Drug Status in USA : Approved Drug Status in Canada : Approved
Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?
Vulvovaginal candidiasis.
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. Lactation. First trimester of pregnancy.
Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication
May damage latex or rubber contraceptives. Pregnancy and children below the age of eighteen years.
What are possible side effects of this medication ?
Headache, dysmenorrhoea, burning and itching locally, abdominal pain, fever. Vulvovaginal burning, dysmenorrhoea, genital, body and abdominal pain.
Drug Category/Class
Triazole Derivatives
Antifungal Agents
Gynecological Antiinfectives and Antiseptics
Genito Urinary System and Sex Hormones
Triazole derivatives
Prescribed
For the treatment of candidiasis (a yeast-like fungal infection) of the vulva and vagina.