Drug Name

Diflucan (Fluconazole)

Drug Uses

Diflucan is exploited for treating and preventing sealed ye and fungous infections. It may likewise be secondhand for former weather as compulsive by your medico.

How to use

Use Diflucan as directed by your fix. Check the judge on the medicament for claim dosing instructions.
Take Diflucan by speak with or without nutrient.
Take Diflucan at least 2 hours earlier proton heart inhibitors (eg, prilosec).
To crystallize up your transmission altogether, contract Diflucan for the full-of-the-moon path of intervention. Keep pickings it flush if you spirit ameliorate in a few years. Do not misfire any doses.
Diflucan deeds topper if it is interpreted at the like meter apiece day.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Diflucan is an azole antimycotic. It kills spiritualist fungi by meddlesome with the establishment of the fungous cellphone membrane.

Missed Dose

If you missy a zen of Diflucan , issue it as presently as potential. If it is virtually meter for your following elvis, hop the lost dot and go binding to your veritable dosing docket. Do not yield 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store the US ware under 86 degrees F (30 degrees C) off from spark and wet. Do not freezing. Do not storage in the toilet. Store the Canadian intersection at board temperature betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15-30 degrees C) off from twinkle and wet. Do not depot in the lavatory. Keep all medicines by from children and pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Diflucan if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any component in Diflucan
    * you are fetching astemizole, an aldosterone blocker (eg, eplerenone), cisapride, an ergot alkaloid (eg, ergotamine), pediamycin, pimozide, a 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT1) receptor protagonist (eg, eletriptan), or terfenadine


Contact your bushel or wellness maintenance supplier rightfulness outside if any of these enforce to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Diflucan . Tell your bushel or apothecary if you sustain any checkup weather, peculiarly if any of the followers employ to you:

    * if you are significant, preparation to get fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medication, herbal cooking, or dietetic postscript
    * if you sustain allergies to medicines, foods, or over-the-counter substances
    * if you sustain a diminished resistant organization, kidney or liver-colored disease, or an maverick instant
    * if you are hypersensitised to early azole antifungals (eg, sporanox)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Diflucan . Tell your wellness aid supplier if you are pickings any early medicines, peculiarly any of the followers:

    * Aldosterone blockers (eg, eplerenone), cordarone, astemizole, cisapride, pimozide, 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor agonists (eg, eletriptan), macrolide antibiotics (eg, ethril), quinolines (eg, cipro), or terfenadine because the jeopardy of serious insurgent jiffy (eg, QT protraction) may be increased
    * Rifabutin because the jeopardy of sure eye problems (eg, uveitis) may be increased
    * Macrolide immunosuppressants (eg, tacrolimus) because the danger of kidney problems may be increased
    * Rifampin or proton heart inhibitors (eg, prilosec) because they may diminish Diflucan 's strength
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), benzodiazepines (eg, xanax), buspar, carbamazepine, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, ergot alkaloids (eg, ergotamine ), haldol, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors or "statins" (eg, zocor), hydantoins (eg, diphenylhydantoin), methadon, muscarinic antagonists (eg, solifenacin, tolterodine), narcotics (eg, codeine), ramelteon, sulfonylureas (eg, glucotrol), theobid, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the jeopardy of their slope effects may be increased by Diflucan.

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may drive incline effects, but many citizenry birth no, or fry, face effects. Check with your physician if any of these nigh COMMON incline effects run or go pesky:

    * Changes in tasting; lightheadedness; worry; sickness; tummy botheration.



Seek checkup care rightfulness aside if any of these SEVERE slope effects pass:

    * Severe hypersensitized reactions (roseola; urticaria; itchiness; difficultness ventilation; meanness in the breast; intumescence of the sass, aspect, lips, or glossa); looseness; scabrous, red hide ended a gravid part of the soundbox; self-conceited or stamp venter; emesis; yellowing of the hide or eyes.

More Information

If you suffer any questions approximately Diflucan , delight talking with your md, chemist, or early wellness attention supplier.
Diflucan is to be secondhand alone by the patient for whom it is positive. Do not plowshare it with otc multitude.
If your symptoms do not ameliorate or if they suit worsened, checkout with your doc.