Tacrolimus is used together with other medicines to prevent the body from rejecting a transplanted organ (eg, kidney, liver, or heart).
Tacrolimus is an immunosuppressant. In organ transplant patients, it works by suppressing your body’s immune response helping your body to accept the new organ as if it were your own. In allergic eye disease, it works by decreasing the production of chemicals (eg. histamine) that cause allergic eye symptoms such as inflammation (redness and swelling).
Major & minor side effects for Tacrolimus
- Abdominal pain
- Diarrhea
- Dizziness
- Headache
- Swelling of feet or lower legs
- Blurred vision
- Sweating
- Weight loss
- Acid or sour stomach
- Loss of strength
- Body pain
- Scaly skin
This medicine may increase the risk of lymphoma and other malignancies.
The chances of occurring infections are more in the patients receiving this medicine.
This medicine is not recommended in the patients with a history of liver impairment.
This medicine is not recommended in the patients with a history kidney impairment.
Use with caution in hypertensive patients.
This medicine may increase the levels of potassium in the body and may increase the risk of arrhythmia.