Precautions
Take extra caution in patients with the following medical conditions:
- Breast cancer
- Liver or gallbladder illness
- Diabetes
- Depression
- Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
- Sickle cell disease
- Epilepsy
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Illnesses which appeared for the 1st time during pregnancy or during previous use of sexual hormones
- Hearing loss
- Porphyria
- Gestational herpes that is skin rash with pimples during pregnancy
- Sydenham’s chorea
- Chloasma
- Hereditary angioedema
- Surgery
- Chronic Immobilization or serious accidents during treatment
- Venous Thrombosis
- Arterial Thrombosis
- Cancer
- Benign kidney tumors
Interactions
Ethinylestradiol Drospirenone may interact with the following drugs:
- Medicines used to treat epilepsy like primidone
- Phenytoin
- Barbiturates
- Carbamazepine
- Oxcarbazepine
- Drugs for Tuberculosis (example rifampicin)
- Drugs for HIV (ritonavir)
- Drugs for other infectious diseases (griseofulvin, ampicillin, tetracyclines)
- John’s wort