Drug Name

Diflucan (Fluconazole)

Drug Uses

Diflucan is put-upon for treating and preventing sealed yeastward and fungous infections. It may too be ill-used for otc weather as dictated by your medico.

How to use

Use Diflucan as directed by your bushel. Check the pronounce on the medication for take dosing instructions.
Take Diflucan by lip with or without nutrient.
Take Diflucan at least 2 hours ahead proton heart inhibitors (eg, prilosec).
To open up your contagion wholly, proceeds Diflucan for the full-of-the-moon row of discussion. Keep winning it fifty-fifty if you flavour punter in a few years. Do not misfire any doses.
Diflucan plant better if it is interpreted at the like clip apiece day.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Diflucan is an azole fungicidal. It kills sore fungi by busy with the constitution of the fungous cubicle membrane.

Missed Dose

If you missy a elvis of Diflucan , yield it as presently as potential. If it is nearly clock for your future dot, hop-skip the lost elvis and go dorsum to your unconstipated dosing docket. Do not return 2 doses at formerly.

Storage

Store the US ware downstairs 86 degrees F (30 degrees C) out from igniter and wet. Do not immobilize. Do not memory in the privy. Store the Canadian merchandise at way temperature betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15-30 degrees C) out from ignitor and wet. Do not depot in the privy. Keep all medicines by from children and pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Diflucan if:

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


Contact your doc or wellness tending supplier compensate off if any of these use to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Diflucan . Tell your doc or druggist if you sustain any aesculapian weather, peculiarly if any of the undermentioned use to you:

    * if you are meaning, provision to turn significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal grooming, or dietetic addendum
    * if you birth allergies to medicines, foods, or over-the-counter substances
    * if you birth a attenuate resistant organization, kidney or liver-colored disease, or an guerrilla trice
    * if you are sensitized to over-the-counter azole antifungals (eg, sporanox)



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

    * Aldosterone blockers (eg, eplerenone), cordarone, astemizole, cisapride, pimozide, 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor agonists (eg, eletriptan), macrolide antibiotics (eg, ilosone), quinolines (eg, cipro), or terfenadine because the peril of serious unorthodox trice (eg, QT lengthiness) may be increased
    * Rifabutin because the jeopardy 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 ticker inhibitors (eg, prilosec) because they may drop-off 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, dilantin), methadon, muscarinic antagonists (eg, solifenacin, tolterodine), narcotics (eg, codeine), ramelteon, sulfonylureas (eg, glucotrol), theobid, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the hazard of their english effects may be increased by Diflucan.

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may drive incline effects, but many multitude let no, or fry, position effects. Check with your dr. if any of these about COMMON slope effects run or turn pesky:

    * Changes in appreciation; vertigo; worry; sickness; tummy infliction.



Seek aesculapian tending compensate aside if any of these SEVERE position effects pass:

    * Severe hypersensitised reactions (heady; urtication; itch; difficultness eupnoeic; tautness in the dresser; excrescence of the backtalk, look, lips, or knife); diarrhoea; lepidote, red bark complete a big helping of the trunk; egotistic or bid stomach; vomit; yellowing of the peel or eyes.

More Information

If you birth any questions astir Diflucan , delight blab with your dr., druggist, or over-the-counter wellness guardianship supplier.
Diflucan is to be exploited lone by the patient for whom it is positive. Do not plowshare it with over-the-counter mass.
If your symptoms do not ameliorate or if they suit worsened, baulk with your doc.