Xifaxan
Xifaxan is a antibiotics medication containing Rifaximin, available as 200/400/550mg tablets.
- Category
- Antibiotics
- Active ingredient
- Rifaximin
- Route
- Oral use
- Form
- Film-coated tablet
- Strengths
- 200/400/550mg
You will receive a quality generic equivalent, depending on stock.
Prescription rules on Xifaxan vary by country.
Details
- Conditions
- Hepatic encephalopathy · Traveller's diarrhoea
- Alternative Name
- Tixi-X, Normix
- Therapeutic Class
- Rifamycin Antibiotic
- Pharmacological Class
- Rifamycin Antibiotic
- Known Off-label Uses
- small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
- Minor Side Effects
- dizziness, headache, nausea, abdominal pain
- Moderate Side Effects
- flatulence, defaecation urgency, elevated liver enzymes
- Dosage Forms
- Film-coated tablet
- Administration Route
- Oral use
- Prescription Status
- Available without prescription
- Originator
- Norgine
- Onset Time
- 1–3 days
- Duration
- 14 days
- Storage Instructions
- Store below 25°C in original packaging.
- Drug Interactions
- ciclosporin
- Age Restrictions
- Not recommended for children under 12 years.
What you will receive
Xifaxan is the originator brand name, made by Norgine. We use it here to identify the medicine only; we are not affiliated with Norgine and do not ship the original Xifaxan.
- You receive a generic equivalent: the same active ingredient (Rifaximin) at the same dose, mostly recognised Indian branded generics from vetted manufacturers.
- The exact brand supplied depends on what is in stock at the dispatching warehouse.
- A regulated generic matches the original ingredient for ingredient by legal standard.