Nimesulide provides relief from primary dysmenorrhoea in adolescents & osteoarthritis. It’s a anti-inflammatory, non-steroidal drug. Nimusilide provides treatment for acute pain. But nimesulide has been drawn aside from the market because of its hepatic effects (risk of hepatatoxicity) on patients. In India this banned compound is still available easily. Because of the adverse reactions European countries & Israel has withdrawn nimesulide from market.
European countries have also banned the use of Nimesulide in view of its unacceptable rate of serious adverse reactions. Israel also withdrew the use of Nimesulide in 1999 after reports of several cases of severe hepatic failure.
Few of the trade names are:
Aulin, Ainex, Mesulid,Drexel, Edrigyl, Enetra, Eskaflam, Heugan, Donulide, Minapon, Nexen, Nimed, Nimedex, Nimesil, Nise,Nimulid, Nimutab, Nisulid, Nidolon,Nodard Plus (India), Scaflam, Scaflan etc.
Side effects of nimesulide:
- Use of nimesulide can cause hepatotoxic risks. It can happen not only in children but also in adults.
- It can even cause liver injury.
- According to a few studies nimesulide should not be used for the primary mode of therapy as anti-pyretic, particularly for children.
- Study reveals that five day use of nimusulide (by a 70 year old women) cause jaundice & as per laboratory probes hypoglycaemia, hypoalbuminaemia. Coagulopathy were there. In spite of the treatment acute renal failure enlarged.
- Prolong use of nimesulide can developed gastritis.
- Through an action on COX-2 colon cancer can occur.
- Indigestion is one of the most common effect.
- Some other side effects that can be experienced are:
- Headache, skin rash, vomiting, diarrhoea, dizziness & pruritis.
- Pregnant women or women in lactation should consult a doctor before having this drug.
7 Users Response In This Post
being a central govt. employee i approached the central govt. health scheme as i was suffering from high fever. i was prescribed nimesulide among other drugs. now, after 5 days i am having sever dizziness . thank you very much for enlightening me. now i will discontinue using numesulide.
Present article about nimesulide side effect gives perfect idea about adverse effects.
I used Nimesulide namely tablet Narcogin and Unix easily available in Pakistan.
I used the above tablets during Headache and after using i feel relief of pain.
but some how i am feeling vomiting and digestive problem.
so i will discontinue the above immediately.
i am prescribed nimesulide for chronic non infective allergic discomfort(swelling and pain) in my throat..
i ‘ll quiet it abruptly n report back to my ENT specialist n pharmacologist….
It is enlightening to read about the side effects of nimesulide. What I’m worried about is that there are so many people still ignorant about the danger of using this drug while it is still easily available in the market though it is already banned.
nimesulide in excess dosage is not good for one’s body. it is the excess dosage that triggers adverse reactions…in adults..
NISE for instance has nimesulide.. but when consumed in normal dosage per day..will not have any adverse reactions…
I have been using NISE tablet (which contains nimesulide) from the past 6 years for getting relief from fever and head ache. I never had any issue or side effect and I’m extremely happy with the way it worked. I don’t think it is banned in India as many doctors are still prescribing it and many people are using it. The side effects you are talking about might be because of some other reason
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