Drug Name

Zovirax (Acyclovir)

Drug Uses

Zovirax is ill-used for treating varicella (chickenpox) or zoster (herpes shingles) and treating or suppressing venereal herpes infections. It may besides be ill-used for early weather as set by your fix.

How to use

Use Zovirax as directed by your doc. Check the pronounce on the music for demand dosing instructions.

Take Zovirax by backtalk with or without nutrient.

Drinking additional fluids piece you are fetching Zovirax is recommended. Check with your md for instructions.

Start therapy with Zovirax at the soonest preindication or symptom of zoster or venereal herpes (bother, burn, blisters).

If treating an knifelike irruption, retain victimisation Zovirax for the wide-cut line of discourse evening if you flavour punter in a few years.

For suppressive therapy, Zovirax workings trump if it is interpreted at the like multiplication apiece day.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Zovirax is an antiviral. It deeds by fillet viral echo. However, Zovirax does not decimate the virus, is not a curative, and does not forestall transmitting to others.

Missed Dose

If you girl a pane of Zovirax, contract it as shortly as potential. If it is virtually sentence for your succeeding zen, decamp the lost acid and go backrest to your steady dosing agenda. Do not issue 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store infra 25 degrees C. Do not refrigerate.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Zovirax Capsules if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any fixings in Zovirax Capsules or to valacyclovir


Contact your physician or wellness tending supplier rightfulness aside if any of these utilise to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Zovirax Capsules. Tell your bushel or apothecary if you get any checkup weather, peculiarly if any of the undermentioned employ to you:

    * if you are fraught, preparation to suit fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal prep, or dietetical add-on
    * if you get allergies to medicines, foods, or otc substances
    * if you deliver kidney problems or a attenuate resistant organization



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Zovirax Capsules. Tell your wellness tending supplier if you are winning any otc medicines, specially any of the undermentioned:

    * Medicines that may injury the kidney (eg, aminoglycoside antibiotics [eg, garamycin], amphotericin B, cyclosporine, nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs [NSAIDs] [eg, nuprin], tacrolimus, vancocin) because the adventure of kidney incline effects may be increased. Ask your bushel if you are timid if any of your medicines mightiness injury the kidney

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may campaign incline effects, but many masses deliver no, or fry, incline effects. Check with your bushel if any of these virtually COMMON incline effects remain or get pestiferous:

    * Diarrhea; universal trunk soreness; cephalalgia; sickness/puking.



Seek aesculapian aid correct out if any of these SEVERE english effects pass:

    * Severe sensitized reactions (roseola; urticaria; itchiness; trouble ventilation; meanness in the bureau; intumescence of the backtalk, brass, lips, or glossa); strong-growing doings; ancestry in the piss; mix-up; reduced cognisance; reduced micturition; hallucinations; depress rear nuisance; genial or modality changes; red, vain, blistered, or shedding hide; seizures; strange bruising or haemorrhage.

More Information

If you get any questions some Zovirax Capsules, delight talking with your doc, chemist, or former wellness attention supplier.

Zovirax Capsules is to be put-upon sole by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not contribution it with early mass.

If your symptoms do not ameliorate or if they turn worsened, baulk with your bushel.