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About Akurit Tablet
Akurit Tablet is used to treat and prevent tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs, but it can also spread to other body parts such as the kidneys, brain, spine, and bone marrow.
Akurit Tablet is a combination of two anti-tuberculosis drugs Rifampicin, and Isoniazid. Rifampicin inhibits DNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity in the bacteria. Isoniazid inhibits the biosynthesis of mycolic acid, which is the major component of the cell wall. Together, Akurit Tablet kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes TB (tuberculosis).
In some cases, you may experience certain common side effects, such as drowsiness, dizziness, headache, weakness, muscle pain, heartburn, diarrhoea, gas, and numbness or tingling sensation. Most of these side effects do not require medical attention and will resolve gradually over time. However, you are advised to talk to your doctor if you experience these side effects persistently.
Consult your doctor before taking Akurit Tablet if you are pregnant or planning for pregnancy. Avoid breastfeeding while taking Akurit Tablet as it passes into breast milk. Akurit Tablet may cause dizziness, and vision problems, so drive only if you are alert. Avoid alcohol consumption while taking Akurit Tablet as it could lead to increased drowsiness, dizziness and liver damage.
Uses of Akurit Tablet
Akurit Tablet is used in the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). The detailed uses of Akurit Tablet are as follows:
- Treats active tuberculosis: Akurit Tablet works by killing the bacteria that cause TB, helping to clear the infection from the lungs and other affected organs.
- Prevents spread and recurrence: Akurit Tablet is also used to prevent TB from coming back or spreading to others, especially in people at high risk.
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Directions for Use
- Akurit Tablet should be taken on an empty stomach, at least 30 minutes before or 2 hours after a meal.
- It is usually taken once daily or as prescribed by your doctor.
- Swallow Akurit Tablet as a whole with a glass of water.
- Do not crush or chew this medication.
Key Benefits
Akurit Tablet is a combination of two anti-tuberculosis drugs, Rifampicin, and Isoniazid. Rifampicin inhibits DNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity in the bacteria. Isoniazid inhibits the biosynthesis of mycolic acid, which is the major component of the cell wall. Together, Akurit Tablet kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes TB (tuberculosis).
How Akurit Tablet Works
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- If you have excess nerve pain and numbness, soak in Epsom salt and warm water. This can help ease the pain and associated discomfort.
- Use compression socks and make sure to rest for a while to get relief from pain.
- Avoid smoking and intake of alcohol or fluids that aggravate the pain.
- Massage your feet or affected area often to get relief from pain. Take the medication prescribed by your doctor without fail.
- Consult your doctor if you experience skin redness, itching, or irritation after taking medication.
- Your doctor may adjust your treatment plan by changing your medication or providing guidance on managing your erythema symptoms.
- Your doctor may recommend or prescribe certain medications to help alleviate symptoms.
- Apply cool compresses or calamine lotion to the affected skin area to reduce redness and itching.
- Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water to help alleviate symptoms and keep your skin hydrated.
- Monitor your skin condition closely and promptly report any changes, worsening symptoms, or concerns to your healthcare provider.
- 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.
- Drink water or other clear fluids.
- To prevent worsening of pain, limit intake of tea, coffee, or alcohol.
- Include bland foods like rice, toast, crackers, and rice in your diet.
- Avoid lying down immediately after eating as it may cause indigestion or heartburn.
- Avoid acidic and spicy food as it may cause indigestion.
- Inform your doctor about the nausea and discuss possible alternatives to the medication or adjustments to the dosage.
- Divide your daily food intake into smaller, more frequent meals to reduce nausea.
- Opt for bland, easily digestible foods like crackers, toast, plain rice, bananas, and applesauce.
- Avoid certain foods that can trigger nausea, such as fatty, greasy, spicy, and smelly foods.
- Drink plenty of fluids, such as water, clear broth, or electrolyte-rich beverages like coconut water or sports drinks.
- Use ginger (tea, ale, or candies) to help relieve nausea.
- Get adequate rest and also avoid strenuous activities that can worsen nausea.
- Talk to your doctor about taking anti-nausea medication if your nausea is severe.
- Record when your nausea occurs, what triggers it, and what provides relief to help you identify patterns and manage your symptoms more effectively.
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Drug Warnings
Do not take Akurit Tablet if you are allergic to any of its contents; if you have jaundice, or if you are taking HIV medicines (saquinavir or ritonavir). Before starting Akurit Tablet, please inform your doctor if you have diabetes, epilepsy, gout, mental health problems, HIV infection, malnutrition, peripheral neuropathy, porphyria, bleeding problems, kidney or liver problems. Consult your doctor before taking Akurit Tablet if you are pregnant or planning for pregnancy. Avoid breastfeeding while taking Akurit Tablet as it passes into breast milk. Akurit Tablet may cause dizziness, and drowsiness, so drive only if you are alert. Avoid alcohol consumption while taking Akurit Tablet as it could lead to increased drowsiness, dizziness and liver damage.
Drug-Drug Interactions
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When ranolazine is taken with Akurit Tablet, it can reduce the blood levels and effects of ranolazine.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between ranolazine and Akurit Tablet, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. However, if you experience any unusual symptoms, contact a doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
When Indinavir is taken with Akurit Tablet, it can reduce the blood levels and effects of Indinavir.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between indinavir and Akurit Tablet, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. However, if you experience any unusual symptoms, contact your doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Taking darunavir with Akurit Tablet can decrease the blood levels of darunavir, which may make the medication less effective.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between darunavir and Akurit Tablet, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. However, if you experience any unusual symptoms, contact your doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Taking pirfenidone with Akurit Tablet can reduce the levels and effects of pirfenidone
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between pirfenidone and Akurit Tablet, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. However, if you experience any unusual symptoms, contact a doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Taking Voriconazole with Akurit Tablet can increase blood level of Voriconazole.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between Voriconazole with Akurit Tablet, it can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. However, if you experience any unusual symptoms contact a doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Taking saquinavir with Akurit Tablet can increase the risk or severity of side effects.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between pyrazinamide and Akurit Tablet, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. However, if you experience fever, stomach pain, less desire to eat, nausea, yellowing of the skin or eyes, or dark urine, contact your doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
When Akurit Tablet is taken with Regorafenib, it can increase the levels of Regorafenib leading to side effects.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Regorafenib with Akurit Tablet is not recommended, it taken can be taken if prescribed by the doctor.
When Lomitapide is taken with Akurit Tablet, Akurit Tablet may increase the blood levels of lomitapide which leads to side effects.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Akurit Tablet with Lomitapide is not recommended but can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. However, if you experience fever, chills, joint pain or swelling, unusual bleeding or bruising, skin rash, itching, exhaustion, nausea, vomiting, dark urine, light stools, and skin or eye yellowing, decreased hunger, consult the doctor.
When Lovastatin is taken with Akurit Tablet, can increase the risk of myopathy (muscles problems), including rhabdomyolysis (a condition that causes your muscles to break down, which leads to muscle death).
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Akurit Tablet with Lovastatin is not recommended but can be taken if a doctor has prescribed it.
Coadministration of amlodipine and Akurit Tablet together may lower amlodipine blood levels, which makes the medicine less effective.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction between amlodipine and Akurit Tablet, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
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Diet & Lifestyle Advise
Pineapple juice might help soothe the symptoms of cough and cold. It also has anti-inflammatory and mucolytic properties.
Foods rich in vitamin C such as kiwi, broccoli, and bell pepper helps in improving the immune system.
Avoid processed and fried foods.
Warm ginger tea or warm soup can help in providing relief from cough.
Avoid foods and drinks containing histamine or tyramine such as cured meat, matured cheese, soya, tuna, salmon, mackerel, wine, and beer.
Quit smoking and avoid alcohol consumption.
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Alcohol
Safe if prescribed
Avoid alcohol consumption while taking Akurit Tablet as it could lead to increased drowsiness, dizziness and liver damage.
Pregnancy
Consult your doctor
Please consult your doctor if you are pregnant, your doctor will prescribe Akurit Tablet only if the benefits outweigh the risks.
Breast Feeding
Consult your doctor
Akurit Tablet passes into breast milk. Do not breastfeed while taking Akurit Tablet.
Driving
Safe if prescribed
Akurit Tablet may cause dizziness, drowsiness, numbness and tingling sensation in hands and feet. Do not drive or operate machinery if you experience these symptoms.
Liver
Consult your doctor
Dose adjustment may be needed. Please consult your doctor before taking Akurit Tablet if you have liver impairment/liver disease.
Kidney
Consult your doctor
Dose adjustment may be needed. Please consult your doctor if you have any concerns regarding this or if you have kidney impairment/kidney disease before taking Akurit Tablet.
Children
Safe if prescribed
Please consult your doctor. Your doctor may suggest suitable dose and dosage form based on your child's age, body weight and medical condition. Kid tablets could be used in children if prescribed by the doctor.
Heart
Akurit Tablet can be used in heart patients if prescribed by the physician. Please consult your physician if you have any concerns.
Geriatrics
Consult your doctor
Akurit Tablet is not recommended for use in elderly patients as it can lead to side effects.
FAQs
Akurit Tablet belongs to the group of medicines called anti-tuberculosis drugs primarily used to treat and prevent tuberculosis.
Akurit Tablet is a combination of two anti-tuberculosis drugs, namely: Rifampicin, and Isoniazid. Rifampicin inhibits DNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity in the bacteria. Isoniazid inhibits the biosynthesis of mycolic acid, which is the major component of the cell wall. Together, Akurit Tablet kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis which causes TB (tuberculosis).
Do not stop taking Akurit Tablet despite symptomatic relief. To treat your condition effectually, continue taking Akurit Tablet for as long as it has been prescribed for you.
Do not take Akurit Tablet along with antacids as it might decrease the effectiveness of Akurit Tablet. Maintain a minimum gap of 1hour between both.
Consult your doctor before taking Akurit Tablet with other medicines. Medicines used to treat TB such as PAS (P-amino salicylic acid) and cycloserine should be taken 8hours apart from Akurit Tablet.
Akurit Tablet contains isoniazid which might interact with foods and drinks containing histamine or tyramine such as cured meat, matured cheese, soya, tuna, salmon, mackerel, wine, and beer. Avoid these foods while taking Akurit Tablet.
Akurit Tablet might decrease the effectiveness of oral contraceptives (birth control pills). This could lead to an unplanned pregnancy. Instead, use a reliable barrier method of contraception such as condoms or the coil while taking Akurit Tablet. Consult your doctor if you have any concerns regarding this; your doctor may suggest an alternate method of contraception.
Akurit Tablet may cause discolouration of teeth, sweat, urine, sputum (phlegm), saliva, or tears. The colour in tears may last for some time even after you stop taking Akurit Tablet. Do not worry as it is a common side-effect of Akurit Tablet.
Yes, Akurit Tablet might permanently stain soft contact lenses. Use spectacles and avoid wearing contact lens while taking Akurit Tablet.
Akurit Tablet may affect test results of some blood tests such as tests for folate, vitamin B12, and liver function. Inform the person doing the tests that you are taking Akurit Tablet.
Yes, Akurit Tablet may cause liver problems, especially in people who are 35 and older. Consult your doctor if you notice symptoms such as yellowing of eyes or skin, dark urine, pale stools, weakness, loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting. Your doctor may advise you to get regular liver tests while taking Akurit Tablet to check how your liver is functioning.
Yes, Akurit Tablet can cause temporary discoloration of urine and sweat. This is a common and harmless side effect.
Akurit Tablet is a combination of two anti-tuberculosis drugs, Rifampicin and Isoniazid. It is used in the treatment of Tuberculosis.
Before using Akurit Tablet, you should learn about its use, side effects, and limitations.
If you forget a dose of Akurit Tablet, take it immediately when you remember. However, if your next dose is near, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular schedule. Never double dose to make up for a missed dose, as this may increase side effects.
The best time to take Akurit Tablet is 30 minutes before food or 2 hours after food. This helps your body absorb the medication more effectively.
Store Akurit Tablet in a cool, dry place out of sunlight and children's reach. Check the expiration date regularly. To dispose of it, place it in a plastic bag and throw it away in household trash. Never flush it down the toilet or sink.
You should avoid alcohol while taking Akurit Tablet strictly to ensure safety and efficacy, as it can increase the risk of liver damage when combined with medications like Isoniazid and Rifampicin.
Common side effects of Akurit Tablet may include drowsiness, dizziness, headache, weakness, muscle pain, heartburn, diarrhea, gas, and numbness. However, these symptoms vanish as your body adjusts to the medication. If these symptoms become worse, please consult a doctor for relief.
Before using this medication, you should inform your doctor about your medical history, including any ongoing medicines, to avoid potential interactions and minimize side effects.
Taking more than the recommended dosage does not provide additional relief and can increase the risk of adverse effects.
Akurit Tablet is generally considered safe when used as prescribed by a doctor. However, like all medications, it can have side effects and potential interactions with other drugs. It's important to follow your doctor's instructions and inform them of any pre-existing and existing medical conditions or medication history to avoid negative complications.
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