Dosage
- Hospitalized patients: starting with 3 times 25 mg, increasing to 125 mg. Up to 300 mg may be given in resistant cases. After remission dose is often reduced to 50 to 100 mg daily.
- Ambulatory patients: starting with 25 to 75 mg daily, increasing up to a maximum of 200 mg daily, after remission dose is often reduced to 50–100 mg daily.
- Pediatric patients: starting with 10 mg daily the dose is adjusted according to the severity of the symptoms to be treated, the side-effects encountered and the weight of the patient.
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