Guide To Budesonide

Potential Medication Interactions

Patients need to review their current medications with their doctor before taking this one. The review should include prescriptions, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and supplements. This is because budesonide interacts with more than three hundred 300 other medicines. Out of these, it is associated with at least fifty major potential medication interactions.

Patients who take medications that could cause bleeding or bruising should talk to their doctor before using budesonide. In particular, patients should let their doctor know if they take any nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, such as ibuprofen. Budesonide can interact with clopidogrel and other antiplatelet drugs. It also interacts with blood thinners, including warfarin and dabigatran. Patients who take aldesleukin may not be able to use budesonide.