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        "Severe hepatic impairment (for example cirrhosis with or without ascites): maximum 400 mg/day.",
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        "The formulary's own Indications line for the tablets is narrower than its dosing table - it lists urinary tract infection, complicated or not, from susceptible gram-negative and gram-positive organisms. Prostatitis is named in the Dosage Regimen, not in that list, and the disease article is what recommends an oral fluoroquinolone for this condition.",
        "The formulary's course is 4 to 6 weeks and the article's is 2 to 4 weeks for oral fluoroquinolones generally; the row prints the formulary's, because that is the figure attached to prostatitis by name.",
        "Take with water on an empty stomach - 1 hour or more before food, or 2 hours after it; the same spacing applies to milk and other dairy. The instruction is the formulary's.",
        "Antacids, sucralfate and any multivitamin or supplement carrying iron, zinc, magnesium or aluminium must never be given at the same time as norfloxacin - separate them by 2 hours at least, either side of the dose.",
        "Renal impairment: at a CrCl of 30 mL/minute/1.73 m2 or below, the formulary gives 400 mg once daily.",
        "It is not to be used where there is a known aortic aneurysm, nor where the risk of one is raised - peripheral atherosclerotic vascular disease, hypertension, or an inherited disorder that alters the blood vessels. The warning is the formulary's.",
        "Fluoroquinolone class risks apply: tendinitis and tendon rupture, peripheral neuropathy, CNS effects, QT prolongation and disordered glucose regulation.",
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