Etidronate Disodium

Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?

Pagets disease of bone. Prevention and treatment of ectopic ossification complicating hip replacement. Osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. Hypercalcaemia of malignancy.

Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?

Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient
Osteoporosis with hypercalcaemia/hypercalciuria, osteomalacia.

Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication

In pagets disease, ensure 90 day drug-free interval between treatment courses, renal disease, children, malnutrition, patients with fracture (especially of long bones). May exacerbate asthma in asthmatics. Pregnancy and lactation.

What are possible side effects of this medication ?

GI symtoms like abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhoea and nausea. Recurrent bone pain at pagetic sites or the onset of pain at previously asymptomatic sites, metallic, altered or loss of taste during or shortly after the treatment. Headache, paraesthesia, leucopenia, agranulocytosis.

Drug Category/Class

Etidronate Disodium has 3 Brands listed


Disonate (200 mg)Dronate OS (200 mg)
Etifem (200 mg)

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