Complete adverse effect profile including incidence rates and management
Important Safety Information
This is not a complete list of all possible side effects. Contact your healthcare provider if you experience any unexpected symptoms. For serious or life-threatening side effects, seek emergency medical attention immediately.
6 ADVERSE REACTIONS The following serious adverse reactions are described elsewhere in labeling: Hypersensitivity and Other Life-Threatening Reactions [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.1 )] Hypokalemia [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.3 )] Metabolic Acidosis [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.4 )] Falls [ see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.5 )] Most common adverse reactions (incidence at least 10% and greater than placebo) include paresthesias, cognitive disorder, dysgeusia, and confusional state ( 6.1 ) To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc.
at 1-844-874-7464, or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
6.1 Clinical Trials Experience Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice.
In a 9-week randomized controlled trial in adults with hyperkalemic or hypokalemic periodic paralysis (Study 1), the most common adverse reactions in patients treated with dichlorphenamide, with rates greater than placebo, were paresthesia, cognitive disorder, dysgeusia, and confusional state.
The mean dose of dichlorphenamide was 94 mg/day in patients with hypokalemic periodic paralysis and 82 mg/day in patients with hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.
Table 1 lists the incidence of adverse reactions that occurred in ≥ 5% of patients treated with dichlorphenamide and more commonly than in patients treated with placebo in Study
Table 1: Adverse Reactions in Patients Treated with dichlorphenamide with Incidence > 5% and more common than in Patients Treated with Placebo in Study 1 * Cognitive disorder combined cases with the preferred terms of cognitive disorder, disturbance in attention, and mental impairment.
diclorophenamide-Table 1.jpg 6.2 Postmarketing Experience Adverse reactions have been identified during postapproval use of dichlorphenamide.
Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure.
The following are adverse reactions which have been reported during postapproval use of dichlorphenamide and were serious or are not reported in the previous section of labeling [see Clinical Trials Experience ( 6.1 ) ]: amnesia, cardiac failure, condition aggravated, convulsion, hallucination, nephrolithiasis, pancytopenia, psychotic disorder, renal tubular necrosis, stupor, syncope, tremor.
5 WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS Hypersensitivity and Other Life-Threatening Reactions: discontinue dichlorphenamide at the first appearance of skin rash or any sign of immune-mediated or idiosyncratic adverse reaction ( 5.1 ) Hypokalemia: baseline and periodic measurements of serum potassium are recommended;
if hypokalemia develops or persists, consider reducing the dose or discontinuing dichlorphenamide and correcting potassium levels ( 5.3 ) Metabolic acidosis: baseline and periodic measurements of serum bicarbonate are recommended;
if metabolic acidosis develops or persists, consider reducing the dose or discontinuing dichlorphenamide ( 5.4 ) Falls: consider reducing the dose or discontinuing dichlorphenamide in patients who experience falls ( 5.5 ) 5.1 Hypersensitivity and Other Life-Threatening Reactions Fatalities associated with the administration of sulfonamides have occurred because of adverse reactions including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, fulminant hepatic necrosis, agranulocytosis, aplastic anemia and other blood dyscrasias.
Pulmonary involvement can occur in isolation or as part of a systemic reaction.
Dichlorphenamide should be discontinued at the first appearance of skin rash or any sign of immune-mediated or other life-threatening adverse reaction.
Like all medications, Dichlorphenamide can cause side effects. However, not everyone who takes this medication will experience them. Many side effects are dose-dependent and may improve as your body adjusts to the medication. Others may require dose adjustment or medical attention.
Contact your healthcare provider promptly if you experience:
Seek immediate emergency medical care if you experience signs of: