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22

EPIVIR

Filed Under Anti-Viral 

 

Drug Uses
Epivir is employed for the treatment of the infection by the HIV in combination with other medicines. It can also be employed for other conditions as determined by your doctor.

How Taken
Employ Epivir as directed by your doctor. Take Epivir with or without a meal. Continue to take Epivir even if you feel well. Epivir catch

Warnings/Precautions
Before taking Epivir, known as your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, particularly if you have allergies to medicines, foods, or other substances, if you are allergic to any ingredient in Epivir, if you have a history of the problems of muscle or pancreas, abnormal accounts of blood globule, hepatic affection (for example, hepatitis) or other problems of liver (for example, abnormal hepatic functional examinations), problems of kidney, diabetes, lactic acidosis, a disorder or you of nerve are very of weight excessive, if you are pregnant, far-sighted to become pregnant or nurse with the centre. If you become pregnant, discuss with your doctor the advantages and the risks to employ Epivir during the pregnancy. Epivir is excreted out of mother’s milk. Do not nurse with the centre while taking Epivir. the HIV-infected mothers should not nurse with the centre their infants because is likely it to transmit the infection by the HIV or Epivir. Some medicines can act one on the other with Epivir. Said consequently your doctor of all the medicine of regulation or nonprescription, of preparation of sweet herbs, or dietetic supplement which you take. Do not take Epivir if you take the zalcitabine or other medicines containing the lamivudine. When your provisioning of medicine starts to run bottom, obtain more your doctor or pharmacist as soon as possible. It can develop resistance to Epivir and become more difficult to treat the virus if you cease taking it, even for a short period. Epivir does not treat the infection by the HIV and the patients can continue to acquire diseases and infections related to HIV. Remain under the care of your doctor. Epivir is not protected from the transmission from HIV to others by the contact or the contamination sexual from blood. Employ the shapes of barrier of contraception (for example, condoms) if you are reached HIV. Do not divide the needles, any other equipment of injection, or the articles personal such as toothbrushes or razor blades. Cases to worsen the hepatic affection were reported when Epivir is stopped in the patients presenting HIV and the infection of virus of hepatitis B. Discuss all the changes of medicine with your doctor. If you have the infection of virus of hepatitis B, your doctor will carry out tests laboratory during several months after you cease taking Epivir. Some patients had to worsen the virus of hepatitis B after stop of the use of Epivir. Said your doctor about all new or not very common symptoms which you note after stop of the treatment. Epivir can affect your sugar of blood. If you are a diabetic, narrowly check the rates of sugar in blood and ask your doctor before adjusting the amount of your medicine of diabetes. Employ Epivir with prudence in young people than 3 months of children of age, children who took other medicines of HIV, or those which have a history of the problems of pancreas because they can be more sensitive for his purposes.

Missed Dose
If you miss an amount take it as soon as you remember. However if it is almost time for the next amount, jump the missed amount and continue your program of regular proportioning. Do not take a double dose to compensate missed.

Possible Side Effects
Some of the possible side effects are changes of grease of the body, the cold, cough, of diarrhoea, giddiness, faintness lieutenant-general, headache, of indigestion, loss of appetite, muscle or common pain, liquid nose/choking nausea, insomnia, stomach cramps. Contact your so unspecified doctor among these or other side effects occur. If you test one of serious side effects afterwards, should seek to you immediately allergic reactions of medical attention (eruption, hives, difficulty breathing, sealing in the trunk, swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or language), sunk urine, depression (mental or of the changes of mood), increased the stomach, increased heart rate, numbness, tinkling, or weakening arms or the legs, gorges endolorie persistent, cold, or fever, serious muscle or common pain, serious or persistent nausea, tenderness or pain of stomach, bleeding or not very common bruise, weakness or not very common exhaustion, vomiting, yellowing of the skin or eyes.

Storage
Store Epivir with the F 77 (C) 25. Short storage with 59 with the F 86 (15 with the C) 30 is authorized. Store starting from heat, of moisture, and the light. Not stored in the bathroom. Keep Epivir out of the range of the children.

Overdose
If the overdose is suspecte medical attention of research immediately.

More Information
Epivir can cause somnolence or the giddiness. These effects can worsen if Epivir is taken with alcohol or some other drugs. Employ Epivir with prudence. Do not lead or do not carry out other tasks probably not very sure until you know react yourselves to this drug. If your symptoms do not improve or if they worsen, contact your doctor. Epivir should be only employed by the patient for whom one prescribed it. Do not take less or more or do not take them more often than not prescribed by your doctor.

Disclaimer
They is only general information, it does not cover all the directions, integrations of drug or precautions. You should count on top for no goal, it does not contain any specific instruction for a particular patient. We contradict all the responsibility for the exactitude and the reliability of this information. Us `about nonperson in charge of all damage.

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