Emtricitabine (Emtriva) – Pharmacist Review – Uses, Dosing, Side Effects

In this episode, I discuss a medication known as emtricitabine (Emtriva).

Everybody welcome back to drug talk as always i’m your host kara campbell in today’s video we’re going to be discussing the medication known as m tricidibene its brand name is emtriva and before we talk about the medication itself just keep in mind that this channel is for information purposes only anatomies is a source for recommendations for your personal health

Care now during this presentation we’ll discuss the mechanism of action or how this medication works indications or reasons we prescribe this medication to a patient all by contraindications or reasons we would not be able to prescribe m tricedibean then discuss some examples of dosing and finish it off with side effects with percentages i’ve put together some

Slides to go over this information let’s jump right into it so the first thing to discuss here be the mechanism of action or how this medication works so m tricidabean is a synthetic nucleoside analog of cytosine after forming m-tricitabine-5-triphosphate it inhibits the activity of hiv-1 reverse transcriptase it partly works by being incorporated into nascent

Viral dna which results in chain termination in terms of indications or reasons we would prescribe amtricity to a patient well we would often see this medication prescribed in the treatment of an hiv infection with respect to contraindications or reasons we would not be able to prescribe this medication well we just wouldn’t give this medication to a patient who

Had a hypersensitivity to m tricidibene or to any other component of the formulation now for examples of dosing with m tricedibean so in the treatment of an hiv infection if a patient was using capsules they may use 200 milligrams orally once daily however if they’re using the solution they may use 240 milligrams which would be equivalent to 24 milliliters orally

Once daily as with all medications there are some side effects or adverse reactions that patients may experience while using m-tricitamine so i’ll go over some of those here now first some common side effects may be hyperpigmentation of the skin a rash may occur seven to thirty percent of the time eight to fourteen percent of patients may experience abdominal pain

While nine to 23 percent may experience diarrhea nausea seems to happen nine to 18 percent of the time and some patients may experience an infectious disease asthenia or abnormal weakness may happen 12 to sixteen percent of the time and dizziness four to twenty five percent of the time six to twenty two percent of patients may experience a headache and five to

Sixteen percent may experience insomnia depression seems to happen in six to nine percent of patients and some patients may experience a cough rhinitis or fatigue some serious side effects may be lactic acidosis or a hepatitis b exacerbation all right everybody that’s all we’re going to talk about today with m tricitabine or mtriva as always i’m very thankful

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