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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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why you are taking them and what benefits / risks you can expect.
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or pharmacist, or in your pack of medicine.
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on this page, contact the pharmaceutical company who makes the medicine or talk
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in Australia only.
Product name
Date released
Axotide Accuhaler & MDI
01 Apr 2020
You may know your Inhaler better as a 'puffer'. Axotide puffers contain a medicine
called fluticasone propionate. This medicine belongs to a group of medicines known
as corticosteroids, frequently called 'steroids'. They are not 'anabolic steroids'
which are the steroids sometimes misused by athletes.
Your Axotide puffer provides a measured amount of steroid for you to breathe into
your lungs. By using your Axotide puffer regularly every day, the medicine reduces
the swelling and irritation in the walls of the small air passages in your lungs.
Your Axotide puffer contains the type of asthma medicine known as a 'preventer'.
It does not give immediate relief from an asthma attack and may take up to a week
to start to work. If your shortness of breath or wheeze does not get better after
7 days, tell your doctor. When used every day, your Axotide puffer helps to ease
breathing problems and prevent asthma attacks.
This medicine is only one part of a general plan to help you manage your asthma.
You should discuss this plan with your doctor. You may also be using a 'reliever puffer'.
Keep using it according to your doctor's advice. Ask your doctor to check your treatment
regularly.
Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why an Axotide puffer has been prescribed
for you.
The medicine in Axotide puffers is not addictive.
Axotide puffers generally do not cause any problems with your ability to drive a car
or operate machinery.
Azacitidine-Teva contains a medicine called azacitidine which prevents the growth
of cancer cells. Azacitidine-Teva has been prescribed by your doctor for the treatment
of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Myelodysplastic syndrome is a blood disorder in
which the bone marrow is not working normally and does not produce enough mature blood
cells.
This causes a lack of healthy blood cells that can function properly in the body.
Ask your doctor if you have any questions about how Azacitidine-Teva works or why
this medicine has been prescribed for you.
Your doctor may have prescribed it for another reason.
Azacitidine-Teva will only be prescribed to you by a doctor who has experience in
medicines to treat cancers of the blood.
AZACTAM is used for the treatment of serious infections caused by bacteria. AZACTAM
may be used in the treatment of infections present in various parts of the body and
sometimes AZACTAM is given with other antibiotics.
Your doctor may have prescribed AZACTAM for another use. Ask your doctor if you have
any questions about why AZACTAM was prescribed for you.
How AZACTAM works
AZACTAM works by killing or preventing the growth of the bacteria that is causing
your infection.
The use of AZACTAM to treat your condition can lead to side-effects, which are discussed
below.
How AZACTAM is used
AZACTAM will be administered as an injection or infusion in a hospital or clinic.
Your doctor or nurse will administer AZACTAM to you. AZACTAM may be used alone or
with other medicines.
AZARGA is used to lower pressure in the eye and to treat glaucoma. Glaucoma is a condition
in which the pressure of fluid in the eye may be high. However, some people with glaucoma
may have normal eye pressure.
Glaucoma is usually caused by a build-up of the fluid which flows through the eye.
This build up occurs because the fluid drains out of your eye more slowly than it
is being pumped in. Since new fluid continues to enter the eye, joining the fluid
already there, the pressure continues to rise. This raised pressure may damage the
back of the eye resulting in gradual loss of sight. Damage can progress so slowly
that the person is not aware of this gradual loss of sight. Sometimes even normal
eye pressure is associated with damage to the back of the eye.
There are usually no symptoms of glaucoma. The only way of knowing that you have glaucoma
is to have your eye pressure, optic nerve and visual field checked by an eye specialist.
If glaucoma is not treated, it can lead to serious problems, including total blindness.
In fact, untreated glaucoma is one of the most common causes of blindness.
AZARGA combines two ingredients, brinzolamide and timolol. Brinzolamide is a carbonic
anhydrase inhibitor and timolol is a beta-blocker. Both brinzolamide and timolol work
by reducing the production of fluid within the eye. Although AZARGA helps control
your glaucoma, it does not cure it.
For more information about glaucoma, contact Glaucoma Australia on 1800 500 880 or
Glaucoma New Zealand on 09 373 8779.
Your doctor may have prescribed AZARGA for another reason. Ask your doctor if you
have any questions about why AZARGA has been prescribed for you.
There is no evidence that AZARGA is addictive.
Use in Children
There is not enough information to recommend the use of this medicine in children
under the age of 18 years.
AZEP NASAL SPRAY is used to relieve runny nose, sneezing, itching or blocked nose
caused by allergies, such as to pollen (hay fever) house dust mites or pet hair.
AZEP NASAL SPRAY belongs to a group of medicines called antihistamines. It works by
blocking the action of histamine and other substances produced by the body, which
are causing your allergies.
Azilect is used to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. It can be taken with
or without dopamine agonist or levodopa therapy.
Parkinson's disease is a condition of the brain that mainly affects body movement.
The three main symptoms of Parkinson's disease are:
Shaking (tremor)
Muscle stiffness
Slow and unsteady movement
In Parkinson's disease, there is a loss of cells producing dopamine in certain areas
in the brain.
Azilect works by increasing and maintaining the level of dopamine in your brain which
will decrease symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why this medicine has been prescribed
for you.
Your doctor may have prescribed it for another reason.
This medicine is available only with a doctor's prescription. It is not addictive.
Azilect should not be given to children under 18 years of age as there is no specific
information about such use. Always ask your doctor before giving medicines to children.
AZITH is an antibiotic which contains azithromycin as the active ingredient. Azithromycin
belongs to a group of medicines called azalides which are a sub-class of a group of
antibiotics called macrolides.
AZITH is used to treat pneumonia, a lung infection caused by certain bacteria such
as Legionella pneumophila.
AZITH works by killing or stopping the growth of bacteria causing the infection.
It will not work against viral infections such as colds or flu.
Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why AZITH has been prescribed for
you.
Your doctor may have prescribed it for another purpose.
This medicine is available only with a doctor's prescription.
There is no evidence that it is addictive.
This medicine is not expected to affect your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
AZITHROMYCIN ALPHAPHARM is used to treat Pneumonia, a lung infection caused by certain
bacteria including Legionella pneumophila.
This medicine is an antibiotic, which belongs to a group of medicines called azalides.
The azalides are a sub-class of a group of antibiotics called macrolides.
This medicine works by killing or stopping the growth of bacteria causing your infection.
AZITHROMYCIN ALPHAPHARM will not work against viral infections such as colds or flu.
Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why AZITHROMYCIN ALPHAPHARM has been
prescribed for you. Your doctor may have prescribed AZITHROMYCIN ALPHAPHARM for another
reason.
This medicine is not addictive.
This medicine is available only with a doctor's prescription.
This medicine is not expected to affect your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
