Arcoxia 120 mg

Arcoxia is used to treat acute and chronic osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, acute gouty arthritis, to relieve of chronic musculoskeletal pain. It contains etoricoxib, a selective inhibitor of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), which blocks the formation of prostaglandins, substances responsible for inflammation, pain and fever symptoms. Arcoxia has no effect on platelet function and gastrointestinal mucosa.

Dosage and directions
Take the tablets orally with a glass of water with or without a meal. The recommended dose to treat osteoarthritis is 60 mg once daily. To treat rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis take 90 mg once daily. For acute gouty arthritis take 120 mg one time a day. The treatment cannot continue longer than eight days if the daily dose is 120 mg a day. Average therapeutic dose to treat pain is 60 mg taken one time. Take exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Do not exceed the recommended dose.

Contraindications
Hypersensitivity to the components of the drug, infancy, pregnancy and breastfeeding, bronchial asthma, recurrent nasal polyposis, or paranasal sinuses and intolerance of aspirin and other NSAIDs (also in history), ulcers and erosive changes in gastric mucosal or duodenum, gastrointestinal bleeding, cerebrovascular or any other kind of bleeding, acute inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), hemophilia and other clotting disorders, severe heart failure, severe liver failure or actual disease of liver, severe kidney failure, serious kidney diseases, confirmed hyperkalemia, period after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), peripheral vascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, symptomatic coronary artery disease, stable high blood pressure accompanied by uncontrolled hypertension.

Side effects
The most common side effects are: swelling of the legs, ankles or feet, sickness, nausea, vomiting, heartburn, indigestion, uncomfortable feeling or pain in the stomach, diarrhea, high blood pressure, dizziness, headache.