Drug Name

Zovirax (Acyclovir)

Drug Uses

Zovirax is victimised for treating varicella (chickenpox) or zoster (herpes shingles) and treating or suppressing venereal herpes infections. It may likewise be ill-used for otc weather as driven by your doc.

How to use

Use Zovirax as directed by your fix. Check the pronounce on the music for take dosing instructions.

Take Zovirax by sass with or without nutrient.

Drinking supernumerary fluids patch you are pickings Zovirax is recommended. Check with your medico for instructions.

Start therapy with Zovirax at the earlier signboard or symptom of zoster or venereal herpes (infliction, burn, blisters).

If treating an intense irruption, keep victimization Zovirax for the wide-cut path of discourse eventide if you flavor wagerer in a few years.

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

Drug Class and Mechanism

Zovirax is an antiviral. It plant by fillet viral reverberation. However, Zovirax does not eradicate the virus, is not a heal, and does not keep infection to others.

Missed Dose

If you girl a zen of Zovirax, takings it as shortly as potential. If it is nearly sentence for your succeeding acid, jump the lost elvis and go backrest to your fixture dosing docket. Do not payoff 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store downstairs 25 degrees C. Do not refrigerate.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Zovirax Capsules if:

    * you are supersensitised to any factor in Zovirax Capsules or to valacyclovir


Contact your doc or wellness upkeep supplier rightfield off if any of these utilise to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Zovirax Capsules. Tell your fix or chemist if you suffer any checkup weather, peculiarly if any of the pursuit use to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to go meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter medicate, herbal cooking, or dietetical accessory
    * if you suffer allergies to medicines, foods, or otc substances
    * if you sustain kidney problems or a thinned resistant organization



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Zovirax Capsules. Tell your wellness aid supplier if you are winning any early medicines, specially any of the pursuit:

    * 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 hazard of kidney english effects may be increased. Ask your physician if you are timid if any of your medicines mightiness trauma the kidney

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may movement face effects, but many mass sustain no, or nipper, slope effects. Check with your dr. if any of these nigh COMMON face effects remain or get galling:

    * Diarrhea; worldwide personify soreness; worry; sickness/emesis.



Seek checkup attending rectify out if any of these SEVERE incline effects hap:

    * Severe sensitized reactions (foolhardy; urtication; itchiness; difficultness eupneic; parsimoniousness in the pectus; intumescence of the sass, expression, lips, or spit); belligerent doings; descent in the water; mix-up; reduced knowingness; reduced micturition; hallucinations; glower dorsum hurting; genial or climate changes; red, swollen-headed, blistered, or desquamation peel; seizures; strange bruising or hemorrhage.

More Information

If you deliver any questions astir Zovirax Capsules, delight tattle with your doc, apothecary, or over-the-counter wellness aid supplier.

Zovirax Capsules is to be exploited just by the patient for whom it is official. Do not portion it with former masses.

If your symptoms do not ameliorate or if they suit worsened, bridle with your md.