Omeprazole, Amoxicillin, And Rifabutin (Oral Route) Precautions

Precautions

Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®

It is important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits. This will allow your doctor to see if the medicine is working properly and to decide if you should continue to use it. Blood, urine, and other laboratory tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects. If your condition does not improve, or if it becomes worse, discuss this with your doctor.

Do not use this medicine together with delavirdine (Rescriptor®), rilpivirine ((Edurant®) or products containing rilpivirine (eg, Complera®, Odefsey®), or voriconazole (Vfend®). Using these medicines together may increase risk for more serious side effects.

Using this medicine while you are pregnant can harm your unborn baby. Use birth control pills together with another form of birth control (eg, condom, diaphragm, or contraceptive foam or jelly) to keep from getting pregnant. If you think you have become pregnant while using the medicine, tell your doctor right away.

This medicine may cause serious allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis and angioedema, which can be life-threatening and require immediate medical attention. Call your doctor right away if you have chest tightness, rash, itching, fast heartbeat, trouble breathing or swallowing, or large, hive-like swelling of the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, or sex organs while you are using this medicine.

Check with your doctor right away if you have blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin, chills, cough, diarrhea, itching, joint or muscle pain, red irritated eyes, red skin lesions, often with a purple center, sore throat, sores, ulcers, or white spots in the mouth or on the lips, or unusual tiredness or weakness. These may be symptoms of serious skin reactions, including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP), toxic epidermal necrolysis, and drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS).

This medicine may cause diarrhea, and in some cases it can be severe. It may occur 2 months or more after you stop taking this medicine. Do not take any medicine to treat diarrhea without first checking with your doctor. If you have any questions or if mild diarrhea continues or gets worse, check with your doctor.

Check with your doctor right away if you have a change in frequency of urination or amount of urine, blood in the urine, fever, joint pain, loss of appetite, skin rash, swelling of the body, feet, or ankles, unusual tiredness or weakness, or unusual weight gain after taking this medicine. These could be symptoms of acute tubulointerstitial nephritis.

Cutaneous or systemic lupus erythematosus may occur or get worse in patients receiving a PPI. Call your doctor right away if you have joint pain or a skin rash on your cheeks or arms that gets worse when exposed to the sun.

Check with your doctor immediately if blurred vision, difficulty in reading, or any other change in vision occurs during or after treatment. Your doctor may want you to have your eyes checked by an ophthalmologist (eye doctor).

Make sure any doctor or dentist who treats you knows that you are using this medicine. This medicine may affect the results of certain medical tests.

Talk with your doctor before using this medicine if you plan to have children. Some men who use this medicine have become infertile (unable to have children).

Avoid taking this medicine with alcohol.

This medicine may cause your skin, tears, saliva, sweat, urine, or bowel movements to turn a brownish-orange color. Your contact lenses could become permanently discolored.

Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal (eg, St. John's wort) or vitamin supplements.