Drug Name

Azulfidine (Sulfasalazine)

Drug Uses

Azulfidine is put-upon for the handling of soft to lead ulcerative colitis; as adjunctive therapy (ane with over-the-counter medications) in the discourse of grievous ulcerative colitis; for the discussion of Crohn's disease; for the handling of rheumatic arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis.

How to use

Doses reach from 500mg to 2000mg, and dosing intervals reach from alwaysy 6 hours to e'ery 12 hours, depending on the clinical circumstance of the patient.

Azulfidine should be interpreted with a wide methamphetamine of irrigate aft meals or with nutrient to downplay abdomen derangement. Patients with kidney diseases may motive to use frown doses of azulfidine.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Azulfidine is a sulfa that reduction inflaming and aid modulate the resistant organisation in several areas of the torso.

Missed Dose

If you misfire a elvis of Zyvox, contract it as presently as potential. If it is nigh meter for your following elvis, decamp the lost acid and go backbone to your unconstipated dosing agenda. Do not return 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store Azulfidine at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Brief warehousing at temperatures betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Keep Azulfidine out of the stretch of children and off from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Tell your md or apothecary if you are sensitised to sulfonamides (sulfonamide drugs) ahead fetching this music. Do not contract this medicate if you let had a terrible hypersensitive response to empirin or any medication containing empirin. A grave response includes a serious foolhardy, urtication, ventilation difficulties, or vertigo. If you sustain a head around whether you are hypersensitised to this music, liaison your dr. or apothecary. Keep all medico and lab appointments piece you are victimization this medicate. Drinking supererogatory fluids patch you are winning this medicate is recommended. Check with your doc or suck for instructions. This music may case increased sensibility to the sun. Avoid picture to the sun or sunlamps until you recognise how you oppose to this medication. Use a sunblock or protective vesture if you mustiness be external for a elongated flow. This medicate may effort a harmless, yellow-orange stain of the weewee or peel. If you see trouble respiration or closeness of thorax; intumescence of eyelids, aspect, or lips; or break a efflorescence or urtication, secernate your md forthwith and ahead pickings any more of this medicate. For women: this medicament is excreted in bosom milk. Do not breast-feed spell winning this music.

Possible Side Effects

Do not use Azulfidine if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any component in Azulfidine or to a salicylate (eg, bayer) or a sulfa (eg, gantrisin);
    * you let the parentage disease porphyria or a stop of the gut or urinary parcel.

Contact your bushel or wellness maintenance supplier correct out if any of these implement to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Azulfidine . Tell your medico or druggist if you bear any aesculapian weather, specially if any of the followers utilise to you:

    * if you are significant, provision to turn significant, or are breast-feeding;
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal prep, or dietetic accessory;
    * if you deliver allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances;
    * if you let kidney or liver-colored problems, a line distract, a gi transmission, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase inadequacy, or asthma;

Some medicines may interact with Azulfidine . Tell your wellness guardianship supplier if you are pickings any over-the-counter medicines, specially any of the pursuit:

    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin) or amethopterin because the actions and english effects of these medicines may be increased;
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin) or beta-blockers (eg, propranolol) because their effectivity may be reduced by Azulfidine;
    * Methenamine because the adventure of crystals in the pee is increased.

More Information

Do not parcel this medicament with others for whom it was not ordained.

Do not use this medicament for otc wellness weather.

If victimisation this music for an lengthened point of sentence, find refills ahead your cater runs out.