(kar GLOO mik AS id) Brand: Carbaglu
• Avoid eating foods that are tall in protein when you first start taking carglumic acid. Follow your doctor's instructions about any another restrictions on food, beverages, or activity.
• Your doctor may occasionally change your doze to create certain you get the excellent results. Dose adjustments are especially significant as your baby grows.
• To be certain this medication is helping your condition and is not causing deleterious effects, your blood will need to be tested often. A buildup of ammonia in the blood can quickly reason brain injury or death. Do not miss any follow up visits to your doctor for blood trials. Each face with a urea cycle mess must stay under the care of a doctor.
• If you skip a meal, do not take your doze of carglumic acid. Wait before your following meal.
• Carglumic acid is only part of a complete program of treatment that may also include a particular diet and another medications. It is very significant to follow the diet plan created for you by your doctor or nutrition counselor. You must become very familiar with the list of foods you must ate or avoid to help control your condition.
• Carglumic acid is a man-made form of an enzyme that occurs naturally in the liver. This enzyme is necessary for processing excess nitrogen produced when the body metabolizes proteins. Without this enzyme, nitrogen builds up in the form of ammonia and is not removed from the body. Ammonia is very toxic when it circulates in blood and tissues and can reason permanent brain hurt, coma, or death.
• Carglumic acid is used to treat hyperammonemia (HYE-per-AM-moe-NEE-mee-a), a urea cycle mess caused by lack of a determined liver enzyme. Carglumic acid is generally given with another medications to treat this lifelong disorder.
• Carglumic acid may also be used for purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• Speak your doctor about all of your medical conditions.
• Carglumic acid is only part of a complete program of treatment that may also include a particular diet and another medications. It is very significant to follow the diet plan created for you by your doctor or nutrition counselor. You must become very familiar with the list of foods you must ate or avoid to help control your condition.
• FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether carglumic acid will harm an unborn child. Speak your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant while using this medication.
• It is not known whether carglumic acid passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing child. You must not breast-feed while you are using carglumic acid.
• Take exactly as predesigned by your doctor. Do not take in larger or less amounts or for longer than recommended. Follow the directions on your prescription label.
• Your doctor may occasionally change your doze to create certain you get the excellent results. Dose adjustments are especially significant as your baby grows.
• Carglumic acid is generally taken 2 to 4 times every day, just till every meal or feeding. Follow your doctor's instructions.
• Do not chew, crush, or swallow the carglumic acid tablet whole. Seat it into a glass of water and let the tablet to disperse in the liquid. The tablet will not dissolve completely. Drink this mixture right away. To create certain you get the entire doze, add a few more liquid to the same glass, swirl gently and drink right away.
• The carglumic acid tablet may be taken with an oral syringe as follows: Seat a 200-milligram tablet into an oral syringe and draw 2.5 milliliters of water into the syringe. Shake before the tablet is dispersed and then empty the syringe into your mouth. Refill the syringe with water, shake gently, and empty into your mouth.
• The carglumic acid tablet can also be given through a nasogastric (NG) feeding tube as follows: Disperse the tablet in an oral syringe as directed above. Attach the syringe to the NG pipe and push the plunger down to empty the syringe into the pipe. Then flush the pipe with more water to wash the contents down.
• To be certain this medication is helping your condition and is not causing deleterious effects, your blood will need to be tested often. A buildup of ammonia in the blood can quickly reason brain injury or death. Do not miss any follow up visits to your doctor for blood trials. Each face with a urea cycle mess must stay under the care of a doctor.
• Store unopened bottles of carglumic acid tablets in the refrigerator, do not freeze.
• After opening the bottle, store at room temperature away from moisture and heat. Do not store opened bottles in the refrigerator. Hold the bottle tightly closed when not in use.
• When you open the bottle, write the date on the bottle. Throw away any unused tablets 1 month (30 days) after the date of opening, or if the expiration date printed on the label has passed.
• Take the missed doze as soon as you remember, but only if you are getting ready to ate a meal. Skip the missed doze if it is nearly time for your following scheduled doze. Do not take extra medication to create up the missed dose.
• If you skip a meal, do not take your doze of carglumic acid. Wait before your following meal.
• Search abnormal medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
• Overdose symptoms may include fever, hard sweating, quick heart course, coughing up mucus, and feeling restless.
• Avoid eating foods that are tall in protein when you first start taking carglumic acid.
• Follow your doctor's instructions about any another restrictions on food, beverages, or activity.
• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
· fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms, sores in your mouth and throat;
· pale skin, feeling light-headed or short of breath, rapid heart course, trouble concentrating; or
· pain or fullness in your ear, hearing problems.
• Smaller serious side effects may include:
· vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain;
· headache; or
· stuffy nose, sore throat.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
• There may be another drugs that can interact with carglumic acid. Speak your doctor about all the prescription and over-the-counter medications you use. This includes vitamins, minerals, herbal commodity, and drugs predesigned by another doctors. Do not start using a new medicine without telling your doctor.
• Your pharmacist can provide more information about carglumic acid.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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