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About Zovirax Suspension
Zovirax Suspension is used to treat viral infections. It plays a vital role in treating cold sores (an inflamed blister in or near the mouth), genital herpes (a common sexually transmitted infection), herpes zoster (a viral infection that causes a painful rash) and chickenpox.
Zovirax Suspension contains Aciclovir, which is an antiviral medication. It prevents the multiplication of viruses in human cells by acting on their DNA, resulting in decreased viral overload.
In some cases, you may experience headaches, feeling dizzy, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, and skin sensitivity to sunlight. Most of these side effects do not require medical attention and resolve over time. However, if the side effects are persistent, reach out to your doctor.
Do not take Zovirax Suspension if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Check with your doctor if you're pregnant, currently breastfeeding, or taking any other prescribed or non-prescribed medicines.
Uses of Zovirax Suspension
Zovirax Suspension is used in the treatment of viral infections. The detailed uses of Zovirax Suspension are as follows:
- Genital Herpes: Zovirax Suspension treats painful sores and reduces recurrence.
- Cold Sores (Herpes Labialis): Zovirax Suspension speeds healing of blisters around lips and mouth.
- Shingles (Herpes Zoster): Zovirax Suspension eases pain and shortens the duration of the rash.
- Chickenpox (Varicella): Zovirax Suspension is used to treat chickenpox, especially in adults or immunocompromised patients.
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Directions for Use
- Take Zovirax Suspension with or without food as advised by your doctor.
- Follow your doctor's instructions regarding the dosage and duration.
- Swallow it as a whole with water.
- Do not crush, break or chew it.
Key Benefits
- Zovirax Suspension contains Aciclovir, which helps manage infections caused by herpes viruses, including cold sores, genital herpes, and shingles.
- Aciclovir works by stopping the virus from multiplying inside human cells, thereby controlling the spread of infection.
- It helps lessen pain, itching, burning, and irritation associated with viral skin or mucous membrane infections.
- By limiting viral growth, Zovirax Suspension supports quicker recovery of blisters, sores, or lesions caused by herpes infections.
- It can reduce the frequency and severity of future herpes outbreaks.
- Zovirax Suspension lowers the amount of virus in the body, reducing the risk of transmission and easing the burden on the immune system.
How Zovirax Suspension Works
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- Report to Your Doctor: Inform your doctor about the muscle pain, as they may need to adjust your medication.
- Stretch Regularly: Gentle stretching can help relieve muscle pain and stiffness.
- Stay Hydrated: Adequate water intake supports muscle health by removing harmful substances and maintaining proper muscle function.
- Warm or Cold Compresses: Apply cold or warm compresses to the affected area to reduce pain and inflammation.
- Rest and Relaxation: Adequate rest helps alleviate muscle strain, while relaxation techniques like deep breathing and meditation can soothe muscle tightness, calm the mind, and promote relief from discomfort.
- Gentle Exercise: Participate in low-impact activities, such as yoga or short walks, to improve flexibility, reduce muscle tension, and alleviate discomfort.
- Consult a physician: If your symptoms don't improve or get worse, go to the doctor for help and guidance.
- Increased creatinine levels must be corrected immediately with the help of a doctor.
- Reduce strenuous activities that can lead to muscle breakdown and production of creatinine.
- Sleep for 7-8 hours per night to assist your body in repairing and rebuilding tissue.
- Manage your blood pressure by implementing changes in lifestyle like losing weight, reducing stress and exercising regularly.
- Avoid smoking and drinking alcohol.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If you experience or encounter any severe allergic reaction, stop using medication and consult the doctor right away.
- Tell your doctor about the allergic reaction, including the medication taken and any symptoms experienced.
- Your doctor will evaluate the severity of the reaction and determine the best course of action.
- To ensure a full recovery, follow your doctor's advice, attend scheduled follow-up appointments, and undergo recommended tests to monitor progress and adjust treatment as needed.
- If you experience angioedema, inform your doctor immediately. Treatment can help keep the swelling under control.
- Seek medical attention if symptoms are severe, such as difficulty breathing or swallowing.
- Follow your doctor's instructions to manage symptoms, which may include stopping or adjusting the medication that triggered angioedema.
- Your doctor may also recommend antihistamines, steroids, or other treatments to reduce swelling and inflammation.
- Make dietary and lifestyle changes as recommended, such as avoiding trigger foods or reducing stress.
- Monitor your condition closely and track your symptoms to report them to your doctor.
- Consult your doctor again if symptoms worsen or do not improve or if you experience any new or concerning symptoms.
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Drug Warnings
- Do not take Zovirax Suspension if you are allergic to Zovirax Suspension or any of its ingredients.
- Let your doctor know if you are 65 years of age or have kidney disease or a kidney transplant, a heart problem or a history of heart problems, have HIV/AIDS, are pregnant, or plan to become pregnant.
- Zovirax Suspension may cause dizziness, lightheadedness, and fainting when you get up too quickly from a lying position, especially when you start taking Zovirax Suspension , so please get up gradually.
- Do not drive a car or operate any machinery which requires concentration, as Zovirax Suspension may cause dizziness.
- Please do not take Zovirax Suspension if you have ever developed a rash due to fever.
- If you have a weak immune system, please inform your doctor before taking Zovirax Suspension , as a dose adjustment may be required.
- Inform your doctor about all other OTC medications, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbal products you are taking or plan to take.
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Co-administration of Cidofovir with Acyclovir can increase the risk of kidney problems.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Cidofovir is not recommended, please consult your doctor before taking it. You should consult a doctor if you experience vomiting, irregular urination, sudden weight gain or loss, swelling, shortness of breath, muscle cramps, weakness, and palpitations. Do not stop using any medications without talking to a doctor.
Coadministration of Iodamide contrast with Zovirax Suspension 100 ml may increase the risk or severity of kidney injury.
How to manage the interaction:
Before undergoing any imaging procedure let your doctor know you are on Zovirax Suspension 100 ml treatment.
Co-administration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with tacrolimus may increase the risk or severity of kidney problems.
How to manage the interaction:
Coadministration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Tacrolimus can result in an interaction, it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. Contact a doctor immediately if you experience signs such as decreased or increased urine output, sudden weight gain or loss, swelling, or shortness of breath. Do not discontinue any medications without first consulting a doctor.
Coadministration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Tenofovir Disoproxil may increase the risk or severity of kidney disorder.
How to manage the interaction:
Coadministration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Tenofovir disoproxil can result in an interaction, it can be taken when your doctor has advised it. Contact a doctor immediately if you experience decreased or increased urine output, sudden weight gain or loss, swelling, or shortness of breath. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Coadministration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Everolimus may increase the risk or severity of kidney injury.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Everolimus together can result in an interaction, it can be taken if a doctor has advised it. Contact a doctor immediately if you experience vomiting, irregular urination, sudden weight gain or loss, swelling, breathing difficulty, muscle pains, dizziness, or palpitations. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Coadministration of Metrizamide in contrast with Zovirax Suspension 100 ml may increase the risk or severity of kidney disorder.
How to manage the interaction:
Before undergoing any imaging procedure, let your doctor know you are on Zovirax Suspension 100 ml treatment. Look out for signs such as vomiting, increased or decreased urination, sudden weight gain or loss, swelling, shortness of breath, muscle cramps, or weakness. Consult the doctor immediately.
Coadministration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Tenofovir alafenamide may increase the risk or severity of kidney injury.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with tenofovir alafenamide can result in an interaction. However, if the benefits outweigh the risks, your doctor will prescribe them. Contact a doctor immediately if you experience symptoms such as decreased or increased urine output, sudden weight gain or loss, swelling, or shortness of breath. Do not discontinue any medication without consulting your doctor.
Concomitant use of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Tizanidine can increase the risk of developing low blood pressure.
How to manage the interaction:
Coadministration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Tizanidine can result in an interaction, but it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. Contact a doctor immediately if you experience signs such as dizziness, excessive sweating, or palpitations. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
Coadministration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Sirolimus may increase the risk or severity of kidney injury.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Sirolimus can result in an interaction, it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. However, if you experience vomiting, a decrease in hunger, irregular urine, weight gain or loss, swelling, difficulty breathing, muscle pain, or weakness, consult a doctor.
Coadministration of Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Amphotericin B can increase the risk or severity of kidney disorder.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Zovirax Suspension 100 ml with Amphotericin b together can result in an interaction, it can be taken if a doctor has advised it. Consult a doctor if you experience irregular urination, muscle ache, shortness if breath, or palpitations. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
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Diet & Lifestyle Advise
- Avoid alcoholic beverages with Zovirax Suspension as it can make you dehydrated and may affect your sleep.
- Try to include heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acid-containing foods in your daily diet. You can also use low-fat cooking oil like olive oil, soybean oil, canola oil, and coconut oil.
- Include turmeric or yellow mustard in your diet to avoid constipation caused by antiviral drugs and increase the intake of fluids to stay hydrated.
- Take enough of Vitamin D and fresh air as it is known to improve the symptoms of herpes infection.
- Try to reduce emotional and physical stress by spending time with family or whatever makes you happy.
- Eat a healthy and balanced diet, and make sure you sleep at least 8 hours a day for a speedy recovery.
- If you are going in strong sunlight, please wear a lip balm SPF 15 or higher, and Zovirax Suspension makes you sensitive to UV and sunlight.
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Alcohol
Safe if prescribed
Limit alcohol intake while using Zovirax Suspension to prevent any adverse effects.
Pregnancy
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Zovirax Suspension is a pregnancy Category B medicine. It is not known whether Zovirax Suspension will affect pregnant women or the fetus or not. Hence, the intake of Zovirax Suspension should be only if prescribed and under medical supervision.
Breast Feeding
Consult your doctor
It is not known whether Zovirax Suspension will pass through the milk in breastfeeding women or not. Hence, Zovirax Suspension should only be taken if prescribed by a doctor and under medical supervision.
Driving
Safe if prescribed
Zovirax Suspension can affect alertness and coordination. So, operating machinery which requires concentration should be avoided.
Liver
Consult your doctor
Zovirax Suspension is safe if prescribed by a doctor. It is known not to interact with liver functioning.
Kidney
Consult your doctor
Zovirax Suspension to be taken with caution, especially if you have a history of Kidney diseases/conditions. The dose may have to be adjusted by your doctor.
Children
Safe if prescribed
Zovirax Suspension is safe if prescribed by a child specialist.
Heart
Zovirax Suspension can be used in heart patients if prescribed by the physician.
Geriatrics
Consult your doctor
Zovirax Suspension is known to cause side effects like neurotoxicity and nephrotoxicity in elderly patients. Hence, pleae consult you physician.
FAQs
Zovirax Suspension is used to treat viral infections. It plays a vital role in treating cold sores (an inflamed blister in or near the mouth caused by infection with the herpes simplex virus), genital herpes (a common sexually transmitted infection marked by genital pain and sores), and herpes zoster (a viral infection that causes a painful rash). In addition to this, it is also used to treat chickenpox.
Zovirax Suspension works by preventing the multiplication of viruses in human cells. As a result, this stops the proliferation of viruses and produces new viruses, slowly leading to the viral infection clearing up.
No, Zovirax Suspension should not be taken if you have HIV (Human Immuno Deficiency Syndrome). It can increase the risk of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (blood clot formation in small blood vessels).
No, Zovirax Suspension should be taken in the dose and duration as advised by the doctor. If you take it in more than the recommended dose, it might cause unpleasant side effects. If you think your symptoms are not improving, please consult your doctor.
If you miss a dose of Zovirax Suspension , take the missed dose as soon as you remember it. However, if it's almost time for the next dose, do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one.
No, Zovirax Suspension does not cure herpes infection. Instead, it reduces pain and itching caused due to it and prevents a new sore formation.
Do not stop taking Zovirax Suspension without talking to your doctor. If you suddenly stop taking Zovirax Suspension , you may experience confusion, fever, mental state changes, or severe muscle stiffness. Your doctor will probably decrease your dose gradually depending upon your disease condition.
No, Zovirax Suspension is not known to affect contraception (condoms). Also, to avoid transmission of herpes infection as it is a sexually transmitted disease; please use any form of contraception.
Zovirax Suspension helps treat shingles and suppress its symptoms. It does not cure shingles.
Zovirax Suspension stops the spread of the herpes virus in the body. It may not stop the spread of the infection to other people. Practise safe sex and wash your hands regularly to prevent transmission of infection to others.
Serious side effects of Zovirax Suspension are blood in the urine, chest pain or palpitations, hair loss, kidney problems, low blood pressure, lymph node swelling, seizures, serious skin reactions, and mental health changes such as agitation or aggression, confusion, depression, hallucinations, and psychotic symptoms.
Yes, elderly patients need to be more careful while taking Zovirax Suspension as they might be more sensitive to the side effects of this medicine.
Taking more than the recommended dose of Zovirax Suspension may cause an overdose. The symptoms of overdose include extreme tiredness, seizures (fits), change in the amount of urine, loss of consciousness and agitation. If you suspect you have taken overdose or notice signs of overdose, please consult a doctor immediately.
Common side effects of Zovirax Suspension are headaches, feeling dizzy, feeling or being sick (nausea or vomiting), diarrhoea, rash, and skin sensitivity to sunlight. Most of these side effects of Zovirax Suspension are temporary, do not require medical attention, and gradually resolve over time. However, if the side effects are persistent, reach out to your doctor.
Zovirax Suspension should be used during pregnancy or breastfeeding only if prescribed by the doctor. Please consult the doctor if you are pregnant, planning for pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Alcohol may not interfere with the working of Zovirax Suspension . However, limit alcohol intake while using Zovirax Suspension to prevent any adverse effects.
Patients with impaired immunity or having HIV may get resistant to Zovirax Suspension treatment. Inform the doctor if you have HIV or low immunity.
No, hair loss caused due to Zovirax Suspension is not permanent. It stops on discontinuing the medicine.
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