Dextropropoxyphene Drug: Indication, Dosage, Precaution, Side Effect , Storage, Category Type and corresponding Brands - www.genericdrugscan.com
Dextropropoxyphene
Drug Status in USA : ApprovedDrug Status in Canada : Approved
Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?
Mild to moderate pain.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 patientHypersensitivity, chronic resp diseases, porphyria, pregnancy. Patients on MAOI treatment or within 2 week of stopping treatment.
Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication
Suicidal patients, hepatic or renal diseases, lactation, elderly.What are possible side effects of this medication ?
Sedation, nausea, vomiting, dizziness.Drug Category/Class
- Analgesics, Opioid
- Narcotics
- Antitussive Agents
- Diphenylpropylamine Derivatives
- Opioids
- Analgesics
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inducers
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C8 Inhibitors
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C8 Inducers
- Nervous System
- CYP2D6 Inducers
- CYP2D6 Inducers (strong)
- CYP3A4 Inhibitors
- Diphenylpropylamine derivatives
| Prescribed | For the relief of mild to moderate pain |
| Weight : | 339.4712 |
| Structure | Dextropropoxyphene |
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| Formula | C22H29NO2 |
Dextropropoxyphene has 1 Brands listed
| Parvodex (65 mg) |
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