AEGiS-CATIE: TOXICITY: Drugs for Toxo

TOXICITY: Drugs for Toxo

TreatmentUpdate43: Vol. 4, No. 3, July, 1993
Sean Hosein

See the section on PCP for information on Bactrim/Septra, Mepron, Clindamycin, primaquine and sulpha drugs.

Fansidar

This combination of pyrimethamine and Sulphadiazine can cause side effects in as many as 70% of patients. Such effects include:

severe and life-threatening rash
reduced levels of white blood cells and platelets
high blood levels of liver enzymes

Fansidar may interact with AZT worsening bone marrow damage and possibly decreasing the anti-toxo effects of Fansidar.

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