• Tafenoquine comes as a tablet taken by mouth with food.
• Taking tafenoquine tablets with food helps to increase the absorption of tafenoquine.
• The tablets of tafenoquine should not be broken or crushed but have to be swallowed as a whole with a sufficient quantity of water.
• Tafenoquine is taken either on the first or the second day of the appropriate antimalarial treatment such as chloroquine therapy for treating Plasmodium vivax infection.
• If vomiting occurs just within 1 hour after taking tafenoquine, take another dose immediately but do not repeat more than once as this may be harmful.
• Allergic to tafenoquine and other chemically related drugs to tafenoquine
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding
• Deficiency of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) (due to the risk of breakdown of red blood cells)
• Severe anemia
• Children below 16 years of age
• Taking tafenoquine tablets with food helps to increase the absorption of tafenoquine.
• The tablets of tafenoquine should not be broken or crushed but have to be swallowed as a whole with a sufficient quantity of water.
Dosage & When it is to be taken
• The recommended dose of tafenoquine is 300 mg which is achieved by taking two tablets of tafenoquine 150 mg.• Tafenoquine is taken either on the first or the second day of the appropriate antimalarial treatment such as chloroquine therapy for treating Plasmodium vivax infection.
• If vomiting occurs just within 1 hour after taking tafenoquine, take another dose immediately but do not repeat more than once as this may be harmful.
When it is not to be taken (Contraindications)
Tafenoquine should not be used in patients with-• Allergic to tafenoquine and other chemically related drugs to tafenoquine
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding
• Deficiency of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) (due to the risk of breakdown of red blood cells)
• Severe anemia
• Children below 16 years of age
