Biaxin side effects by duration, gender and age - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Side effects are reported by people who take Biaxin. Common side effects include drug hypersensitivity among females and abdominal pain among males.
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12,580 people who take Biaxin and have side effects are studied.
What is Biaxin?
Biaxin has active ingredients of clarithromycin. It is often used in sinusitis. eHealthMe is studying from 13,212 Biaxin users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
Number of Biaxin reports submitted per year:

Biaxin side effects by time on the drug *:
Biaxin side effects by gender *:
Biaxin side effects by age *:
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
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How the study uses the data?
The study is based on clarithromycin (the active ingredients of Biaxin) and Biaxin (the brand name). Other drugs that have the same active ingredients (e.g. generic drugs) are not considered.
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Alternative drugs to, pros and cons of Biaxin:
- Biaxin (13,212 reports)
Common Biaxin side effects:
- Abdominal discomfort: 256 reports
- Abdominal distension: 138 reports
- Abdominal pain: 317 reports
- Abdominal pain upper: 427 reports
- Acute kidney failure: 234 reports
- Agitation (state of anxiety or nervous excitement): 212 reports
- Agranulocytosis (a deficiency of granulocytes in the blood, causing increased vulnerability to infection): 157 reports
- Alanine aminotransferase increased: 155 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 442 reports
- Anaphylaxis (serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and may cause death): 117 reports
- Anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable): 139 reports
- Anorexia (eating disorder characterized by immoderate food restriction and irrational fear of gaining weight): 168 reports
- Appetite - decreased (decreased appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat): 228 reports
- Arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat): 298 reports
- Arthritis (form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints): 119 reports
- Aseptic necrosis (the death of bone tissue due to a lack of blood supply): 130 reports
- Aspartate aminotransferase increased: 148 reports
- Asthma: 314 reports
- Atelectasis (partial or complete collapse of the lung): 119 reports
- Atrial fibrillation/flutter (atrial fibrillation and flutter are abnormal heart rhythms in which the atria, or upper chambers of the heart, are out of sync with the ventricles): 168 reports
- Back pain: 495 reports
- Balance disorder: 115 reports
- Blood creatine phosphokinase increased: 121 reports
- Blood creatinine increased: 149 reports
- Blood glucose increased: 114 reports
- Blood urea increased: 103 reports
- Bone disorder: 190 reports
- Bone pain: 144 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 792 reports
- Bronchitis (inflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes): 426 reports
- Bronchospasm (spasm of bronchial smooth muscle producing narrowing of the bronchi): 105 reports
- Burning sensation: 115 reports
- Cardiac arrest: 138 reports
- Cardiac failure congestive: 298 reports
- Cataract (clouding of the lens inside the eye): 114 reports
- Cellulitis (infection under the skin): 198 reports
- Chest pain: 724 reports
- Chills (felling of cold): 215 reports
- Chronic kidney disease: 135 reports
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe): 143 reports
- Condition: 368 reports
- Confusion: 264 reports
- Confusional state: 233 reports
- Constipation: 293 reports
- Coronary heart disease (narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries): 132 reports
- Cough: 615 reports
- Death: 157 reports
- Deep venous thrombosis (blood clot in a major vein that usually develops in the legs and/or pelvis): 172 reports
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water): 329 reports
- Delirium (wild excitement): 106 reports
- Depression: 553 reports
- Dermatitis (inflammation of the skin resulting from direct irritation by an external agent or an allergic reaction to it): 294 reports
- Diabetes: 116 reports
- Diarrhea: 631 reports
- Dizziness: 464 reports
- Drowsiness: 192 reports
- Drug dependence: 146 reports
- Drug hypersensitivity: 1,226 reports
- Drug ineffective: 610 reports
- Drug toxicity: 106 reports
- Drug withdrawal syndrome (interfere with normal social, occupational, or other functioning. are not due to another medical condition, drug use, or discontinuation): 112 reports
- Dry mouth: 130 reports
- Ear pain: 103 reports
- Electrocardiogram qt prolonged: 110 reports
- Emotional distress: 228 reports
- Enlarged heart: 145 reports
- Erythema multiforme (a type of hypersensitivity reaction): 117 reports
- Face oedema (swelling of face): 116 reports
- Fainting (loss of consciousness and postural tone): 251 reports
- Fall: 439 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 864 reports
- Fever: 819 reports
- Fungal infection: 114 reports
- Gait disturbance: 177 reports
- Gallstones (stone formation by bile component): 124 reports
- Gastric disorder (disease of stomach): 145 reports
- Gastric ulcer (stomach ulcer): 124 reports
- Gastritis (inflammation of stomach): 169 reports
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (a condition in which stomach contents leak backward from the stomach into the oesophagus): 213 reports
- Gastrointestinal haemorrhage (bleeding gastrointestinal tract): 128 reports
- General physical health deterioration (weak health status): 109 reports
- Haemoglobin decreased: 118 reports
- Haemorrhoids (a swollen vein or group of veins in the region of the anus): 133 reports
- Hallucinations (sensations that appear real but are created by your mind): 182 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 744 reports
- Head injury: 120 reports
- Heart attack: 236 reports
- Heart palpitations (feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing): 336 reports
- Heart rate increased: 188 reports
- Hepatic failure (liver failure): 101 reports
- Hepatic steatosis (fatty liver disease): 165 reports
- Hepatitis (inflammation of the liver): 135 reports
- Hiatal hernia (hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm): 128 reports
- High blood cholesterol: 217 reports
- High blood pressure: 599 reports
- Hyperhidrosis (abnormally increased sweating): 149 reports
- Hypersensitivity: 367 reports
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation): 332 reports
- Hypokalemia (low potassium): 177 reports
- Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure): 309 reports
- Indigestion: 208 reports
- Infection: 264 reports
- Injury: 321 reports
- Insomnia (sleeplessness): 530 reports
- Intervertebral disc degeneration (spinal disc degeneration): 138 reports
- Intervertebral disc protrusion (spinal disc protrusion): 123 reports
- Intestinal obstruction: 119 reports
- Itching: 348 reports
- Jaundice - yellow skin (a yellowish pigmentation of the skin): 173 reports
- Joint pain: 571 reports
- Loss of consciousness: 216 reports
- Lymph follicular hypertrophy (an increase in the size of the lymph node follicles): 116 reports
- Macular degeneration (painless eye condition that leads to the gradual loss of central vision): 160 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 471 reports
- Memory loss: 215 reports
- Metastases to bone (cancer spreads to bone): 127 reports
- Migraine (headache): 101 reports
- Mitral valve incompetence (inefficient heart valve): 102 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 232 reports
- Muscle spasms (muscle contraction): 194 reports
- Musculoskeletal pain (pain affects the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves): 109 reports
- Nasal congestion (blockage of the nasal passages usually due to membranes lining the nose becoming swollen from inflamed blood vessels): 137 reports
- Nasopharyngitis (inflammation of the nasopharynx): 166 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 1,308 reports
- Nausea and vomiting: 938 reports
- Neck pain: 123 reports
- Nervousness: 143 reports
- Neuropathy peripheral (surface nerve damage): 177 reports
- Oedema (fluid collection in tissue): 190 reports
- Oedema peripheral (superficial swelling): 348 reports
- Oropharyngeal pain: 116 reports
- Osteoarthritis (a joint disease caused by cartilage loss in a joint): 211 reports
- Osteomyelitis (infection of bone): 152 reports
- Osteonecrosis of jaw (death of bone of jaw): 238 reports
- Osteopenia (a condition where bone mineral density is lower than normal): 119 reports
- Osteoporosis (bones weak and more likely to break): 146 reports
- Pain: 729 reports
- Pain in extremity: 338 reports
- Pain in jaw: 182 reports
- Pancreatitis (inflammation of pancreas): 159 reports
- Pancytopenia (medical condition in which there is a reduction in the number of red and white blood cells, as well as platelets): 153 reports
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect): 308 reports
- Pharyngitis (inflammation of the pharynx, causing a sore throat): 123 reports
- Pleural effusion (water on the lungs): 219 reports
- Pneumonia: 649 reports
- Productive cough: 166 reports
- Psychotic disorder: 186 reports
- Pulmonary embolism (blockage of the main artery of the lung): 163 reports
- Rashes (redness): 633 reports
- Rectal haemorrhage (bleeding from anus): 135 reports
- Renal failure acute (rapid kidney dysfunction): 255 reports
- Respiratory acidosis (respiratory failure or ventilatory failure, causes the ph of blood and other bodily fluids to decrease): 104 reports
- Rhabdomyolysis (a condition in which damaged skeletal muscle tissue breaks down): 174 reports
- Rib fracture: 136 reports
- Road traffic accident: 115 reports
- Scar: 110 reports
- Sepsis (a severe blood infection that can lead to organ failure and death): 183 reports
- Sinusitis (inflammation of sinus): 403 reports
- Sinus tachycardia (a heart rhythm with elevated rate of impulses originating from the sinoatrial node): 125 reports
- Smell - impaired: 102 reports
- Speech disorder: 116 reports
- Speech impairment (adult) (inability to speak (adult)): 127 reports
- Spinal osteoarthritis (joint cartilage loss in spine): 154 reports
- Stomatitis (inflammation of mucous membrane of mouth): 108 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 700 reports
- Stroke (sudden death of a portion of the brain cells due to a lack of oxygen): 121 reports
- Suicidal ideation: 108 reports
- Swallowing difficulty: 189 reports
- Swelling: 187 reports
- Taste disturbance: 334 reports
- Taste - impaired: 251 reports
- Taste loss: 112 reports
- The flu (the flu is caused by an influenza virus): 138 reports
- Thrombocytopenia (decrease of platelets in blood): 319 reports
- Tinnitus (a ringing in the ears): 139 reports
- Toothaches (tooth pain): 114 reports
- Tooth extraction: 110 reports
- Tremor (trembling or shaking movements in one or more parts of your body): 290 reports
- Upper respiratory tract infection: 198 reports
- Urinary tract infection: 188 reports
- Urticaria (rash of round, red welts on the skin that itch intensely): 336 reports
- Vision blurred: 158 reports
- Weakness: 900 reports
- Weight decreased: 500 reports
- Weight increased: 221 reports
- Wheezing (a high-pitched whistling sound made while you breath): 163 reports
All Biaxin side effects from A to Z:
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