Spiramycin
Chemical Class: Macrolide
Uses for spiramycin
Spiramycin is used to treat many kinds of infections. It is often used to treat toxoplasmosis in pregnant women since spiramycin decreases the chance that the unborn baby will get the infection. Spiramycin may also be used for other problems as determined by your doctor. It will not work for colds, flu, or other virus infections.
Spiramycin is available only with your doctor's prescription.
Before using spiramycin
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For spiramycin, the following should be considered:
Allergies
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to spiramycin or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Pediatric
Spiramycin has been tested in children and, in effective doses, has not been shown to cause different side effects or problems in children than it does in adults.
Geriatric
Many medicines have not been studied specifically in older people. Therefore, it may not be known whether they work exactly the same way they do in younger adults or if they cause different side effects or problems in older people. There is no specific information comparing use of spiramycin in the elderly with use in other age groups.
Interactions with medicines
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking spiramycin, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using spiramycin with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
- Dihydroergotamine
- Ergoloid Mesylates
- Ergonovine
- Ergotamine
- Levomethadyl
- Methylergonovine
- Methysergide
Using spiramycin with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Acecainide
- Ajmaline
- Amiodarone
- Amitriptyline
- Amoxapine
- Aprindine
- Arsenic Trioxide
- Astemizole
- Azimilide
- Bretylium
- Chloral Hydrate
- Chloroquine
- Cholera Vaccine, Live
- Clarithromycin
- Desipramine
- Dibenzepin
- Disopyramide
- Dofetilide
- Dolasetron
- Doxepin
- Dronedarone
- Droperidol
- Enflurane
- Erythromycin
- Flecainide
- Fluconazole
- Fluoxetine
- Foscarnet
- Gemifloxacin
- Halofantrine
- Haloperidol
- Halothane
- Hydroquinidine
- Ibutilide
- Imipramine
- Isoflurane
- Isradipine
- Lidoflazine
- Lorcainide
- Mefloquine
- Nortri...
