Acitretin Medicine - Information, Side effects and uses of Acitretin
Brand name: Neotigason
Type of drug: Oral retinoid
Uses: The treatment of extensive and severe psoriasis where other treatments have failed.
Acitretin is a form of vitamin A. The exact way that acitretin works is unknown.
How it works: Slows down the rapid reproduction of skin cells which causes the scaling of the skin which characterises psoriasis.
Possible adverse effects: Dryness in the mouth, skin and eyes. Inflamed skin. May cause hair to thin and fall out.
Other information: Usually prescribed as capsules. Avoid getting pregnant before treatment and for at least two years after taking this drug. Avoid exposure to sunlight and sunray lamps. Liver and blood tests will be conducted during treatment to monitor effects and levels of the medication.
Cautions
Children: This drug is either not recommended for children, or is recommended only for children above a certain age.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding: This drug is either not recommended for use by women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, or the precise effects are not known and it should therefore only be used with caution and under medical advice.
How do I take Acitretin medication?
Take to regulate as prescribed by his doctor.He/she can handle this drug in one of two ways. The first being a form of inhalation of the aerosol. The time is the form of the delivery preferred like him the shipments to where the drug incorporates the circulation of the blood allowing it of this fact to begin to work quickly much more that of other forms. You must clarify always your mouth after the detent of this drug because the occasion to develop an eruption of the mouth is possible when it does not clarify itself correctly after the inhalation. This drug also comes in the capsule form. The capsules take the newspaper as of the two three times and they are due to take generally with certain type of food even if it is not nothing else that a single piece of the bread. This drug can be very hard in the stomach due to the energy of chemical agents implied doing it. Better Acitretin is absorbed once taken with the food or the meals.
Drug Interactions
- Combining alcohol with acitretin produces acitretin's parent compound, etretinate. Etretinate stays in the body much longer than acitretin and may therefore affect the fetus for an even longer period of time than might acitretin. Avoid alcoholic beverages.
- Combining acitretin with tetracyclines may increase the risk of severe pressure on the brain.
- Acitretin reduces the effectiveness of low-progestin oral contraceptives (the "mini-pill"). If you are taking one of these contraceptives, switch to another type of birth control and use at least one other contraceptive method for at least 3 years after treatment is completed.
- Do not take a vitamin A supplement that has more than the standard minimum daily requirement (1000 mcg). Excess vitamin A plus acitretin exposes you to possible vitamin A toxicity.
- People combining acitretin and glyburide (an antidiabetic) may have unusually low blood-sugar levels. Your doctor may have to adjust your diabetic treatment program while you are taking acitretin.
- Acitretin should not be given to patients who are sensitive to parabens
- Notify your doctor if you are taking etretinate, isotretinoin, oral or topical tretinoin, or cyclosporine.
- Combining acitretin with methotrexate increases the risk of liver damage.
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