Clindamycin injection

clindamycin injection

Product Description

Products Name:

Clindamycin injection

Contains:

Clindamycin Phosphate 150mg/ml

Package:

2ml ampoule *50/ box

Uses of Clindamycin Injection:

It is used to treat or prevent bacterial infections.

What do I need to tell my doctor BEFORE I take Clindamycin Injection?

  • If you have an allergy to lincomycin, clindamycin, or any other part of clindamycin injection.
  • If you are allergic to clindamycin injection; any part of clindamycin injection; or any other drugs, foods, or substances. Tell your doctor about the allergy and what signs you had.
  • If you have meningitis. This medicine is not used to treat meningitis.
  • This medicine may interact with other drugs or health problems.
    Tell your doctor and pharmacist about all of your drugs (prescription or OTC, natural products, vitamins) and health problems. You must check to make sure that it is safe for you to take clindamycin injection with all of your drugs and health problems. Do not start, stop, or change the dose of any drug without checking with your doctor.

    What are some things I need to know or do while I take Clindamycin Injection?

  • Tell all of your health care providers that you take clindamycin injection. This includes your doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and dentists.
  • Have your blood work checked if you are on clindamycin injection for a long time. Talk with your doctor.
  • This medicine does not treat the common cold.
  • Do not use longer than you have been told. A second infection may happen.
  • A severe and sometimes deadly reaction has happened. Most of the time, this reaction has signs like fever, rash, or swollen glands with problems in body organs like the liver, kidney, blood, heart, muscles and joints, or lungs.
  • If you have questions, talk with the doctor.
  • If you are 60 or older, use clindamycin injection with care. You could have more side effects.
  • Some products have benzyl alcohol. Do not give a product that has benzyl alcohol in it to a newborn or infant. Talk with the doctor to see if this product has benzyl alcohol in it.
  • Tell your doctor if you are pregnant, plan on getting pregnant, or are breast-feeding. You will need to talk about the benefits and risks to you and the baby.
  • How is this medicine (Clindamycin Injection) best taken?

    Use clindamycin injection as ordered by your doctor. Read all information given to you. Follow all instructions closely.

    It is given as a shot into a muscle or as an infusion into a vein over a period of time.