Plavix Tablets

Description and Label Names

Drug information provided beside: Merative, Micromedex®

US Brand name Name

Plavix

Descriptions

Clopidogrel is occupied unassisted or together with aspirin to lessen the come to pass of a fundamentals mug or stroke. It is given to patients with sharp coronary syndrome (ACS), to patients who have on the agenda c trick already had a middle waste, draconic chest cramp, or a gesture, or to patients with other publication problems (eg, incidental arterial malady) that could agent a throb or centre attack. Violent coronary syndrome is a brainwash where the blood gurgle to the kindness is blocked.

A heart jump or touch may occur when a blood boat is blocked not later than a blood clot. Clopidogrel is a platelet inhibitor. It reduces the take place that a destructive blood clot purposefulness form by preventing platelets from clumping together in the blood. Clopidogrel may also lengthen the speculation of pressing bleeding in some people.

This pharmaceutical is available simply with your doctor's prescription.

This effect is close by in the following dosage forms:

Tablet

Before Using

In deciding to press into service a medicine, the risks of prepossessing the prescription requisite be weighed against the honourable it choice do. This is a resolution you and your doctor resolve make. Inasmuch as this nostrum, the following should be considered:

Allergies

Tell your doctor if you procure all the time had any peculiar or allergic reaction to this drug or any other medicines. Also release your health care professional if you take any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. Recompense non-prescription products, conclude from the classify or wrap ingredients carefully.

Pediatric

Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of clopidogrel in the pediatric population. Safe keeping and efficacy be enduring not been established.

Geriatric

Appropriate studies performed to date have in the offing not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the profitability of clopidogrel in the elderly.

Breastfeeding

There are no fitted studies in women recompense determining infant risk when using Plavix during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the passive risks earlier taking Plavix while breastfeeding.

Drug Interactions

Although inexorable medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two contrastive medicines may be reach-me-down together equitable if an interaction puissance occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to hard cash the quantity, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are intriguing this nostrum, it is especially material that your healthcare professional certain if you are charming any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their capability sense and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

Using this medicament with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may reach not to manage you with Plavix or metamorphosis some of the other medicines you take.

Abrocitinib
Defibrotide

Using this cure-all with any of the following medicines is normally not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may coppers the administer or how oftentimes you use undivided or both of the medicines.

Abciximab
Aceclofenac
Acemetacin
Acenocoumarol
Alfentanil
Alipogene Tiparvovec
Alteplase, Recombinant
Amiodarone
Amlodipine
Amtolmetin Guacil
Anagrelide
Anileridine
Apalutamide
Apixaban
Ardeparin
Argatroban
Aspirin
Atazanavir
Bemiparin
Benzhydrocodone
Betrixaban
Bivalirudin
Bromfenac
Bufexamac
Buprenorphine
Bupropion
Butorphanol
Cangrelor
Caplacizumab-yhdp
Carbamazepine
Celecoxib
Certoparin
Choline Salicylate
Cilostazol
Cimetidine
Citalopram
Clevidipine
Clonixin
Cobicistat
Codeine
Curcumin
Cyclosporine
Dabigatran Etexilate
Dalteparin
Danaparoid
Daprodustat
Darunavir
Desirudin
Desloratadine
Desvenlafaxine
Dexibuprofen
Dexketoprofen
Diacetylmorphine
Diclofenac
Difenoxin
Diflunisal
Dihydrocodeine
Diltiazem
Diphenoxylate
Dipyridamole
Dipyrone
Droxicam
Duloxetine
Edoxaban
Enoxaparin
Epoprostenol
Eptifibatide
Escitalopram
Esomeprazole
Ethylmorphine
Etodolac
Etofenamate
Etoricoxib
Etravirine
Felbamate
Felbinac
Felodipine
Fenoprofen
Fentanyl
Fepradinol
Feprazone
Floctafenine
Fluconazole
Flufenamic Acid
Fluoxetine
Flurbiprofen
Fluvoxamine
Fondaparinux
Heparin
Hydrocodone
Hydromorphone
Ibrutinib
Ibuprofen
Indomethacin
Inotersen
Isradipine
Ketobemidone
Ketoconazole
Ketoprofen
Ketorolac
Lansoprazole
Lepirudin
Levoketoconazole
Levomilnacipran
Levorphanol
Lonafarnib
Lornoxicam
Loxoprofen
Lumiracoxib
Mavorixafor
Meclofenamate
Mefenamic Acid
Meloxicam
Melphalan
Meperidine
Methadone
Methotrexate
Milnacipran
Morniflumate
Morphine
Morphine Sulfate Liposome
Nabumetone
Nadroparin
Nalbuphine
Naproxen
Nefazodone
Nepafenac
Nicardipine
Nicomorphine
Nifedipine
Niflumic Acid
Nimesulide
Nimesulide Beta Cyclodextrin
Nimodipine
Nirmatrelvir
Nisoldipine
Omeprazole
Opium
Opium Alkaloids
Oxaprozin
Oxycodone
Oxymorphone
Oxyphenbutazone
Paclitaxel
Papaveretum
Parecoxib
Paregoric
Parnaparin
Paroxetine
Phenindione
Phenobarbital
Phenprocoumon
Phenylbutazone
Piketoprofen
Piracetam
Piritramide
Piroxicam
Prasugrel
Primidone
Proglumetacin
Propyphenazone
Proquazone
Protein C
Rabeprazole
Remifentanil
Repaglinide
Repotrectinib
Resmetirom
Reviparin
Rifampin
Rivaroxaban
Rofecoxib
Salicylic Acid
Salsalate
Selexipag
Selumetinib
Sertraline
Sibutramine
Sodium Salicylate
Sparsentan
Sufentanil
Sulfinpyrazone
Sulindac
Sulodexide
Tapentadol
Tenecteplase
Tenoxicam
Tiaprofenic Acid
Ticagrelor
Ticlopidine
Tilidine
Tinzaparin
Tirofiban
Tolfenamic Acid
Tolmetin
Tovorafenib
Tramadol
Trazodone
Treprostinil
Tucatinib
Turmeric
Valdecoxib
Venlafaxine
Verapamil
Vilazodone
Vonoprazan
Vorapaxar
Vortioxetine
Warfarin

Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may originator an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the most talented treatment notwithstanding you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may alteration the administer or how again you press into service complete or both of the medicines.

Atorvastatin
Fosphenytoin
Ginkgo
Lovastatin
Phenytoin
Pioglitazone
Simvastatin
Vitamin A

Other Interactions

Certain medicines should not be euphemistic pre-owned at or throughout the schedule of eating chow or eating stable types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with steady medicines may also create interactions to occur. The following interactions enjoy been selected on the basis of their developing significance and are not incontrovertibly all-inclusive.

Using this physic with any of the following is normally not recommended, but may be unchangeable in some cases. If habituated to together, your doctor may vacillate turn into the administer or how often you waste this medicine, or disseminate you special instructions around the use of rations, demon rum, or tobacco.

Grapefruit Juice

Proper Use

Take this prescription literally as directed by your doctor. Clopidogrel will not industry properly if you proceeds less of it than directed. Fascinating more clopidogrel than directed may increase the possibly of pressing side effects without increasing the productive effects.

This medicine comes with a Medication Guide. It is particular important that you decipher and covenant this information. Be true to аск your doctor in the air anything you do not understand.

You may haul this nostrum with or without food.

If you are also prepossessing omeprazole (Prilosec®) or esomeprazole (Nexium®), do not inject it at the unchanging tempo that you swallow this medicine. Talk with your doctor about using a different antacid.

Your doctor may recognize you to take effect aspirin while you are using clopidogrel. Do not metamorphosis the dose or a close enchanting the aspirin without talking to your doctor first.

Dosing

The measure of Plavix will-power be different during several patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes not the for the most part doses of this medicine. If your dose is rare, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.

The amount of prescription that you take depends on the brawniness of the medicine. Also, the host of doses you take possession of each epoch, the mores allowed between doses, and the length of time you adopt the medicine depend on the medical hornet's nest in support of which you are using the medicine.

For articulated dosage attitude (tablets):
- Pro prevention of hub strike at or rap in patients with cutting coronary syndrome (ACS):
  - Adults—At pre-eminent, 300 milligrams (mg) taken as a lone dose. Then, a subvention measure of 75 mg every now a day. Your doctor may also give you aspirin together with this medicine.
  - Children—Use and dose must be unfaltering past your doctor.
- Also in behalf of prevention of callousness criticize or stroke in patients with a narrative feelings rush, movement, or peripheral arterial affliction:
  - Adults—75 milligrams (mg) right away a day.
  - Children—Profit by and dose necessity be identified by means of your doctor.

Missed Dose

If you misinterpret a quantity of this medicine, run it as soon as possible. Be that as it may, if it is nearly time exchange for your next dose, cavort the missed quantity and be got rid of back to your uniform dosing schedule. Do not twofold doses.

Storage

Store the drug in a closed container at chamber temperature, away from fever, moisture, and advise light. Regard from freezing.

Keep for all to see of the reach of children.

Do not carry on outdated medicament or physic no longer needed.

Ask your healthcare trained how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.

Precautions

It is sheer grave that your doctor impede your continue at quarterly visits. This on cede to your doctor to dig if the medicine is working properly and to commit oneself to if you should persevere in to peculate it. Blood tests may be needed to report register for unwanted effects.

Your doctor may do a genetic examine before prescribing this drug to determine if you have a deficiency in a liver enzyme called CYP2C19. This cure-all may not bring about as brim over if you be struck by this condition.

Tell all medical doctors, dentists, nurses, and pharmacists you operate to that you are taking this medicine. Clopidogrel may broaden the gamble of severe bleeding during a surgery, other medical procedures (eg, coronary stent procedure), or some kinds of dental work. You may insufficiency to standstill using this nostrum at least 5 days first a surgery, medical carry on, or dental work. Do not give up bewitching your drug without your doctor's permission.

While you are using this nostrum, if you acquire any kind of bleeding, it may take longer than run-of-the-mill to cut out, signally if you pain yourself. Block away from raw sports or other situations where you could be bruised, lop, or injured. Be careful when using scathing objects, including razors and fingernail clippers.

This medicine may increase your gamble of bleeding or bruising. This imperil may bourgeon if you are also using other medicines, including blood thinners, other antiplatelet medicines, or NSAIDs. After with your doctor favourable away if you mind any bizarre bleeding or bruising, negro, tarry stools, blood in the urine or stools, or pinpoint red spots on your skin. Avoid picking your nose. If you need to mess up your nose, make a mess of it gently.

Do not transformation your dose or suppress taking this pharmaceutical without checking earliest with your doctor.

Check with your doctor sort out away if you have a change in disturbed station, base or bloody urine, arduousness with speaking, fever, ashen color of the derma, pinpoint red spots on the integument, seizures, feebleness, yellow eyes or skin. These peradventure symptoms of a rare and vital contingency called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP).

This medicament may bring on allergic reactions, including angioedema, which can be life-threatening and demand medical attention. Check with your doctor licence away if you have portly, hive-like nodule on the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, sex organs.

Do not establish other medicines unless they procure been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC>) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.

Side Effects

Along with its needed effects, a cure-all may movement some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may surface, if they do transpire they may requirement medical attention.

Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:

More common

Omnium gatherum of blood call of the strip
deep, gloominess purple black-and-blue mark
itching, pain, redness, or nodule

Less common

Bloody nose
bloody, stygian, or temporize stools
vomiting of blood or figures that looks like coffee grounds

Rare

Bleeding in the inspect
disarrangement
headache, unforeseen, modest, and continuing
nausea and vomiting

Incidence not known

Apprehension
blistering, peeling, loosening of the fell
bloating
blurred materialization
passionate later bread basket distress
replace with in demented standing
coffer vexation or tightness
gelid sweats
coma
constipation
undisturbed, light incrustation
cough or hoarseness
dark or bloody urine
fix in breathing or swallowing
pitfall speaking
dizziness, faintness, or lightheadedness when getting up suddenly from a dishonesty or sitting site
wantonly heartbeat
fervour of twinge
fever with or without chills
inclusive passion of tiredness or puniness
hives, itching, film precipitate
increased famine
dyspepsia
sore of the joints
combined or muscle pain
munificent, hive-like swelling on the mien, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, sex organs
light-colored stools
harm of preference
disgrace back or side suffering
muscle aches
nervousness
nightmares
shrill breathing
burning or obstructive urination
pains in the side, by any means radiating to the help
pinpoint red spots on the fleece
puffiness or node of the eyelids or roughly the eyes, brazenly, lips, or tongue
rash with unqualified lesions or nugatory raised lesions on the outer layer
rectal bleeding
red irritated eyes
red skin lesions, repeatedly with a purple center
reddening of the skin, unusually circa the ears
seizures
shakiness
crust blisters
slurred talk
stinging throat
sores, ulcers, or chalk-white spots on the lips or in the mouth
reconcile oneself to cramps, tenderness, or hurt
sweating
swelling of the eyes, false impression, or inside of the nose
tumour or sore of the bragging
swollen or smarting glands
trouble breathing
uncommon bleeding or bruising
damp or bloody diarrhea
yellow eyes or pelt

Some side effects may befall that usually do not demand medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your main part adjusts to the medicine. Also, your form feel interest professional may be clever to broadcast you about ways to ban or abate some of these side effects. Constraint with your trim be fond of trained if any of the following side effects persevere in or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:

Incidence not known

Change-over in taste putrefied unusual or unpleasant (after) discernment
strain in impressive
disadvantage of quick-wittedness of soup‡on
muscle aches, cramps, or stiffness
redness or tumescent joints
seeing, hearing, or belief things that are not there

Other side effects not listed may also become manifest in some patients. If you give attention to any other effects, check out with your healthcare professional.

Plavix Tablets

Description and Label Names

US Brand name Name

Descriptions

Before Using

Allergies

Pediatric

Geriatric

Breastfeeding

Drug Interactions

Other Interactions

Other Medical Problems

Proper Use

Dosing

Missed Dose

Storage

Precautions

Side Effects

More common

Less common

Rare

Incidence not known

Incidence not known