Effects of this medicine

Before using this medicine, be sure to tell your doctor and pharmacist

• If you have previously experienced any allergic reactions (itch, rash, etc.) to any medicines.
  If you have: renal disorder or liver disorder

• If you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

• If you are taking any other medicinal products. (Some medicines may interact to enhance or diminish medicinal effects. Beware of over-the-counter medicines and dietary supplements as well as other prescription medicines.)

Dosing schedule (How to take this medicine)

• Your dosing schedule prescribed by your doctor is ((        to be written by a healthcare professional))

• In general, for adults, children and neonates, inject by intravenous infusion more than one hour 3 times a day.
• This medicine may be injected 7 days for adults and children, 10 days for neonatal herpes simplex virus infection, as a guide. The treatment span may be extended as needed.
• This medicine may be started in early phase of the disease, because the effect can be expected than near early disease onset.

Precautions while taking this medicine

• Take appropriate amount of water during administration.
• This medicine may cause conscious disorder. Pay attention to operating dangerous machinery such as driving a car.
• Patients with renal dysfunction are more susceptible to conscious disorder, so avoid operating dangerous machinery such as driving a car.

Possible adverse reactions to this medicine

• respiratory distress, angioedema, palpitation [anaphylactic shock, anaphylaxis]
• headache, subcutaneous bleeding, sore throat [blood disorder such as pancytopenia, agranulocytosis etc.]
• decreased urine output, edema, headache [acute renal failure]
• coma, hallucination, convulsions [neuropsychiatric symptoms]
• fever, bulbar conjunctival hyperemia, mucosal eruption with pain of oral mucosa etc. [Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome]