Nizoral (Ketoconazole)

Side effects

The most common side effects associated with Nizoral are:

• depression
• retching
• pain of stomach
• abnormal pain
• diarrhoea
• fatigue
• feeling lightheaded
• nausea
• migraine

Less common side effects include:

• allergy reactions (urticaria, breathing difficulties, rash, and eruption)
• suicidal thoughts
• pruritus
• troublesome swallowing
• liver damage

Side effects occurrence does not only depend on the medication you are taking, but also on your overall health and other factors.

Contraindications

Do not take Nizoral if you are allergic to Nizoral components.

Do not take Nizoral if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding.

Do not use Nizoral if you take astemizole (Hismanal), cisapride (Propulsid), midazolam (Versed), triazolam (Halcion).

Be careful if you are taking oral diabetes medicine as glipizide (Glucotrol), chlorpropamide (Diabinese), glyburide (Glynase, Diabeta, Micronase), tolazamide (Tolinase), tolbutamide (Orinase); tacrolimus (Prograf); rifampin (Rimactane, Rifadin); warfarin (Coumadin); cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune); antacids; famotidine (Pepcid, AC Pepcid), cimetidine (Tagamet HB, Tagamet), ranitidine (Zantac 75, Zantac), nizatidine (Axid AR, Axid); digoxin (Lanoxicaps, Lanoxin); methylprednisolone (Medrol); phenytoin (Dilantin); rabeprazole (Aciphex), omeprazole (Prilosec), lansoprazole (Prevacid).

Be careful if you have liver disease, achlorhydria.

Avoid consuming alcohol.

Try to avoid machine driving.

It can be dangerous to stop Nizoral taking suddenly.

Q: What does Nizoral mean?

A: Nizoral is an extra-class medicine which is taken in treatment of infections as throat yeast infections, vaginal yeast infections, fungal infections, esophagus. Nizoral is helpful for patients with Cushing's syndrome, women hair growth, prostate cancer, eumycetoma, tinea versicolor, leishmaniasis, high blood levels of calcium.

Q: What are brand and generic names of Nizoral?

A: Generic name of Nizoral is Ketoconazole. Brand name of Nizoral is Nizoral.

Q: In what way does Nizoral operate?

A: Nizoral operates by reducing fungi growth spreads by infection.

Q: What is Nizoral target?

A: Nizoral is developed with a help of medical professionals to fight with infections (throat yeast infections, vaginal yeast infections, fungal infections, esophagus), Cushing's syndrome, women hair growth, prostate cancer, eumycetoma, tinea versicolor, leishmaniasis, high blood levels of calcium. Target of Nizoral is to control, ward off, reduce and terminate fungi growth.

Q: What is safety information?

A: Do not use Nizoral in case of taking astemizole (Hismanal); cisapride (Propulsid); midazolam (Versed); triazolam (Halcion). If you want to achieve most effective results without any side effects it is better to avoid alcohol. Try to avoid machine driving. It can be dangerous to stop Nizoral taking suddenly.