lifestyle Advise

  • Stay hydrated: Drink plenty of fluids like clean water, oral rehydration solutions (ORS), clear broths, or coconut water to replace lost minerals and prevent dehydration.
  • Eat a bland diet: Stick to easy-to-digest foods such as bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast until your stomach settles.
  • Avoid trigger foods: Stay away from dairy products, highly spicy foods, greasy items, caffeine, and artificial sweeteners, as these can irritate your gut and worsen diarrhoea.
  • Avoid certain aged and fermented foods: Foods such as aged cheeses, cured meats, fermented soy products, and red wine may increase your blood pressure while taking this medicine.
  • Practice strict hygiene: Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before preparing or eating food to prevent spreading the infection to others.
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How Soon It Starts Working

The time required for Deemet F Suspension to start to work: Deemet F Suspension starts to show its action within 1 to 2 hour of administration. The time for which the effects of Deemet F Suspension last: The duration of action for Deemet F Suspension is clinically unknown.

What if you forget to take Deemet F Suspension

If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. However, if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose, skip the missed one and continue with your regular schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one.

Storage

• Store Deemet F Suspension at room temperature, ideally between 15°C and 30°C (59°F to 86°F).

Drug Warnings

  • Avoid Alcohol: Do not consume alcohol or use products containing alcohol (such as some mouthwashes or cough syrups) while taking Deemet F Suspension and until your doctor advises it is safe to do so, as it may cause severe, unpleasant reactions.
  • Check the liquid suspension: If you are using the liquid form, always check that the liquid is uniform after shaking and does not contain any unusual clumps or discolouration before taking it.
  • Complete the full course: Never stop taking this medicine early even if your diarrhoea stops; completing the full course ensures all the bacteria and parasites are completely eradicated.
  • Watch out for dizziness: This medicine may make you feel dizzy or lightheaded. Avoid driving, operating machinery, or performing tasks that require mental alertness until you know how this medicine affects you.
  • Monitor for nerve symptoms: Stop taking the medicine and consult your doctor immediately if you experience persistent numbness, tingling, or weakness in your limbs.

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Inform your doctor if you are taking any of the following medicines, as they may interact.

  • Blood thinners (like warfarin): Deemet F Suspension can increase the effect of blood thinners, which raises your risk of bleeding.
  • Seizure medications (like phenytoin or phenobarbital): These can speed up how your body processes this medicine, making it less effective, or Deemet F Suspension may increase seizure medication levels in your blood.
  • Lithium: This combination can raise lithium levels in your body, increasing the risk of lithium toxicity.
  • Monoamine Oxidase (MAO)-Interacting Medicines: Avoid taking this medicine with other MAO inhibitors or medicines that increase serotonin levels, such as certain antidepressants, unless advised by your doctor. Combining these medicines may increase the risk of serious side effects, including dangerously high blood pressure or serotonin syndrome.

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  • Alcohol: Mixing this medicine with alcohol causes a severe reaction featuring flushing, pounding headaches, vomiting, and a rapid heart rate.
  • Foods high in tyramine: Eating aged cheese, cured meats, or yeast extracts while taking this medicine may cause a sudden, dangerous rise in blood pressure.

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Therapeutic Class

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FAQs

Deemet F Suspension is used to treat bacterial infections, dysentery and diarrhoea.
Deemet F Suspension contains furazolidone and metronidazole. Flurazolidone works by interfering with protein synthesis, a mechanism which is important for the survival of bacteria. Metronidazole kills parasites and anaerobic bacteria that are responsible for causing infections. It works by damaging their DNA. Collectively, they help in treating the disease effectively.
Yes, Deemet F Suspension is known to cause dry mouth. If you feel excessively thirsty, do frequent mouth rinses and increase fluid intake.
Yes, Deemet F Suspension may lead to a temporary metallic taste. This metallic taste can be reduced by chewing mints, sugar-free gum and brushing teeth after the food.
No, do not stop taking Deemet F Suspension and complete the full course of treatment even if you feel well. Your symptoms may recur before the infection is completely treated.
Yes, Deemet F Suspension may cause nausea and vomiting in some patients. You are recommended to take Deemet F Suspension with meals to avoid this. If you still vomit or feel nauseous, please consult your doctor.
No, you are recommended not to take Deemet F Suspension with other antibiotics. Deemet F Suspension is an antibiotic medicine that is used to treat parasitic and amoebic infections. When taken along with other antibiotics, Deemet F Suspension may lose its efficiency, or it might result in unwanted side effects.
Drinking alcohol while taking Deemet F Suspension may lead to an unpleasant reaction with symptoms like stomach pain, vomiting, nausea, flushing, and headache. So, it is important to avoid alcohol consumption during the treatment with Deemet F Suspension.
Store Deemet F Suspension in a cool and dry place away from sunlight. Keep it out of the reach of children. Regularly check the expiration date. When you need to dispose of the medicine, place it in a plastic bag and throw it away in the household trash. Remember, never flush the medicine down the toilet or sink.
The common side effects of Deemet F Suspension which may occur in some individuals are nausea, dryness in the mouth, headache, metallic taste, and dark yellow to brown discoloration of urine. Most of these side effects do not require medical attention and gradually resolve over time. However, if these side effects persist or worsen, please consult your doctor.
No. Avoid drinking alcohol or using products that contain alcohol while taking Deemet F Suspension and until your doctor tells you it is safe to do so. Combining alcohol with this medicine may cause unpleasant reactions such as nausea, vomiting, flushing, headache, and a rapid heartbeat. If you are unsure whether a product contains alcohol, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
It is common for your urine to turn dark yellow, brown, or rust-colored while taking this medicine. This is a harmless side effect of the way your body processes the active ingredients and will go away once you finish the treatment. Talk to your doctor if you experience pain while urinating or if the dark colour persists after stopping the medicine.
No, you must finish the entire course of Deemet F Suspension prescribed by your doctor, even if your symptoms improve and you feel completely better. Stopping the medicine too early can allow the remaining bacteria or parasites to multiply, causing your infection to return. Talk to your doctor if you feel unable to finish your prescription.
This medicine is generally not recommended during pregnancy, especially during the first trimester, unless your doctor decides the benefits clearly outweigh the potential risks. If you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding, talk to your doctor to discuss safer alternatives.
If you vomit within 30 minutes of taking your dose, you may need to take another dose, but you should always consult your healthcare provider first. If vomiting is a persistent problem, talk to your doctor or pharmacist for advice on how to manage it.
No, Deemet F Suspension is only effective against infections caused by specific bacteria and parasites. It does not work against viral infections like the common cold, flu, or viral stomach bugs. Using anti-infective medications when they are not needed can make future bacterial infections harder to treat. Talk to your doctor to get an accurate diagnosis.
Yes, experiencing a temporary metallic or bitter taste in your mouth is a well-known, mild side effect of this medicine. It is completely harmless and will go away shortly after you complete your treatment course. You can manage this by rinsing your mouth or sucking on sugar-free hard candy. Talk to your doctor if this side effect becomes intolerable.
You should avoid foods that are very high in tyramine, such as aged cheeses, smoked or cured meats, soy sauce, and red wine, as they can interact with this medicine and raise your blood pressure. Additionally, stay away from greasy, spicy, and dairy-rich foods, which can worsen diarrhoea and irritate your gut. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist for a complete list of dietary recommendations.
Yes, children can take Deemet F Suspension only if it has been prescribed by a doctor. The dose is based on the child's age, weight, and the type of infection being treated. Do not give this medicine to a child without medical advice, and always follow your doctor's instructions carefully.

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