Mesalamine side effects by duration, gender and age - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Side effects are reported by people who take Mesalamine. Common side effects include abdominal pain among females and abdominal pain among males.
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9,861 people who take Mesalamine and have side effects are studied.
What is Mesalamine?
Mesalamine has active ingredients of mesalamine. It is often used in ulcerative colitis. eHealthMe is studying from 10,075 Mesalamine users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
Number of Mesalamine reports submitted per year:

Mesalamine side effects by time on the drug *:
Mesalamine side effects by gender *:
Mesalamine side effects by age *:
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
Do you take Mesalamine?
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.
Related publications that referenced our studies
- Jacobsson H, Eriksen J, Karlén P, "Mesalazine-induced renal calculi", The American journal of case reports, 2015 Jan .
How the study uses the data?
The study is based on mesalamine (the active ingredients of Mesalamine) and Mesalamine (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 Mesalamine:
- Mesalamine (10,075 reports)
Common Mesalamine side effects:
- Abdominal distension: 101 reports
- Abdominal pain: 491 reports
- Abdominal pain upper: 182 reports
- Accidental exposure: 118 reports
- Acute kidney failure: 103 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 240 reports
- Appetite - decreased (decreased appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat): 151 reports
- Back pain: 125 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 283 reports
- Chest pain: 196 reports
- Chills (felling of cold): 123 reports
- Colitis (inflammation of colon): 246 reports
- Condition: 209 reports
- Constipation: 101 reports
- Cough: 163 reports
- Crohn's disease (condition that causes inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract): 731 reports
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water): 203 reports
- Depression: 124 reports
- Diarrhea: 842 reports
- Diarrhea haemorrhagic: 106 reports
- Dizziness: 220 reports
- Drug hypersensitivity: 167 reports
- Drug ineffective: 795 reports
- Fall: 115 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 516 reports
- Fever: 519 reports
- Gait disturbance: 115 reports
- Haematochezia (passage of stools containing blood): 279 reports
- Haemoglobin decreased: 148 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 335 reports
- High blood pressure: 203 reports
- Hypersensitivity: 132 reports
- Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure): 144 reports
- Infusion related reaction: 135 reports
- Injection site pain: 138 reports
- Insomnia (sleeplessness): 108 reports
- Intestinal obstruction: 134 reports
- Itching: 168 reports
- Joint pain: 285 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 218 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 125 reports
- Muscle spasms (muscle contraction): 121 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 459 reports
- Nausea and vomiting: 334 reports
- Oedema peripheral (superficial swelling): 128 reports
- Pain: 285 reports
- Pain in extremity: 153 reports
- Pancreatitis (inflammation of pancreas): 117 reports
- Pancytopenia (medical condition in which there is a reduction in the number of red and white blood cells, as well as platelets): 105 reports
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect): 106 reports
- Pneumonia: 208 reports
- Rashes (redness): 321 reports
- Rectal haemorrhage (bleeding from anus): 205 reports
- Sepsis (a severe blood infection that can lead to organ failure and death): 152 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 176 reports
- Thrombocytopenia (decrease of platelets in blood): 115 reports
- Ulcerative colitis (inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). it causes swelling, ulcerations, and loss of function of the large intestine): 668 reports
- Urinary tract infection: 115 reports
- Weakness: 336 reports
- Weight decreased: 362 reports
- Weight increased: 189 reports
All Mesalamine side effects from A to Z:
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