Diethylcarbamazine is a medication used to treat parasitic infections. Learn about its uses, side effects, precautions, dosage, and interactions on Lybrate. Diethylcarbamazine is used to treat certain parasitic diseases caused by infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type, including lymphatic filariasis caused by infection with Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, or Brugia timori; tropical pulmonary eosinophilia; and loiasis. Diethylcarbamazine is an antihelmintic drug that treats worm infections such as filariasis, loiasis and eosinophilic lung. Learn about its indications, contraindications, side effects, precautions and drug interactions. Diethylcarbamazine is used in the treatment of worm infections, schistosoma infections, diarrhea, periodontitis, liver abscesses, intestinal amoebiasis, hepatic amoebiasis and filariasis. Diethylcarbamazine belongs to a class of medications called anthelmintics.
