Dapsone can cause nausea, dizziness, palpitations, jaundice and rash.
Rifampin increases the metabolizing of dapsone in the body, requiring an adjustment of the dapsone dosage.
what are the side effects of taking this drug
Mentat is an ayurvedic drug and has no side effects.
As with other drugs, there are side effects of taking the hypertension drug, bezide. Some of the side effects include gout, impotence and rash.
You really need to ask your doctor this because there's no sure yes or no. This is what they say on Drugs.com (a very good site): If you become pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using Dapsone while you are pregnant. Dapsone is found in breast milk. Do not breast-feed while taking Dapsone. Dapsone has been assigned to pregnancy category C. There are no animal data or controlled data in human pregnancies. Experience with dapsone during all trimesters of human pregnancy has not indicated an increased risk of fetal abnormalities. Dapsone should only be given during pregnancy when benefit outweighs risk. Dapsone is excreted into human milk. Hemolytic reactions have been reported in neonates. Due to the potential for serious adverse effects in a nursing infant, a decision should be made to discontinue nursing or discontinue the drug, taking into consideration the importance of the drug to the mother.
No, must gradually decrease the dosage. Usually the action of the drug is more important than the side effects. Unless there are ongoing difficult side effects, the drug need not be discontinued ifs it is beneficial. Usually when there are side effects when starting the drug, they may be transient and will stop after taking the drug for awhile.
Death.
Why drugs are still used if they have side effects? -I feel that doctors prescribe meds with risks of some side effects because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of the side effects. That is why your docter monitors you while on the med to make sure you are not effected greatly by the side effects. Where there is a positive there is a negitive. -Side effects are unintentional effects apart from the intended effect of the drug. Drug side effects usually vary per person, and a lot of the time are just possibilities, not certainties. That is why, as the previous answer states, you are monitored by a doctor while using a drug with potentially dangerous or lethal side effects. Yes, side effects can include death. (:0) For example, side effects of a pill could include rectal bleeding. This is not the desired effect of the drug, just a possible, and most of the time unwanted, effect of using a sexual impotency drug.
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The possible side effects of deworming will depend on the drug used. With the commonly used dewormers, side effects are rare.
Adverse Effects
The term for the body's reaction to a drug is "drug response" or "drug reaction". This can include a variety of effects, such as therapeutic benefits or side effects.