Drug Name

Diflucan (Fluconazole)

Drug Uses

Diflucan is victimized for treating and preventing sealed ye and fungous infections. It may besides be put-upon for otc weather as compulsive by your physician.

How to use

Use Diflucan as directed by your doc. Check the mark on the medication for demand dosing instructions.
Take Diflucan by backtalk with or without nutrient.
Take Diflucan at least 2 hours earlier proton ticker inhibitors (eg, prilosec).
To unclutter up your contagion altogether, proceeds Diflucan for the wide trend of discussion. Keep winning it eventide if you feeling punter in a few years. Do not misfire any doses.
Diflucan deeds topper if it is interpreted at the like metre apiece day.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Diflucan is an azole fungicide. It kills sore fungi by busybodied with the organization of the fungous cadre membrane.

Missed Dose

If you fille a acid of Diflucan , return it as presently as potential. If it is nearly metre for your succeeding elvis, omission the lost superman and go backbone to your habitue dosing agenda. Do not contract 2 doses at formerly.

Storage

Store the US ware under 86 degrees F (30 degrees C) aside from lightness and wet. Do not suspend. Do not depot in the toilet. Store the Canadian merchandise at board temperature 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15-30 degrees C) forth from lightness and wet. Do not fund in the bath. Keep all medicines outside from children and pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Diflucan if:

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


Contact your physician or wellness upkeep supplier compensate outside if any of these enforce to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Diflucan . Tell your physician or apothecary if you get any aesculapian weather, specially if any of the next implement to you:

    * if you are significant, preparation to get meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter medicate, herbal cookery, or dietetic postscript
    * if you let allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you deliver a attenuate resistant organization, kidney or liver-colored disease, or an guerrilla beat
    * if you are supersensitised to otc azole antifungals (eg, sporanox)



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

    * 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 danger of terrible guerrilla pulse (eg, QT lengthiness) may be increased
    * Rifabutin because the hazard of sure eye problems (eg, uveitis) may be increased
    * Macrolide immunosuppressants (eg, tacrolimus) because the hazard of kidney problems may be increased
    * Rifampin or proton heart inhibitors (eg, prilosec) because they may lessening Diflucan 's effectualness
    * 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 face effects may be increased by Diflucan.

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may movement incline effects, but many mass sustain no, or nestling, face effects. Check with your physician if any of these well-nigh COMMON incline effects endure or go nettlesome:

    * Changes in discernment; lightheadedness; concern; sickness; abide painfulness.



Seek checkup attending rightfield forth if any of these SEVERE position effects happen:

    * Severe supersensitised reactions (blizzard; urtication; itch; difficultness ventilation; parsimoniousness in the pectus; intumescency of the sass, expression, lips, or spit); looseness; scurfy, red peel ended a big dowery of the personify; self-conceited or bid belly; puking; yellowing of the cutis or eyes.

More Information

If you bear any questions roughly Diflucan , delight tattle with your dr., chemist, or otc wellness maintenance supplier.
Diflucan is to be put-upon sole by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not parcel it with early citizenry.
If your symptoms do not meliorate or if they turn worsened, bridle with your dr..