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Floxigem 320mg Tablet
Floxigem 320mg Tablet is an antibiotic used to treat or prevent certain bacterial infections of nose, throat, urinary tract, lungs (pneumonia), skin, and soft tissues. It contains Gemifloxacin, which kills bacteria and treats the infection. It may cause side effects such as rash, vomiting, headache, dizziness, stomach pain, nausea, and diarrhoea.
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Written By Bayyarapu Mahesh Kumar , M Pharmacy
Reviewed By Dr Aneela Siddabathuni , MPharma., PhD
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Side effects of Floxigem 320mg Tablet
  • Skin rash caused by allergies is due to irritants or allergens. Therefore, avoid contact with such irritants.
  • Consult your doctor for proper medication and apply an anti-itch medication. Follow the schedule and use the medication whenever needed.
  • Protect your skin from extreme heat and try to apply wet compresses.
  • Soak in the cool bath, which gives a soothing impact to the affected area.
Overcome Medication-Induced Nausea: A 9-Step Plan
  • 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.
Here are the precise steps to cope with diarrhoea caused by medication usage:
  • 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.
  • Avoid trigger foods that can cause allergic reactions, such as nuts, shellfish, or dairy products.
  • Keep a food diary to track potential food allergens.
  • Include omega-3 rich foods like salmon and walnuts to reduce inflammation.
  • Wear loose, comfortable clothing made from soft fabrics like cotton.
  • Apply cool compresses or take cool baths to reduce itching.
  • Use gentle soaps and avoid harsh skin products.
  • Reduce stress through relaxation techniques like meditation or deep breathing.
To prevent, manage, and treat Constipation caused by medication usage, follow these steps:
  • Preventing Vomiting (Before it Happens)
  • Take medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. This can help minimize side effects, including vomiting.
  • Having a small meal before taking your medication can help reduce nausea and vomiting.
  • Talk to your doctor about taking anti-nausea medication along with your prescribed medication.
  • Managing Vomiting (If it Happens)
  • Try taking ginger in the form of tea, ale, or candy to help alleviate nausea and vomiting.
  • What to Do if Vomiting Persists
  • Consult your doctor if vomiting continues or worsens, consult the doctor for guidance on adjusting your medication or additional treatment.
  • 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.
Here are the 7 steps to manage Dizziness caused by medication:
  • 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.

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Drug-Drug Interactions

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Drug-Disease Interactions: Floxigem 320mg Tablet is known to interact in patients with kidney or liver disease, heart, or lung transplant, rheumatoid arthritis (a condition in which the body attacks its own joints, causing pain, swelling, and loss of function), seizures, epilepsy, hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, myasthenia gravis (a muscle disorder),  low level of potassium or magnesium in the blood.

Drug-Food Interactions:  Floxigem 320mg Tablet interacts with dairy products (like milk or yoghurt) or calcium-fortified juices alone.

Drug-drug interactions: Floxigem 320mg Tablet is known to interact with a diuretic (furosemide),  insulin or other anti-diabetic medications (chlorpropamide, glimepiride, glipizide, glyburide, tolazamide, tolbutamide), blood thinners (warfarin, coumadin),  pain killers (aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, celecoxib), a steroid medicine (prednisone, methylprednisolone), anti-gout medicine (probenecid).

GemifloxacinZiprasidone
Critical
GemifloxacinFerrous fumarate
Severe

Drug-Drug Interactions

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GemifloxacinZiprasidone
Critical
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Coadministration of Floxigem 320mg Tablet with Ziprasidone can increase the risk of abnormal heart rhythm.

How to manage the interaction:
Taking Ziprasidone with Floxigem 320mg Tablet is not recommended, but it can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. However, consult your doctor if you experience sudden dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting a doctor.
GemifloxacinFerrous fumarate
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Taking ferrous fumarate with Floxigem 320mg Tablet may significantly decreases the levels and effects of Floxigem 320mg Tablet.

How to manage the interaction:
Although taking Ferrous Fumarate and Floxigem 320mg Tablet together can cause an interaction, they can be taken together if prescribed by a doctor. It is recommended to take Floxigem 320mg Tablet 4 hours before or 6 hours after the consumption of ferrous fumarate. Do not stop using any medications without talking to your doctor.
GemifloxacinFludrocortisone
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Combining Fludrocortisone with Floxigem 320mg Tablet can increase the risk of tendinopathy.

How to manage the interaction:
Co-administration of Fludrocortisone with Floxigem 320mg Tablet can possibly result in an interaction, but it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. This risk is higher if you are also taking oral corticosteroids. Contact your doctor immediately if you experience tendinitis (Inflammation to muscle present in hand), tendon rupture, prolonged disability, pain, swelling, or inflammation. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting your doctor.
GemifloxacinInsulin degludec
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Taking insulin degludec with Floxigem 320mg Tablet affects blood glucose levels, which may cause hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose) and hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose) less frequently.

How to manage the interaction:
There could be a possible interaction between insulin degludec and Floxigem 320mg Tablet but can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. However, consult the doctor immediately if you experience hypoglycaemia or hyperglycaemia. Symptoms of hypoglycaemia include headache, dizziness, drowsiness, nervousness, confusion, tremor, nausea, hunger, weakness, sweating, palpitation, and rapid heartbeat. Symptoms of hyperglycaemia may include increased thirst, increased hunger, and increased urination. Do not stop using any medications without first talking to your doctor.
GemifloxacinDeflazacort
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Floxigem 320mg Tablet can cause tendinitis (inflammation of the thick fibrous cords that attach muscle to bone) and tendon rupture (injury to the soft tissue that connect muscle to bone), and the risk may be increased when combined with other drugs such as deflazacort.

How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction, Floxigem 320mg Tablet can be taken with deflazacort if prescribed by the doctor. However, if you experience pain, swelling at the back of the ankle, biceps, shoulder, hand, or thumb, consult a doctor immediately. Avoid exercise or use of the affected area until further instruction from your doctor. Do not stop using any medications without first talking to your doctor.
GemifloxacinInsulin detemir
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Co-administration of Floxigem 320mg 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 Floxigem 320mg Tablet and Insulin detemir together can possibly 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 a doctor's advice.
GemifloxacinInsulin glargine
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Taking insulin glargine with Floxigem 320mg Tablet affects blood glucose levels, which may cause hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) less frequently.

How to manage the interaction:
Although taking Floxigem 320mg Tablet and Insulin glargine together can possibly result in an interaction, it can be taken if your doctor has prescribed it. However, consult the doctor immediately if you experience hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia. Symptoms of hypoglycemia include headache, dizziness, drowsiness, nervousness, confusion, shaking, nausea, hunger, weakness, sweating, palpitation, and rapid heartbeat. Symptoms of hyperglycemia may include increased thirst, increased hunger, and increased urination. Do not stop using any medications without first talking to your doctor.
GemifloxacinEscitalopram
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Combining Floxigem 320mg Tablet with Escitalopram can increase the risk of QTc prolongation.

How to manage the interaction:
Taking Escitalopram with Floxigem 320mg Tablet together can possibly result in an interaction, but it can be taken if your doctor has advised it. If you experience any of these symptoms - dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, palpitations, abnormal heart rhythm, shortness of breath, or severe diarrhea or vomiting - contact your doctor right away. Do not stop using any medications without talking to your doctor.
GemifloxacinBetamethasone
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Taking Floxigem 320mg Tablet may cause tendinitis and tendon rupture, and the risk may be increased when combined with Betamethasone.

How to manage the interaction:
Although there is an interaction, betamethasone can be taken with Floxigem 320mg Tablet if prescribed by the doctor. Consult the prescriber if you experience pain, inflammation, or swelling of a tendon area such as the back of the ankle, biceps, shoulder, hand, or thumb. Do not discontinue the medication without consulting a doctor.
GemifloxacinInsulin aspart
Severe
How does the drug interact with Floxigem 320mg Tablet:
Taking insulin aspart with Floxigem 320mg Tablet affects blood glucose levels. Both hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) and, less frequently, hypoglycemia have been reported.

How to manage the interaction:
There could be a possible interaction between insulin aspart and Floxigem 320mg Tablet but can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. However, consult the doctor immediately if you experience symptoms of hypoglycemia, which include headache, dizziness, drowsiness, nervousness, confusion, shaking, nausea, hunger, weakness, perspiration, palpitation, and rapid heartbeat, or symptoms of hyperglycemia which may include increased thirst, increased hunger, and increased urination. Do not stop using any medications without first talking to your doctor.

Drug-Food Interactions

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No Drug - Food interactions found in our database. Some may be unknown. Consult your doctor for what to avoid during medication.

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