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Product trade name: Sumatriptan
Pharmaceutical active ingredients containing related brand and generic drugs, medications or other health care products: Sumatriptan available forms, composition, doses: Sumatriptan destination | category: Indications and usages, anatomical therapeutic chemical and diseases classification codes: Pharmaceutical companies, researchers, developers, manufacturers, distributors and suppliers: Online pharmacy, drugstores, pharma, health and beauty shops selling this or related pharmaceutical products: There is an additional general information about this medication active ingredient sumatriptan: Pharmacological action Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals is a drug in tablet pharmaceutical form that has sumatriptan as the active element. This drug under trade name Imitrex also contains inactive elements such as the following: croscarmellose sodium; dibasic calcium phosphate; magnesium stearate; microcrystalline cellulose; sodium bicarbonate; hypromellose; iron oxide; titanium dioxide; traction Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals is a drug used to alleviate the headache brought about by migraine attacks. Why is Sumatriptan prescribed? This medication is primarily used in treating a migraine attack. Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals is not intended for use in preventing migraine attacks but rather it is intended to relieve the migraine. This drug may also be used for purposes other than those indicated in this guide. Dosage and administration Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals should be taken in exactly as described by your doctor. If there are matters that you do not understand, refer to your doctor, nurse or a pharmacist and ask him or her to explain those matters to you. Make sure to follow all of your doctor's instructions when taking in this medication. Dosage of Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals should be obtained from your doctor. Dosage may vary from person to person with regards to a variety of factors, which include severity of the condition, age and others. Do not take in more or less of this drug so as not to alter its affects and to prevent overdose. Sumatriptan doses are used only during migraine attacks. A missed dose of this medication is therefore not an issue. Sumatriptan side effects Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals may have any of the following serious side effects: Other side effects may also occur when you take Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals. Inform your doctor if you experience anything unusual while or after taking this medicine. Contraindications Sumatriptan tablets should not be administered to patients with hemiplegic or basilar migraine. Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals tablets and any ergotamine-containing or ergot-type medication (like dihydroergotamine or methysergide) should not be used within 24 hours of each other, nor should IMITREX and another 5-HT1 agonist. Also this drug in tablets is contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity to sumatriptan or any of their components. Sumatriptan tablets are contraindicated in patients with severe hepatic impairment. Special instructions Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals should not be administered to patients who have had a previous symptoms, history or signs of the following: Sumatriptan drug interactions Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals has been known to interact with Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors and alcohol. Other drugs may also interact with this medication. Inform your doctor if you are taking any medications other than sumatriptan including over the counter prescriptions such as vitamins, minerals and even herbal products. Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals in case of emergency / overdose If you think you might be experiencing overdose of Sumatriptan Mylan Pharmaceuticals, seek immediate medical attention or call poison control. Inform your doctor afterwards. Overdose symptoms of sumatriptan in ANIMALS include the following: convulsions; tremor; paralysis; inactivity; ptosis; erythema of the extremities; abnormal respiration; cyanosis; ataxia mydriasis; salivation; lacrimation Symptoms of overdose in humans may be a whole lot different from the overdose symptoms of animals.
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