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What r the side effects of zidovudine ,nevirapine,...these r the drugs used in anti retro viral therapy.plz re

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What r the side effects of zidovudine ,nevirapine,...these r the drugs used in anti retro viral therapy.plz re

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  1. This are the HIV drugs

    The side effects of zidovudine are:

    headache, back pain, malaise, anorexia, constipation, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, join pain, chills, undigest food(dyspepsia), fatigue, jaundice(hyperbilirubinemia or yellow discolouration of skin or mucosa, insomnia, syncope,musculoskeletal pain, myalgia, and neuropathy, and also with rare complication like cardiomyopathy, breast development in man, eye oedema

    mouth ulcer, dysphagia, flatulance, oral pigmentation, anaemia, hepatitis, myositis shortness of breath, hesitancy to urinate and others neurological involvement for example anxiety, confusion, depression, dizziness, loss of mental acuity, mania, paresthesia, seizures, somnolence, vertigo and loss of hearing  

    For Nevirapine

    hepatitis or liver failure, Stevens-Johnson syndrome(a syndrome that usually cause by drugs, an immune complex mediated hypersensitivity that affect the skin and mucosa leading to cell death or necrosis), toxic epidermal necrolysis, and other hypersensitivity reactions.

    Other than that some rash all over the body, fever, malaise, fatigue, blisters, oral ulcer, conjunctivitis, muscle or joint pain, facial swelling, lymphnode enlargement, or renal failure.

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