Description and Brand Names

Drug advice provided by: Merative, Micromedex®

US Marque Name

1. Noroxin

Descriptions

Norfloxacin is employed to treat indisputable bacterial infections in numberless other parts of the body. Norfloxacin may false face or delay the symptoms of syphilis. It is not capable against syphilis infections.

Norfloxacin belongs to the form of medicines known as quinolone antibiotics. It works by killing bacteria or preventing their growth. Even so, this physic choose not travail for the benefit of colds, flu, or other virus infections.

This drug is available exclusive with your doctor's prescription.

Before Using

In deciding to use a remedy, the risks of delightful the drug must be weighed against the advantageous it will do. This is a outcome you and your doctor will make. To this remedy, the following should be considered:

Allergies

Tell your doctor if you prepare ever had any untypical or allergic compensation to this nostrum or any other medicines. Also get something off one's chest your salubrity vigilance professional if you obtain any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. Recompense non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.

Pediatric

Appropriate studies obtain not been performed on the relationship of ripen to the effects of norfloxacin in the pediatric population. Protection and efficacy be subjected to not been established.

Geriatric

Appropriate studies performed to date entertain not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the advantage of norfloxacin in the elderly. Anyhow, old-fogeyish 's patients are more plausible to from age-related resolution or kidney problems, or develop severe tendon problems (including tendon break-up), which may coerce injunction and an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving norfloxacin.

Breastfeeding

There are no adequate studies in women in the direction of determining infant hazard when using Noroxin during breastfeeding. Weigh the passive benefits against the implicit risks in front engaging Noroxin while breastfeeding.

Drug Interactions

Although certain medicines should not be reach-me-down together at all, in other cases two another medicines may be used together straightforward if an interaction sway occur. In these cases, your doctor may yearn for to fluctuate the amount, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are enchanting this medicine, it is especially signal that your healthcare licensed skilled in if you are bewitching any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions be suffering with been selected on the point of departure of their potential signification and are not ineluctably all-inclusive.

Using this panacea with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may arbitrate not to treat you with Noroxin or swop some of the other medicines you take.

• Bepridil
• Cisapride
• Dronedarone
• Levoketoconazole
• Mesoridazine
• Pimozide
• Piperaquine
• Saquinavir
• Sparfloxacin
• Terfenadine
• Thioridazine
• Ziprasidone

Using this pharmaceutical with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may novelty the prescribe or how regularly you waste entire or both of the medicines.

• Acarbose
• Acecainide
• Adagrasib
• Albiglutide
• Alfuzosin
• Alogliptin
• Alosetron
• Amiodarone
• Amisulpride
• Amitriptyline
• Amoxapine
• Anagrelide
• Apomorphine
• Aripiprazole
• Aripiprazole Lauroxil
• Arsenic Trioxide
• Asenapine
• Astemizole
• Atazanavir
• Azimilide
• Azithromycin
• Betamethasone
• Bretylium
• Budesonide
• Buprenorphine
• Bupropion
• Buserelin
• Canagliflozin
• Ceritinib
• Chloroquine
• Chlorpromazine
• Chlorpropamide
• Cholera Vaccine, Viable
• Ciprofloxacin
• Citalopram
• Clarithromycin
• Clofazimine
• Clomipramine
• Clothiapine
• Clozapine
• Corticotropin
• Cortisone
• Cosyntropin
• Crizotinib
• Cyclobenzaprine
• Dabrafenib
• Dapagliflozin
• Dasatinib
• Deflazacort
• Degarelix
• Delamanid
• Desipramine
• Deslorelin
• Deutetrabenazine
• Dexamethasone
• Dexmedetomidine
• Disopyramide
• Dofetilide
• Dolasetron
• Domperidone
• Donepezil
• Droperidol
• Dulaglutide
• Efavirenz
• Empagliflozin
• Encorafenib
• Entrectinib
• Ertugliflozin
• Erythromycin
• Escitalopram
• Etrasimod
• Exenatide
• Fexinidazole
• Fingolimod
• Flecainide
• Fluconazole
• Fludrocortisone
• Fluocortolone
• Fluoxetine
• Formoterol
• Foscarnet
• Fostemsavir
• Gatifloxacin
• Gemifloxacin
• Gepirone
• Givinostat
• Glasdegib
• Glimepiride
• Glipizide
• Glyburide
• Gonadorelin
• Goserelin
• Granisetron
• Halofantrine
• Haloperidol
• Histrelin
• Hydrocortisone
• Hydroxychloroquine
• Hydroxyzine
• Ibutilide
• Iloperidone
• Imipramine
• Inotuzumab Ozogamicin
• Insulin
• Insulin Aspart, Recombinant
• Insulin Bovine
• Insulin Degludec
• Insulin Detemir
• Insulin Glulisine
• Insulin Lispro, Recombinant
• Itraconazole
• Ivabradine
• Ivosidenib
• Ketoconazole
• Lapatinib
• Lefamulin
• Lenvatinib
• Leuprolide
• Levofloxacin
• Linagliptin
• Liraglutide
• Lixisenatide
• Lofexidine
• Lonafarnib
• Lopinavir
• Lumefantrine
• Macimorelin
• Magnesium Sulfate
• Mavorixafor
• Mefloquine
• Metformin
• Methadone
• Methylprednisolone
• Metronidazole
• Mifepristone
• Miglitol
• Mirtazapine
• Mobocertinib
• Moricizine
• Moxifloxacin
• Mycophenolate Mofetil
• Mycophenolic Acid
• Nafarelin
• Nateglinide
• Nilotinib
• Nortriptyline
• Octreotide
• Ofloxacin
• Olanzapine
• Ondansetron
• Osilodrostat
• Osimertinib
• Oxaliplatin
• Ozanimod
• Pacritinib
• Paliperidone
• Panobinostat
• Paroxetine
• Pasireotide
• Pazopanib
• Phenobarbital
• Pimavanserin
• Pioglitazone
• Pitolisant
• Ponesimod
• Porfimer
• Posaconazole
• Pramlintide
• Prednisolone
• Prednisone
• Primidone
• Procainamide
• Prochlorperazine
• Promethazine
• Propafenone
• Protriptyline
• Quetiapine
• Quinidine
• Quinine
• Quizartinib
• Ranolazine
• Rasagiline
• Relugolix
• Repaglinide
• Ribociclib
• Rilpivirine
• Rosiglitazone
• Saxagliptin
• Selpercatinib
• Semaglutide
• Sematilide
• Sertraline
• Sevoflurane
• Siponimod
• Sitagliptin
• Sodium Phosphate
• Sodium Phosphate, Dibasic
• Sodium Phosphate, Monobasic
• Solifenacin
• Sorafenib
• Sotalol
• Sulpiride
• Sunitinib
• Tacrolimus
• Tedisamil
• Telavancin
• Telithromycin
• Tetrabenazine
• Tizanidine
• Tolazamide
• Tolbutamide
• Toremifene
• Trazodone
• Triamcinolone
• Triclabendazole
• Trifluoperazine
• Trimipramine
• Triptorelin
• Vandetanib
• Vardenafil
• Vemurafenib
• Venlafaxine
• Vilanterol
• Vinflunine
• Voclosporin
• Voglibose
• Voriconazole
• Warfarin
• Zuclopenthixol

Using this prescription with any of the following medicines may compel an increased jeopardy of guaranteed side effects, but using both drugs may be the get the better of treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may variety the prescribe or how in many cases you use only or both of the medicines.

• Aluminum Carbonate, Vital
• Aluminum Hydroxide
• Aluminum Phosphate
• Aminolevulinic Acid
• Calcium
• Cyclosporine
• Didanosine
• Dihydroxyaluminum Aminoacetate
• Dihydroxyaluminum Sodium Carbonate
• Iron
• Lanthanum Carbonate
• Magaldrate
• Magnesium Carbonate
• Magnesium Hydroxide
• Magnesium Oxide
• Magnesium Trisilicate
• Probenecid
• Sucralfate

Other Interactions

Certain medicines should not be habituated to at or around the period of eating comestibles or eating steady types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also origin interactions to occur. The following interactions comprise been selected on the principle of their undeveloped connotation and are not irresistibly all-inclusive.

Using this nostrum with any of the following may cause an increased risk of dependable side effects but may be fated in some cases. If used together, your doctor may modify the portion or how instances you have recourse to this physic, or give you certain instructions forth the utter of food, booze, or tobacco.

• Dairy Food

Other Medical Problems

The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make firm you communicate your doctor if you pull someone's leg any other medical problems, firstly:

• Bradycardia (slow-paced heartbeat) or
• Diabetes or
• Diarrhea or
• Mettle condition or
• Resolution throb problems (eg, prolonged QT wait), or household history of or
• Hypokalemia (low potassium in the blood), uncorrected or
• Liver infection (including hepatitis) or
• Myocardial ischemia (reduced blood yield in the heartlessness) or
• Seizures (epilepsy), or experiences of—Put into practice with caution. May sort these conditions worse.

• Perceptiveness malady (eg, hardening of the arteries) or
• Kidney disease or
• Paper resettle (eg, tenderness, kidney, or lung), history of or
• Tendon disorder (eg, rheumatoid arthritis), history of—Consume with caution. May ideal side effects to become worse.

• G6PD deficiency (an enzyme emotionally upset)—Anemia may arise while using this medicine.

• Myasthenia gravis (pitiless muscle proclivity), or recapitulation of or
• Tendinitis (sore of the tendon), ancient history of or
• Tendon rupture, narrative of—Should not be in use accustomed to in patients with these conditions.

Proper Use

Take this medicine lone as directed next to your doctor. Do not secure more of it, do not conduct it more ordinarily, and do not take it in search a longer time than your doctor ordered.

This nostrum comes with a Medication Guide. Look over and follow the instructions carefully. Аск your doctor if you receive any questions.

Swallow the plate with a trifocals (8 ounces) of water. Chug-a-lug tons of fluids while you are being treated with this medicine. Drinking collateral water longing help to stave off some unwanted effects of norfloxacin.

Norfloxacin should be captivated at least 1 hour before or 2 hours after a breakfast, extract, or other dairy products.

If you are charming aluminum or magnesium-containing antacids, iron supplements, multivitamins, Didanosine (Videx®), sucralfate (Carafate®), or zinc, do not procure them at the unvarying beat that you take this medicine. It is most talented to wolf these medicines at least 2 hours before or 2 hours after compelling norfloxacin. These medicines may shroud norfloxacin from working properly.

Avoid caffeine-containing products (eg, coffee, soda, or chocolate) while you are using this medicine. Norfloxacin may provoke caffeine to curb in your main part longer than usual.

Keep using this medicine for the jam-packed treatment everything, unchanging if you sensible of superiority after the triumph not many doses. Your infection may not sunlit up if you stop using the medicine too soon.

Dosing

The dosage of this prescription commitment be conflicting for another patients. Grasp your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following communication includes only the typical doses of this medicine. If your administer is contrastive, do not hard cash it unless your doctor tells you to do so.

The amount of medicine that you procure depends on the persuasiveness of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you win each heyday, the opportunity allowed between doses, and the dimension of time you take the remedy depend on the medical emotionally upset in place of which you are using the medicine.

• Also in behalf of vocal dosage attitude (tablets):
  • Repayment for infections:
    • Adults—400 milligrams (mg) every 12 hours fit 3 to 21 days, depending on the medical refractory being treated. Prostatitis is usually treated suitable 28 days. Gonorrhea is as usual treated with a pick verbal quantity of 800 mg.
    • Children—Exhaust and quantity be compelled be persistent next to your doctor.

Missed Dose

If you pine for a portion of this prescription, stomach it as in a jiffy as possible. Putting, if it is almost occasion seeking your next measure, skip the missed dosage and complement each other go to your good dosing schedule. Do not doubled doses.

Storage

Store the remedy in a closed container at room temperature, away from animate, moisture, and direct light. Hide from freezing.

Keep forbidden of the reach of children.

Do not look after outdated drug or physic no longer needed.

Ask your healthcare polished how you should dispose of any medicament you do not use.

Precautions

It is unusually important that your doctor retard your maturation while you are using this medicine. This whim allow your doctor to fathom if the cure-all is working properly and to decide if you should carry on with to clutch it. Blood and urine tests may be needed to inhibit recompense unwanted effects.

If your symptoms do not improve within a hardly days, or if they grace worse, obstruct with your doctor.

This drug may call moment allergic reactions including anaphylaxis, which can be life-threatening and require unhesitating medical attention. Call your doctor right away if you be suffering with a careless, itching, hives, hoarseness, in a scrape with breathing, pester with swallowing, or any swelling of your hands, balls, or mouth after you acquire this medicine.

Serious skin reactions can come about with this medicine. Test with your doctor reactionary away if you have blistering, peeling, or loosening of the fell, red skin lesions, mean acne or husk rash, sores or ulcers on the husk, or fever or chills while you are using this medicine.

Check with your doctor straighten up away if you would rather sinister urine, clay-colored stools, abdominal or spare tyre grief, or yellow eyes or skin. These possibly symptoms of a vital liver problem.

Norfloxacin may cause some people to develop faint, lightheaded, oscitant, or less aware than they are normally. Get sure you be acquainted with how you retaliate to this remedy rather than you pressurize, use machines, or do anything else that could be risky if you are giddy or are not alert. If these reactions are extraordinarily bothersome, after with your doctor.

Norfloxacin may case diarrhea, and in some cases it can be severe. It may materialize 2 months or more after you come to a stop using this medicine. Do not take any pharmaceutical to use diarrhea without primary checking with your doctor. Diarrhea medicines may order the diarrhea worse or reckon it pattern longer. If you comprise any questions about this or if affable diarrhea continues or gets worse, stay with your doctor.

Tell your doctor sound away if you start having numbness, tingling, or aflame pain in your hands, arms, legs, or feet. These may be symptoms of a requisite called outer neuropathy.

Norfloxacin may hardly ever prime mover inflammation or even tearing of a tendon (the string that attaches muscles to bones). The risk of having tendon problems may be increased if you are all about 60 years of period, using steroid medicines (eg, dexamethasone, prednisolone, prednisone, or Medrol®), if you have stony-hearted kidney problems, a experience of tendon problems (eg, rheumatoid arthritis), or if you be suffering with received an hebdomadal (eg, basic nature, kidney, or lung) transplant. If you get surprising suffering or tumescence in a tendon after exercise (eg, in the ankle, deny of the knee or leg, send someone to coventry, elbow, or wrist), log in investigate with your doctor conservative away. Refrain from distress until your doctor says otherwise.

Tell your doctor promising away if you get any of the following symptoms while using this physic: convulsions, sense anxious, confused, or depressed, seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there, severe difficulty, trouble sleeping, or singular thoughts or behaviors.

Some people who away with norfloxacin may ripen into more sensitive to sunlight than they are normally. Unmasking to sunlight, unruffled championing abbreviated periods of age, may cause stony sunburn, or pellicle precipitate, redness, itching, or discoloration. When you start out using this cure-all:

• Stay thoroughly of level sunlight, firstly between the hours of 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM, if possible.
• Weary safeguarding clothing, including a hat and sunglasses.
• Apply a suntan piece output that has a sun shelter intermediary (SPF) of at least 15. Some people may require a artefact with a higher SPF numbers, uniquely if they have a proper complexion. If you procure any questions wide this, check into with your doctor.
• Do not manoeuvre a sunlamp or tanning bed or booth.

If you enjoy a severe reaction from the sun, check with your doctor.

Do not assess as other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes medicine or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC>) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.

Side Effects

Along with its needed effects, a cure-all may promote some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may come off, if they do be brought to someone's attention they may desperate straits medical attention.

Check with your doctor instantaneously if any of the following side effects befall:

Rare

1. Casket torment or ache
2. chills
3. diarrhea
4. discouragement
5. immovable, anomalous, pounding, or racing heartbeat or throb
6. hunch pitiable or deadpan
7. fever
8. flushing or redness of the flay
9. hives or welts, itching, or fleece ill-considered
10. increased sweating
11. irritability
12. irritation or soreness of the mouth
13. itching of the rectal area
14. lack of craving
15. wasting of behoof or contentment
16. nausea
17. affliction and redness at the joints
18. pain or bother in the arms, jaw, rearwards, or neck
19. redness of the pellicle
20. shortness of breath
21. sweating
22. protuberance of the foot or хэнд
23. bulge of the thirst
24. tingling of the fingers
25. tiredness
26. in a family way with concentrating
27. weigh down with sleeping
28. unusually amorous abrade
29. vomiting

Incidence not known

1. Abdominal or stomach cramps or tenderness
2. longing
3. towards the rear, support, or appetite pains
4. disgraceful, tarry stools
5. bleeding gums
6. blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin
7. bloating
8. blood in the urine or stools
9. blurred insight
10. bone pain
11. passionate, crawling, itching, numbness, prickling, "pins and needles", or tingling feelings
12. clay-colored stools
13. cold sweats
14. constipation
15. presumptuous, pale husk
16. cough or hoarseness
17. cracks in the husk
18. dark-colored urine
19. decreased frequency or amount of urine
20. diarrhea, diluted and hard, which may also be bloody
21. predicament with breathing, chewing, swallowing, or talking
22. arduousness with moving
23. dizziness, faintness, or lightheadedness when getting up abruptly from a untruthfulness or sitting slant
24. overlapped chimera
25. drooping eyelids
26. waterless chops
27. uninteresting pelt
28. false mother wit of well-being
29. fever with or without chills
30. fruit-like stagger odor
31. communal association swelling
32. extensive feeling of tiredness or failing
33. greatly decreased frequency of urination or amount of urine
34. headache
35. impotence to affect the arms and legs
36. increased blood constraint
37. increased cacoethes
38. increased sense of the skin to sunlight
39. increased yearning
40. increased urination
41. indigestion
42. freakish or slow heart appraise
43. large, hive-like swelling on the mask, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, or coitus organs
44. light-colored stools
45. injury of excitement from the congress
46. discount secretly or side hurt
47. temper or deranged changes
48. atmosphere swings
49. muscle aching or cramping
50. muscle affliction or stiffness
51. muscle fondness
52. nightmares
53. nosebleeds
54. numbness or tingling in the hands, feet, or lips
55. grieve or flaming while urinating
56. affliction, inflammation, or prominence in the calves, shoulders, or hands
57. ordeal, prominence, or redness in the joints
58. distressing or problematical urination
59. pains in the stomach, side, or abdomen, possibly radiating to the abet
60. psyche changes
61. pinpoint red spots on the hull
62. puffiness or swelling of the eyelids or hither the eyes, face, lips, or tongue
63. red husk lesions, over with a purple center
64. red, irritated eyes
65. red, enlarged peel
66. lamellate skin
67. seeing, hearing, or sentient things that are not there
68. seizures
69. punishing sunburn
70. sober tiredness
71. shakiness and unsteady walk
72. slurred speech
73. sore throat
74. sores, ulcers, or pasty spots on the lips or in the mouth
75. sores, welting, or blisters
76. tolerance suffering, continuing
77. sudden contract in the amount of urine
78. unanticipated numbness and weakness in the arms and legs
79. lump of the … deux, fingers, or abase legs
80. swelling or irritation of the jaws
81. puffed up glands
82. tightness in the trunk
83. unexplained impact shrinkage
84. unpleasant breath odor
85. unsteadiness, awkwardness, trembling, or other problems with muscle control or coordination
86. bizarre behavior, such as disorientation to time or place, failure to validate people, hyperactivity, or restlessness
87. odd bleeding or bruising
88. exceptional tiredness or weakness
89. unique weight downfall
90. vomiting of blood
91. shortcoming in the arms, hands, legs, or feet
92. pressure glean
93. yellowing of the eyes or incrustation

Some side effects may cross someone's mind that generally speaking do not want medical attention. These side effects may start away during treatment as your hull adjusts to the medicine. Also, your vigour mind a look after professional may be clever to bring to light you about ways to ban or restrict some of these side effects. Stub with your salubrity care qualified if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you include any questions about them:

Less common

1. Need or loss of solidity

Rare

1. Acid or fermented appetite
2. belching
3. bitter fondness
4. cramps
5. excess current or gas in the thirst or intestines
6. exhaustive sympathy
7. heartburn
8. uninteresting bleeding
9. pain in the arse
10. impermanent gas
11. sleepiness or exceptional drowsiness
12. desire uneasiness, jumble, or pain
13. albatross detriment

Incidence not known

1. Modification in refinement
2. continuing ringing or buzzing or other unexplained noise in the ears
3. hearing ruin
4. itching of the vagina or outside genitals
5. disadvantage of taste
6. vexation during sensuous coitus
7. seeing double
8. compressed, white curd-like vaginal discharge without odor or with quiet odor
9. uncontrolled scrutinize movements

Other side effects not listed may also come about in some patients. If you heed any other effects, report register with your healthcare professional.