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About N-Flox Tablet
N-Flox Tablet is used to treat bacterial infections such as urinary tract infections, prostatitis (prostate inflammation), and gonorrhoea (a sexually transmitted disease). Additionally, N-Flox Tablet is used to treat infections of the stomach and intestine, such as traveler’s diarrhoea.
N-Flox Tablet contains norfloxacin, which works by inhibiting the bacterial enzyme DNA gyrase, thereby preventing bacterial DNA replication and leading to the death of the bacteria.
Take N-Flox Tablet as prescribed. In some cases, N-Flox Tablet may cause common side effects such as abdominal cramps, nausea, diarrhoea, heartburn, headache, and dizziness. 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 the side effects persist or worsen.
Take N-Flox Tablet as prescribed. It can be taken 1 hour before food or 2 hours after food. Swallow the medicine as a whole with a glass of water. The dose and duration of medicine will be decided by the physician.
Before taking N-Flox Tablet , inform your doctor if you are allergic to any of its ingredients or other fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Also, let your doctor know if you experience pain in tendons, swelling, or inflammation, as N-Flox Tablet is associated with an increased risk of tendon rupture and tendonitis in those who have had a kidney, heart, or lung transplant.
Uses of N-Flox Tablet
N-Flox Tablet is used for the treatment of bacterial infections. The detailed uses of N-Flox Tablet are as follows:
- Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs): N-Flox Tablet is an antibiotic used to treat complicated and uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by certain bacteria.
- Gastrointestinal Infections: N-Flox Tablet can be used to treat infections of the stomach and intestine, such as traveller's diarrhoea.
- Prostatitis: N-Flox Tablet is also indicated for the treatment of prostatitis, an inflammation of the prostate gland often caused by bacterial infection.
- Gynecological Infections: N-Flox Tablet treats certain bacterial gynecological infections, especially those affecting the lower reproductive system, such as cervical and urethral gonorrhea caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
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Directions for Use
- N-Flox Tablet should be taken at least 1 hour before or 2 hours after a meal.
- It is usually taken twice daily or as prescribed by your doctor.
- Swallow N-Flox Tablet as a whole with a glass of water.
- Do not crush, chew, break, or open it.
Key Benefits
- N-Flox Tablet belongs to the group of medicines called quinolone antibiotics, used to treat bacterial infections.
- Additionally, N-Flox Tablet is also used to treat traveller’s diarrhoea.
- N-Flox Tablet is bactericidal in nature. It works by inhibiting the synthesis of bacterial DNA gyrase, thereby preventing the bacteria from repairing and multiplying, and ultimately killing them and treating infections.
- N-Flox Tablet is a broad-spectrum antibiotic effective against a wide range of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
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- Inform your doctor about dizziness symptoms. They may adjust your medication regimen or prescribe additional medications to manage symptoms.
- Follow your doctor's instructions for taking medication, and take it at the same time every day to minimize dizziness.
- When standing up, do so slowly and carefully to avoid sudden dizziness.
- Avoid making sudden movements, such as turning or bending quickly, which can exacerbate dizziness.
- Drink plenty of water throughout the day to stay hydrated and help alleviate dizziness symptoms.
- If you're feeling dizzy, sit or lie down and rest until the dizziness passes.
- Track when dizziness occurs and any factors that may trigger it, and share this information with your doctor to help manage symptoms.
- 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.
- Hydrate your body: Drink enough water to prevent dehydration and headaches.
- Calm Your Mind: Deep breathing and meditation can help you relax and relieve stress.
- Rest and Recharge: Sleep for 7-8 hours to reduce headache triggers.
- Take rest: lie down in a quiet, dark environment.
- Cold or warm compresses can help reduce tension.
- Stay Upright: Maintain good posture to keep symptoms from getting worse.
- To treat headaches naturally, try acupuncture or massage therapy.
- Over-the-counter pain relievers include acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
- Prescription Assistance: Speak with your doctor about more substantial drug alternatives.
- Severe Headaches: Seek emergency medical assistance for sudden, severe headaches.
- Frequent Headaches: If you get reoccurring headaches, consult your doctor.
- Headaches with Symptoms: Seek medical attention if your headaches include fever, disorientation, or weakness.
- 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.
- Rest well; get enough sleep.
- 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.
- 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 N-Flox Tablet if you are allergic to any of its ingredients
- Also, inform your doctor if you have experienced swelling or tendon tearing while taking quinolone antibiotics.
- N-Flox Tablet is associated with an increased risk of tendonitis and tendon rupture in all age groups; this risk is higher in patients over 60 years old, those taking corticosteroids, or those who have had kidney, heart, or lung transplants.
- Consult your doctor immediately if you experience tendon pain, swelling, or inflammation while taking N-Flox Tablet .
- Do not take N-Flox Tablet if you have myasthenia gravis, as it may cause increased muscle weakness.
- Talk to your doctor if you have epilepsy, low potassium levels, nervous or muscle disorders, head injury or brain tumour, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, or heart, kidney, or liver problems.
- Consult your doctor if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding before taking N-Flox Tablet .
- Avoid alcohol consumption while taking N-Flox Tablet , as it may increase dizziness.
- N-Flox Tablet may cause dizziness and vision problems, so avoid driving or operating machinery until you are fully alert.
Drug-Drug Interactions
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Coadministration of N-Flox Tablet with Disopyramide can increase the risk of irregular heart rhythm.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking N-Flox Tablet with Disopyramide 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.
Coadministration of N-Flox Tablet with Sotalol can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythm.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking N-Flox Tablet with Sotalol together is generally avoided as it can result in an interaction, it can be taken if a 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.
Coadministration of N-Flox Tablet with Cisapride can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythm.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking N-Flox Tablet with Cisapride 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 Mesoridazine together with N-Flox Tablet can increase the risk of an irregular heart rhythm that may be serious.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Mesoridazine with N-Flox Tablet is not recommended, please consult your doctor before taking it. You should seek immediate medical attention if you develop sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, or heart palpitations. Do not stop using any medications without talking to a doctor.
Using bepridil together with N-Flox Tablet can increase the risk of an irregular heart rhythm that may be serious.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking N-Flox Tablet with Bepridil is not recommended, please consult your doctor before taking it. You should seek immediate medical attention if you develop sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, or a fast or pounding heartbeat. Do not stop using any medications without talking to a doctor.
The combination of Amiodarone and N-Flox Tablet may significantly raise the risk of an abnormal heart rhythm.
How to manage the interaction:
Despite the fact that Amiodarone and N-Flox Tablet interact, it can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. If you get dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, or fast or racing heartbeats, consult a doctor. Do not stop taking any medications without visiting a doctor.
Co-administration of N-Flox Tablet with Glimepiride may sometimes affect blood glucose levels. Both high blood glucose and, less frequently, low blood glucose have been reported.
How to manage the interaction:
Although there is a possible interaction, Glimepiride can be taken with N-Flox Tablet if prescribed by the doctor. Consult the prescriber if you experience symptoms such as nervousness, confusion, headache, dizziness, drowsiness, tremors, nausea, hunger, weakness, perspiration, palpitation, rapid heartbeat, increased urination, increased thirst, and increased hunger. Maintaining blood glucose levels is advised. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Co-administration of N-Flox Tablet and Insulin detemir can have an impact on blood sugar levels. There have been reports of both hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and, less frequently, hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
How to manage the interaction:
Although taking N-Flox Tablet and Insulin detemir together can result in an interaction, it can be taken if a doctor has prescribed it. However, consult a doctor, if you experience headaches, dizziness, sleepiness, anxiety, disorientation, tremors, nausea, hunger, weakness, sweat, palpitations, and rapid heartbeat, increased-hunger, thirst, and urine. It is recommended to maintain blood glucose levels. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Coadministration of N-Flox Tablet with Vandetanib can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythm.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking N-Flox 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.
Coadministration of Ivabradine with N-Flox Tablet can increase the risk or severity of irregular heart rhythms.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Ivabradine with N-Flox Tablet 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.
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Cocoa, Coffee, Dark Chocolate, Energy Drinks With Caffeine, Green Tea, Kola Nut, Tea, Tiramisu, Orange Juice
How to manage the interaction:
Consuming dairy products, cereal, or orange juice with N-Flox Tablet can interfere with its absorption and reduce its levels in the blood and urinary tract. Using caffeine together with N-Flox Tablet may increase the effects of caffeine. N-Flox Tablet dose should be taken at least one hour before or two hours after consuming dairy products, cereal, or orange juice. Avoid taking caffeine with N-Flox Tablet. Contact a doctor if you experience headaches, tremors, restlessness, nervousness, insomnia, and increased blood pressure or heart rate.
Diet & Lifestyle Advise
- Antibiotics can alter the beneficial bacteria in the stomach, which help in digestion. Therefore, you are advised to take foods rich in probiotics, such as yoghurt/curd, kefir, sauerkraut, tempeh, kimchi, miso, kombucha, buttermilk, natto and cheese.
- Eat fiber-rich food like whole grains, beans, lentils, berries, broccoli, peas, and bananas.
- Avoid foods rich in calcium, such as dairy products and grapefruit and grapefruit juice, as they may hinder the absorption of antibiotics.
- Avoid consumption of alcohol and usage of tobacco.
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Alcohol
Safe if prescribed
Avoid consuming alcohol while taking N-Flox Tablet , as it may cause increased dizziness.
Pregnancy
Consult your doctor
N-Flox Tablet belongs to pregnancy category C. Please consult your doctor if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. Your doctor will prescribe N-Flox Tablet only if the benefits outweigh the risks.
Breast Feeding
Consult your doctor
It is unknown if N-Flox Tablet passes into breastmilk. Consult your doctor if you are breastfeeding before taking N-Flox Tablet .
Driving
Safe if prescribed
N-Flox Tablet may cause dizziness and light-headedness. So, drive only if you are alert.
Liver
Consult your doctor
Dose adjustment may be needed. Please consult your doctor if you have liver impairment/liver disease.
Kidney
Consult your doctor
Dose adjustment may be needed. Please consult your doctor if you have kidney impairment/kidney disease.
Children
Safe if prescribed
N-Flox Tablet is not recommended for children below 18 years, as its safety and effectiveness have not been established in this age group.
Heart
N-Flox Tablet should be taken with caution in patients with heart problems. Please inform your doctor if you have any pre-existing heart problems before using N-Flox Tablet .
Geriatrics
Consult your doctor
N-Flox Tablet should be given with caution in elderly patients due to an increased risk of side effects. Seek medical advice if you have any concerns.
FAQs
N-Flox Tablet is used to treat bacterial infections caused by susceptible bacteria. It is indicated in the treatment of urinary tract infections‚ prostatitis (prostate inflammation), and gonorrhoea (a sexually transmitted disease). Additionally, N-Flox Tablet is used to treat infections of the stomach and intestine, such as traveller's diarrhoea.
N-Flox Tablet contains Norfloxacin, which works by inhibiting the synthesis of an enzyme called DNA gyrase. Thereby, it kills the bacteria and treats bacterial infections.
N-Flox Tablet may cause photosensitivity (sensitivity to sunlight) and increase your risk of sunburn. Avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight or tanning beds. Always wear protective clothing and sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher before going outdoors.
It is recommended to complete the course of N-Flox Tablet , even if you feel better, as it is an antibiotic, and leaving it incomplete may lead to a more severe infection. To treat your condition effectually, continue taking N-Flox Tablet for as long as your doctor has prescribed it.
Avoid consuming dairy products, such as milk and yoghurt, along with N-Flox Tablet , as they may decrease the effectiveness of N-Flox Tablet .
Do not take N-Flox Tablet on your own, as self-medication may lead to antibiotic resistance, in which antibiotics fail to act against specific bacterial infections.
Maintain a minimum gap of two hours between N-Flox Tablet and antacids, anti-ulcer medications (such as sucralfate), anti-HIV medications (like didanosine), and vitamin and mineral supplements. However, consult your doctor before taking other medicines with N-Flox Tablet .
Consult your doctor before taking N-Flox Tablet if you have diabetes, as N-Flox Tablet may cause hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar levels). Regularly monitor blood sugar levels while taking N-Flox Tablet to avoid hypoglycaemic events.
N-Flox Tablet may cause changes in liver function tests and prothrombin time (time taken for blood clotting). Inform the person doing the tests that you are taking N-Flox Tablet .
If you start feeling better, do not stop taking the medicine on your own. Instead, please inform your doctor about your progress and follow their advice. Completing the entire course of therapy is crucial to ensure the infection is fully treated and does not return. Your doctor will guide you on the next steps, so be sure to check in with them.
Common side effects of N-Flox Tablet may include abdominal cramps, nausea, headache, and dizziness. Most of these side effects do not require medical attention and will resolve gradually. However, you are advised to talk to your doctor if the side effects persist or worsen.
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