How long does doxycycline stay in your body after you finish your prescribed amount?
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- 22 Aug 2009 by webagirls
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- doxycycline
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Marvell23 Aug 2009
The eilimination half life of doxycycline is between 16 to 22 hours (for healthy adults).
It takes 5.5 x elimination half life (hours) before a drug is completely cleared from your system.
So if we take the maximum elimination half life of 22 hours, it would take 121 hours i.e. approximately 5 days (5.5 x 22 hours) before the medicine is eliminated from your system.
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