Health Care Providers Urged To Weigh Risks of Levaquin
The Food and Drug Administration has urged health care professionals to carefully consider whether the benefits of prescribing the antibiotic drug Levaquin are outweighed by the risks.
Those risks include pain, swelling, inflammation and tears of the tendons including the shoulder, hand and Achilles located at the back of the ankle. The odds that a patient will experience a debilitating and painful tendon tear or tendinitis are increased if the patient is over the age of 60, taking steroids, and a kidney, heart or lung transplant. Patients may experience tendinitis or tendon rupture while taking Levaquin or long after drug therapy has ended.
Made by Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Levaquin (known generically as levofloxacin) was approved by the FDA to treat bacterial infections in many different parts of the body. The drug can be administered in the form of a pill, as an injection or in an intravenous drip.I
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