Abiratred Tablet 60's
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About Abiratred Tablet
Abiratred Tablet belongs to the group of medicines called androgen biosynthesis inhibitors that is indicated in combination with prednisone or prednisolone to treat prostate cancer in adult men that have spread to other body parts.
Abiratred Tablet contains ‘Abiraterone’ that works by stopping the body from making testosterone, thereby slowing the growth of prostate cancer.
In some cases, Abiratred Tablet may cause common side effects such as diarrhoea, urinary tract infection, high blood pressure, low blood potassium, and oedema. If any of the side effects persist or worsen, consult your doctor.
Abiratred Tablet is not for use in women, children, and adolescents. Abiratred Tablet should not be given in combination with Ra-233 (a radioactive isotope used to treat prostate cancer) due to the increased risk of bone fracture or death. Inform your doctor about your health condition and medications to rule out any side effects/interactions.
Uses of Abiratred Tablet
Abiratred Tablet is used in the treatment of prostate cancer. The detailed uses of Abiratred Tablet are as follows:
- Treats advanced prostate cancer: Abiratred Tablet lowers levels of certain hormones (androgens) that fuel the growth of prostate cancer cells.
- Slows cancer progression: Abiratred Tablet helps delay the spread and worsening of prostate cancer.
- Improves overall management of prostate cancer: Abiratred Tablet is often used along with other medicines to enhance treatment effectiveness.
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Directions for Use
- Abiratred Tablet can be taken on an empty stomach, i.e., 1 hour before or 2 hours after food.
- Follow your doctor’s instructions on the dosage and timing of this medication to ensure safety.
- Swallow Abiratred Tablet as a whole with a glass of water.
- Do not chew, crush, or break it.
Medicinal Benefits
Abiratred Tablet belongs to the group of medicines called androgen biosynthesis inhibitors, indicated in combination with prednisone or prednisolone to treat prostate cancer in adult men that have spread to other body parts. Abiratred Tablet contains ‘Abiraterone’ that works by stopping the body from making testosterone, thereby slowing the growth of prostate cancer. It is indicated in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) who have received prior chemotherapy containing docetaxel and metastatic high-risk castration-sensitive prostate cancer (CSPC). Abiratred Tablet is prescribed in the early stages of the disease, where it is still responding to hormone therapy. It is used with androgen deprivation therapy (a treatment that lowers testosterone).
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- Eat a balanced diet and drink enough water.
- Manage stress with yoga and meditation.
- Limit alcohol and caffeine.
- Physical activities like walking or jogging might help boost energy and make you feel less tired.
- Exercise for at least 30 minutes most days of the week.
- Limit alcohol consumption.
- Consider a low carbohydrate diet that limits grains, starchy vegetables and fruit. Include foods rich in protein and fat.
- Avoid excess sugar, fatty foods and carbohydrates.
- Aim for weight loss as it helps to improve cardiovascular health and minimize the risk of complications related to obesity.
- Inform your doctor about the medication you're taking and the UTI symptoms you're experiencing.
- Your doctor may adjust your medication regimen or consider alternative medications or dosages that may reduce the risk of UTIs.
- Drink plenty of water (at least 8-10 glasses a day) to help flush out bacteria. Avoid sugary drinks and caffeine, which can exacerbate UTI symptoms.
- Urinate when you feel the need rather than holding it in. This can help prevent bacterial growth and reduce the risk of UTIs.
- Consider cranberry supplements: Cranberry supplements may help prevent UTIs by preventing bacterial adhesion.
- Monitor UTI symptoms and report any changes to your doctor.
- If antibiotics are prescribed, take them as directed and complete the full course.
- Inform your doctor about the symptoms you're experiencing due to medication.
- Your doctor may adjust your treatment plan, which could include changing your medication, adding new medications, or offering advice on managing your symptoms.
- Practice good hygiene, including frequent handwashing, avoiding close contact with others, and avoiding sharing utensils or personal items.
- Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of fluids to help loosen and clear mucus from your nose, throat, and airways.
- Get plenty of rest and engage in stress-reducing activities to help your body recover. If your symptoms don't subside or worsen, consult your doctor for further guidance.
- Tell your doctor about the cough symptoms you're experiencing, which may be triggered by your medication.
- Your doctor may adjust your treatment plan by changing your medication, adding new medications, or providing guidance on managing your cough symptoms.
- Practice good hygiene, including frequent handwashing, avoiding close contact with others, and avoiding sharing utensils or personal items.
- Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of fluids, such as water, tea, or soup, to help thin out mucus and soothe your throat.
- Get plenty of rest and engage in stress-reducing activities to help your body recover. If your cough persists or worsens, consult your doctor for further guidance.
- Inform Your Doctor: Notify your doctor immediately about your diarrhoea symptoms. This allows them to adjust your medication or provide guidance on managing side effects.
- Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of fluids to replace lost water and electrolytes. Choose water, clear broth, and electrolyte-rich drinks. Avoid carbonated or caffeinated beverages to effectively rehydrate your body.
- Follow a Bland Diet: Eat easy-to-digest foods to help firm up your stool and settle your stomach. Try incorporating bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, plain crackers, and boiled vegetables into your diet.
- Avoid Trigger Foods: Steer clear of foods that can worsen diarrhoea, such as spicy, fatty, or greasy foods, high-fibre foods, and dairy products (especially if you're lactose intolerant).
- Practice Good Hygiene: Maintain good hygiene to prevent the spread of infection. To stay healthy, wash your hands frequently, clean and disinfect surfaces regularly, and avoid exchanging personal belongings with others.
- Take Anti-Diarrheal Medications: If your doctor advises, anti-diarrheal medications such as loperamide might help manage diarrhoea symptoms. Always follow your doctor's directions.
- Keep track of your diarrhoea symptoms. If they don't get better or worse or are accompanied by severe stomach pain, blood, or dehydration signs (like extreme thirst or dark urine), seek medical help.
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Drug Warnings
Do not take Abiratred Tablet if you are allergic to any of its components, if you have severe liver damage, or in combination with Ra-233 (used to treat prostate cancer). Inform your doctor if you have liver problems, high blood pressure, low blood potassium, heart failure, heart or blood vessel problems, irregular or rapid heartbeat, heart rhythm problems, shortness of breath, rapid weight gain, swelling in the legs, ankles, or feet, high blood sugar, bone problems, or if you have taken ketoconazole in the past for prostate cancer. Abiratred Tablet may cause libido (decreased sex drive), muscle weakness, decreased red blood cells, and/or muscle pain. Abiratred Tablet should not be given in combination with Ra-233 due to an increased risk of bone fracture or death.
Drug-Drug Interactions
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Taking Abiratred Tablet with Mesoridazine can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythm.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Abiratred Tablet and Mesoridazine together is not recommended as it can result in an interaction. It can be taken if your doctor has advised it. However, contact a doctor immediately if you experience sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, chest pain or tightness, rapid heartbeat. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Coadministration of Abiratred Tablet with Eliglustat can increase the levels of Eliglustat in the body. This increases the risk or severity of side effects.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Abiratred Tablet with Eliglustat is not recommended as it can result in an interaction, it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. However, contact a doctor immediately if you experience sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, slow heart rate, weak pulse, or heart palpitations. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Taking Abiratred Tablet with ziprasidone can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythm.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between Abiratred Tablet and ziprasidone, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. However, consult a doctor if you experience sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, or shortness of breath. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Taking Abiratred Tablet with Saquinavir can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythms.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Abiratred Tablet and Saquinavir together is not recommended as it can result in an interaction; it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. However, contact a doctor immediately if you experience sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, chest pain or tightness, rapid heartbeat, or memory loss. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Taking Abiratred Tablet with Thioridazine can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythms.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Abiratred Tablet and Thioridazine together is not recommended and can result in an interaction; it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. However, contact a doctor immediately if you experience sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, chest pain or tightness, or a rapid heartbeat. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Coadministration of Abiratred Tablet with leflunomide can increase the risk of liver problems.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between Abiratred Tablet and leflunomide, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. However, consult a doctor if you experience ever, chills, joint pain or swelling, unusual bleeding or bruising, skin rash, itching, loss of appetite, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark-colored urine, light-colored stools, and/or yellowing of the skin or eyes. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Taking carbamazepine and Abiratred Tablet together may reduce the blood level of Abiratred Tablet.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking carbamazepine and Abiratred Tablet together can result in an interaction, it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. Without consulting a doctor, never stop taking any medication.
Taking Abiratred Tablet with Vandetanib can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythms.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Abiratred Tablet with Vandetanib together can result in an interaction, it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. However, contact a doctor immediately if you experience sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, chest pain or tightness, rapid heartbeat, or memory loss. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Using Panobinostat together with Abiratred Tablet can increase the risk of an irregular heart rhythm that may be serious.
How to manage the interaction:
There may be a possibility of interaction between Abiratred Tablet and Panobinostat, but it can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. If you have any of these symptoms, it's important to contact a doctor right away: an irregular heart rhythm, a heart condition, congenital long qt syndrome, conduction abnormalities, severe or prolonged diarrhea, vomiting, complications, sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, or heart palpitations. Do not stop using any medications without talking to a doctor.
Taking Abiratred Tablet with Arsenic trioxide can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythm.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Abiratred Tablet with arsenic trioxide together can result in an interaction; it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. However, if you experience sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, chest pain or tightness, or a rapid heartbeat, contact a doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
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Diet & Lifestyle Advise
- Eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly to maintain proper weight.
- Avoid smoking and alcohol consumption.
- Avoid fast, fried, processed meats, refined carbs, and added sugar.
- Get optimal sleep; rest well.
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Alcohol
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It is unknown if alcohol affects Abiratred Tablet . Please consult your doctor.
Pregnancy
Unsafe
Abiratred Tablet is not for use in women.
Breast Feeding
Not applicable
Abiratred Tablet is not for use in women.
Driving
Safe if prescribed
Abiratred Tablet is not likely to affect your ability to drive or operate machinery.
Liver
Caution
Do not take Abiratred Tablet if you have severe liver damage. Please consult your doctor if you have a liver impairment or any concerns.
Kidney
Consult your doctor
Please consult your doctor if you have kidney impairment or any concerns.
Children
Not applicable
Abiratred Tablet is not for use in children and adolescents.
Heart
Avoid taking Abiratred Tablet if you have heart problems unless strictly prescribed by your doctor. It may cause or worsen hypertension, arrhythmias, fluid retention, and heart failure, requiring close cardiac monitoring.
Geriatrics
Caution
Geriatric patients may take Abiratred Tablet , but only under close medical supervision. Age-related risks like high blood pressure, liver issues, and heart complications require regular monitoring.
FAQs
Abiratred Tablet is used to treat Prostate cancer.
Abiratred Tablet works by stopping the body from making testosterone, thereby slowing the growth of prostate cancer.
Prednisolone/prednisone is prescribed along with Abiratred Tablet to lower the chances of getting high blood pressure, fluid retention (having too much water in the body), or low blood potassium levels.
Abiratred Tablet should not be given along with Ra-233 (a radioactive isotope used to treat prostate cancer) due to the increased risk of bone fracture or death. If you are prescribed to take Ra-233 following treatment with Abiratred Tablet and prednisolone/prednisone, you must wait five days before starting treatment with Ra-233.
No, Abiratred Tablet cannot cure prostate cancer. However, it is used to manage advanced or metastatic prostate cancer that works by inhibiting the production of testosterone, thereby preventing the growth and spread of cancer.
No, Abiratred Tablet is not a chemotherapy drug. It is a hormone therapy medication, which reduces testosterone levels to help manage prostate cancer.
Yes, Abiratred Tablet may affect the liver. Therefore, the doctor may advise regular blood tests to monitor its effects on the liver.
For patients taking Abiratred Tablet liver investigations are recommended. However, the frequency may differ for each individual and can be determined by the doctor based on your medical condition.
Abiratred Tablet can be taken orally on an empty stomach, either 1 hour before a meal or 2 hours after the meal. Swallow it as a whole with a glass of water. Do not chew or break it.
The side effects of Abiratred Tablet include oedema, urinary tract infection, high blood pressure, low blood potassium, and diarrhoea. Consult the doctor if any of these symptoms persist or worsen.
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