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Loxagyl contains a medicine called metronidazole. This belongs to a group of medicines called antibiotics. It works by killing bacteria and parasites that cause infections in your body.
It can be used to:

• Treat infections of the blood, brain, lung, bones, genital tract, pelvic area, stomach and intestines
•  Treat gum ulcers and other dental infections
• Treat infected leg ulcers and pressure sores
• Prevent infections after surgery
• If you need any further information on your illness, speak to your doctor.

It is the drug of choice for first episodes of mild-to-moderate

• Clostridium difficile infection.
• Bacterial vaginosis, commonly associated with overgrowth of Gardnerella species and coinfective anaerobes (Mobiluncus, Bacteroides), in symptomatic patients.
• Pelvic inflammatory disease in addition to other quinolones.
• Anaerobic bacterial infections or any other anaerobes in intra-abdominal abscess, peritonitis, empyema, pneumonia, aspiration pneumonia, lung abscess, diabetic foot ulcer, meningitis and brain abscess, bone and joint infections, septicemia, endometritis, tubo-ovarian abscess, or endocarditis
• Pseudomembranous colitis due to Clostridium difficile
•  Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy, as part of a multi-drug regimen in peptic ulcer disease
• Amoebiasis: Infections caused by Entamoeba Histolytica.
• Giardiasis: infection.