Elidel side effects by duration, gender and age - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Side effects are reported by people who take Elidel. Common side effects include application site burning among females and drug ineffective among males.
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4,137 people who take Elidel and have side effects are studied.
What is Elidel?
Elidel has active ingredients of pimecrolimus. It is often used in eczema. eHealthMe is studying from 4,190 Elidel users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
Number of Elidel reports submitted per year:

Elidel side effects by time on the drug *:
Elidel side effects by gender *:
Elidel side effects by age *:
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
Do you take Elidel?
Personalize this study to your gender and ageHow to use the study?
You can discuss the study with your doctor, to ensure that all drug risks and benefits are fully discussed and understood.
How the study uses the data?
The study is based on pimecrolimus (the active ingredients of Elidel) and Elidel (the brand name). Other drugs that have the same active ingredients (e.g. generic drugs) are not considered.
Related studies
Alternative drugs to, pros and cons of Elidel:
- Elidel (4,190 reports)
Common Elidel side effects:
- Abdominal pain: 126 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 158 reports
- Application site erythema (redness of the skin at application site): 147 reports
- Back pain: 106 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 190 reports
- Bronchitis (inflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes): 103 reports
- Chest pain: 121 reports
- Cough: 151 reports
- Depression: 117 reports
- Dermatitis atopic (inflammatory, chronically relapsing, non-contagious and pruritic skin disorder): 106 reports
- Diarrhea: 190 reports
- Dizziness: 131 reports
- Drug ineffective: 239 reports
- Dry skin: 106 reports
- Eczema (patches of skin become rough and inflamed, with itching and bleeding blisters): 196 reports
- Eye irritation: 120 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 294 reports
- Fever: 241 reports
- Hair loss: 164 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 188 reports
- Hodgkin's lymphoma (cancer originating from white blood cells): 177 reports
- Injury: 150 reports
- Insomnia (sleeplessness): 133 reports
- Itching: 274 reports
- Joint pain: 142 reports
- Lymph follicular hypertrophy (an increase in the size of the lymph node follicles): 240 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 201 reports
- Nausea and vomiting: 170 reports
- Non-hodgkin's lymphoma (malignant (cancer) cells form in the lymph system): 129 reports
- Pain: 196 reports
- Pain in extremity: 122 reports
- Rashes (redness): 516 reports
- Sinusitis (inflammation of sinus): 155 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 152 reports
- Upper respiratory tract infection: 118 reports
- Urticaria (rash of round, red welts on the skin that itch intensely): 110 reports
- Weakness: 166 reports
- Weight decreased: 188 reports
All Elidel side effects from A to Z:
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