Sulphasalazine

Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?

Ulcerative colitis. Crohns disease. Rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis..

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
Hypersensitivity. Porphyria, Children below the age of two years. Intestinal or urinary obstruction. G6PD deficiency. Blood dyscrasias.

Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication

Renal or hepatic impairment.

What are possible side effects of this medication ?

Headache, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal discomfort, photosensitivity, crystalluria, reversible oligospermia, yellow-orange staining of contact lens, skin, urine and other body fluids, alopoecia. Fibrosing alveolitis,

Drug Category/Class

Sulphasalazine has 8 Brands listed


Colizine (500 mg)Iwata (500 mg)
Saaz (500 mg)Saaz DS (1000 mg)
Salazar EC (500 mg)Salazopyrin (500 mg)
Salazopyrin EN (500 mg)Sazo EN (500 mg)

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