Desferrioxamine

Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?

Acute iron intoxication and chronic iron overload due to transfusion-dependent anaemia.

Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?

Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient
Hypersensitivity. Severe renal disease. Anuria except those on dialysis.

Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication

When administered over prolonged periods, visual acuity tests, slit lamp examination, funduscopy and audiometry are recommended periodically. Impaired susceptibility to infection, particularly for yersinia species. Concomitant use of ascorbic acid. Severe fungal infections have been reported.

What are possible side effects of this medication ?

On IV injection: flushing, urticaria, hypotension, shock, tachypnoea, hypoxaemia, tachycardia, cardiac arrhytghmias, convulsions. On SC or IM: Local pain, pruritus, erythemia, swelling, GIT disturbances, dysuria, fever, allergic skin rashes. Leg cramps on long term therapy. Reversible ocular and auditory disturbances. Reduction of growth in very young children, thrombocytopenia.

Drug Category/Class

Desferrioxamine has 1 Brands listed


Desferal (500 mg)

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