How Effective is Nizoral & What are It’s Side Effects?

Nizoral medicine must be used only when other antifungal medicines cannot be used. Nizoral medicine can cause various dangers to your liver resulting in death or liver transplant.

If you experience any of these following symptoms of liver damage, get immediate medical assistance, itching, clay colored stools, upper stomach pain, jaundice (yellowing of eyes or skin), nausea, dark urine, loss of appetite or tired feeling.

Nizoral is an antifungal medication which mainly helps in effectively fighting virus infections in the body.

This medicine Nizoral is for the effective treatment of fungal infection of the toenails or fingernails. Similarly, this medicine Nizoral is not for the treatment of Cushing syndrome or prostate cancer.

Nizoral can be used only when other antifungal medicines cannot be used. Nizoral medicine can cause various dangers to your liver resulting in death or liver transplant.

There are few medicines that will interact with this medicine and shouldn’t be taken at the same time. In case you are using any of these medicines then your doctor must change your treatment plan, alprazolam, triazolam, quinidine, disopyramide, dihydroergotamine, midazolam, lovastatin, simvastatin, nisoldipine, methadone, ergotamine, eplerenone, cisapride, ranolazine, dofetilide. Few reactions will result in life threatening irregular heartbeats.

In case you have pounding or fast heartbeats, severe dizziness, headache with chest pain, call your doctor immediately.

If you have liver disease or allergic to it, do not take Nizoral. There are few medicines that will interact with this medicine and should not be taken at the same time. Few reactions will result in life threatening irregular heartbeats. In case you are using any of these medicines then your doctor must change your treatment plan.

• Pimozide or cisapride.
• Triazolam, midazolam or alprazolam.
• Ergotamine or dihydroergotamine.
• Methadone.
• Simvastatin or lovastatin.
• Ranolazine, quinidine, nisoldipine, eplerenone. Dronedarone, dofetilide or disopyramide.

You must tell your doctor if you have any of these conditions to make Nizoral medicine safe for you:

• If you are using heart rhythm medication, certain antibiotics, anti-malaria medication, migraine headache medicine, depression medicine, mental illness medicines.
• Any family or personal history of long QT syndrome.
• Any liver problem history.
• Any adrenal gland problems.

If you are planning to become pregnant or pregnant at the time of treatment, inform your doctor as it is unknown if Nizoral medicine will harm the unborn child

You should not breast feed your child while taking Nizoral medicine as it will pass through breast milk to the nursing child and harm the child.

Nizoral medicine is not to be given to children without any doctor’s advice

Nizoral medicine is to be taken only as per the prescribed dosages. Do not take Nizoral medicine in any smaller or larger amount or whenever it is not needed. It is important to follow all the direction and guidelines in the prescription label.

Nizoral medicine is not to be shared with any other person even if they have similar symptoms as yours.

Doctor will conduct regular blood tests to ensure you do not have any such conditions that will prevent you from taking this medication safely.

Your doctor will conduct regular blood tests to test your liver function while taking this medicine.

You must have this medicine throughout the full prescribed course. There are high chances of your symptoms to improve much before the infection is cured completely.

Do not skip your medicines and have them in time as skipping will only increase the resistance of the infection to the medicine.

If the patient shows any allergic reactions to this medicine such as swelling of tongue, face, throat, lips, difficulty in breathing or hives, get immediate medical assistance.

If you have any of these severe side effects of Nizoral, call your doctor immediately:

• Liver problems – dark urine, upper stomach pain, jaundice (yellowing of eyes or skin), loss of appetite, tired feeling, itching, clay colored stools.
• Vomiting and nausea, unusual tired feeling or weakness.
• Fainting, severe dizziness, pounding or fast heartbeats, headache with chest pain.

Here are the other common side effects of this medicine

• Diarrhea.
• Stomach pain or mild nausea is also a side effect of Nizoral.
• Headache.

There are several medicines that interact with Nizoral which includes, vitamins, prescription medicines, herbal products and over the counter medicines. It is not possible to list all the interactions here. This is why you need to tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and stop while having Nizoral. It is also important to give all your doctors names and doses of all medicines you are taking as part of the treatments.