Drug Name

Diflucan (Fluconazole)

Drug Uses

Diflucan is victimized for treating and preventing sealed yeastward and fungous infections. It may too be victimized for former weather as driven by your fix.

How to use

Use Diflucan as directed by your fix. Check the judge on the medicate for accurate dosing instructions.
Take Diflucan by sass with or without nutrient.
Take Diflucan at least 2 hours ahead proton ticker inhibitors (eg, prilosec).
To open up your transmission wholly, issue Diflucan for the wide grade of discussion. Keep fetching it eve if you spirit bettor in a few years. Do not neglect any doses.
Diflucan plant outflank if it is interpreted at the like metre apiece day.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Diflucan is an azole antimycotic. It kills medium fungi by busybodied with the shaping of the fungous cubicle membrane.

Missed Dose

If you neglect a superman of Diflucan , payoff it as presently as potential. If it is nearly clip for your succeeding pane, skim the lost pane and go binding to your habitue dosing docket. Do not proceeds 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store the US ware downstairs 86 degrees F (30 degrees C) off from twinkle and wet. Do not freezing. Do not depot in the privy. Store the Canadian ware at way temperature betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15-30 degrees C) forth from sparkle and wet. Do not storehouse in the toilet. Keep all medicines by from children and pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Diflucan if:

    * you are supersensitised to any fixings in Diflucan
    * you are pickings astemizole, an aldosterone blocker (eg, eplerenone), cisapride, an ergot alkaloid (eg, ergotamine), ilosone, pimozide, a 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT1) receptor protagonist (eg, eletriptan), or terfenadine


Contact your physician or wellness upkeep supplier rightfield out if any of these implement to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Diflucan . Tell your physician or chemist if you sustain any checkup weather, specially if any of the pursual enforce to you:

    * if you are meaning, preparation to go meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter medicament, herbal cookery, or dietetic add-on
    * if you birth allergies to medicines, foods, or otc substances
    * if you sustain a faded resistant organisation, kidney or liver-colored disease, or an unpredictable beat
    * if you are sensitized to early azole antifungals (eg, sporanox)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Diflucan . Tell your wellness upkeep supplier if you are pickings any over-the-counter medicines, particularly any of the pursual:

    * Aldosterone blockers (eg, eplerenone), cordarone, astemizole, cisapride, pimozide, 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor agonists (eg, eletriptan), macrolide antibiotics (eg, pediamycin), quinolines (eg, cipro), or terfenadine because the peril of serious unpredictable trice (eg, QT extension) may be increased
    * Rifabutin because the jeopardy of sure eye problems (eg, uveitis) may be increased
    * Macrolide immunosuppressants (eg, tacrolimus) because the peril of kidney problems may be increased
    * Rifampin or proton ticker inhibitors (eg, prilosec) because they may diminish Diflucan 's effectuality
    * 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, dilantin), methadon, muscarinic antagonists (eg, solifenacin, tolterodine), narcotics (eg, codeine), ramelteon, sulfonylureas (eg, glucotrol), theobid, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the peril of their english effects may be increased by Diflucan.

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may campaign english effects, but many masses bear no, or kid, position effects. Check with your fix if any of these nearly COMMON position effects remain or get pesky:

    * Changes in penchant; lightheadedness; vexation; sickness; breadbasket botheration.



Seek checkup aid redress aside if any of these SEVERE face effects come:

    * Severe hypersensitised reactions (efflorescence; urticaria; itch; difficultness respiration; closeness in the breast; bump of the talk, nerve, lips, or knife); diarrhoea; scabrous, red cutis complete a gravid serving of the trunk; egotistic or cutter belly; puking; yellowing of the pelt or eyes.

More Information

If you suffer any questions around Diflucan , delight talking with your dr., chemist, or former wellness guardianship supplier.
Diflucan is to be secondhand lonesome by the patient for whom it is positive. Do not ploughshare it with otc citizenry.
If your symptoms do not ameliorate or if they get worsened, baulk with your bushel.