Retrovir Information

Retrovir is used to treat AIDS all over the world. It represses the production of immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in our body. It prevents the virus from multiplying in our body. It is also supplied to the HIV positive pregnant women, to stop the virus that may pass into the fetus from the mother's body. This drug is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor which inhibits an important enzyme reverse transcriptase to prevent the multiplication of the virus cell in the patient's body. There may be other uses of cheap Retrovir which has not been properly understood yet.

Retrovir Side Effects and Precautions

The general side effects of discount Retrovir are a few allergic reactions like swelling of your tongue, face, lips, or throat, difficulty breathing, hives etc. If there are appearances of a few severe side effects like headache, fatigue, vomiting, loss of appetite, nausea, liver damage, dark urine, stomach pain, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes) in patients' body they are recommended to consult their doctor urgently. Zidovudine may cause lactic acidosis, including symptoms like trouble breathing, unusual muscle pain and weakness, vomiting, fast or irregular heart rate, nausea, numbness, stomach pain, a cold feeling in a patient's arms or legs etc.

Zidovudine is strictly prohibited for patients who are taking drugs like doxorubicin, stavudine or ribavirin, or patients having a high blood level of lactic acid, having abnormal liver, enlarged liver. A few more antiviral drugs are supplied to the patient along with this generic drug.

Dosage Information for Retrovir

The recommended dose of Retrovir for adult is 600 mg daily whereas pediatric patients are supplied this as per their body weight and age. Children of between 4 to 9 kg are supplied by 24 mg/kg/day, between 9 to 30 kg by 18 mg/kg/day and more than 30 kg is supplied by 600 mg per day. Consumer can buy Retrovir from North Drug Mart as 100 mg capsule and 300 mg tablet.