Nitrofurantoin side effects by duration, gender and age - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Side effects are reported by people who take Nitrofurantoin. Common side effects include asthenia among females and abdominal discomfort among males.
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4,141 people who take Nitrofurantoin and have side effects are studied.
What is Nitrofurantoin?
Nitrofurantoin has active ingredients of nitrofurantoin, macrocrystalline. It is often used in urinary tract infection. eHealthMe is studying from 4,754 Nitrofurantoin users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
Number of Nitrofurantoin reports submitted per year:
Nitrofurantoin side effects by time on the drug *:
Nitrofurantoin side effects by gender *:
Nitrofurantoin side effects by age *:
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
Do you take Nitrofurantoin?
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 nitrofurantoin, macrocrystalline (the active ingredients of Nitrofurantoin) and Nitrofurantoin (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 Nitrofurantoin:
- Nitrofurantoin (4,754 reports)
Common Nitrofurantoin side effects:
- Abdominal pain: 129 reports
- Abdominal pain upper: 106 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 123 reports
- Appetite - decreased (decreased appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat): 114 reports
- Back pain: 208 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 315 reports
- Cardiac failure congestive: 111 reports
- Chest pain: 190 reports
- Chills (felling of cold): 121 reports
- Confusional state: 114 reports
- Constipation: 119 reports
- Cough: 158 reports
- Deep venous thrombosis (blood clot in a major vein that usually develops in the legs and/or pelvis): 104 reports
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water): 125 reports
- Depression: 161 reports
- Diarrhea: 245 reports
- Dizziness: 210 reports
- Drug ineffective: 133 reports
- Emotional distress: 127 reports
- Fall: 236 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 291 reports
- Fever: 243 reports
- Gait disturbance: 107 reports
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (a condition in which stomach contents leak backward from the stomach into the oesophagus): 122 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 222 reports
- High blood pressure: 188 reports
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation): 102 reports
- Injury: 217 reports
- Itching: 117 reports
- Joint pain: 171 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 197 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 131 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 366 reports
- Nausea and vomiting: 245 reports
- Oedema peripheral (superficial swelling): 162 reports
- Pain: 415 reports
- Pain in extremity: 161 reports
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect): 138 reports
- Pneumonia: 158 reports
- Pulmonary embolism (blockage of the main artery of the lung): 170 reports
- Rashes (redness): 188 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 305 reports
- Tremor (trembling or shaking movements in one or more parts of your body): 104 reports
- Urinary tract infection: 379 reports
- Weakness: 318 reports
- Weight decreased: 116 reports
All Nitrofurantoin side effects from A to Z:
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