Precautions

Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®

It is very important that your doctor check your child's progress closely while you are receiving this medicine to make sure that it is working properly. Blood tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.

This medicine may increase your child's risk for infection. Check with your doctor right away if your child has fever or chills, cough or hoarseness, lower back or side pain, or painful or difficult urination.

This medicine may cause serious skin reactions, including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, exfoliative dermatitis, and acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP). Check with your doctor right away if your child has blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin, chills, cough, cracks in the skin, diarrhea, itching, joint or muscle pain, red irritated eyes, red skin lesions, often with a purple center, scaly skin, sore throat, sores, ulcers, or white spots in the mouth or on the lips, or unusual tiredness or weakness.