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Increase Your Awareness with Basic Facts about Dupixent (Dupilumab injection)
Published January 28, 2025
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Basic Facts about Dupilumab Injection
Brand name: Dupixent®
Dupilumab injection is in a class of medication called monoclonal antibodies.
It works by stopping the action of certain substances in the body that cause inflammation.
Dupixent® (Dupilumab injection) is used for the following:
- To treat symptoms of eczema
- To prevent wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness due to certain types of asthma
- To treat chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis
- To treat eosinophilic esophagitis
- To treat prurigo nodularis
- Dupilumab injection may be prescribed for other uses
How is propolis typically used?
- By adults by mouth daily no longer than 13 months (healthcare provider should give you a dose best for your condition)
- In products such as creams, lotions, ointments, gels, mouth rinses, chewing gum, cosmetics, cough syrup, lip balm, throat lozenges, throat sprays, toothpaste
What side effects can be caused by Dupixent® (Dupilumab injections):
- redness or pain at the injection site
- sore throat, runny nose, cough, fever, or other sign of infection
- mouth or lip sores
- toothache
- difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
- facial redness or rash
- dizziness
- diarrhea
- muscle pain
Some side effects can be serious. If you experience any of these symptoms, call your healthcare provider immediately or get emergency medical treatment:
- new or worsening eye problems
- rash, shortness of breath, fever, chest pain, feeling of pins and needles, or numbness in arms or legs
- new or worsening joint pain
If you experience any of these symptoms, stop using dupilumab injection and call your healthcare provider immediately or get emergency medical treatment:
- swelling of the face, eyelids, tongue, or throat
- swollen lymph nodes
- difficulty swallowing or breathing
- tightness in the chest or throat
- rapid heartbeat
- itching
- rash
- hives
- fainting, dizziness, or feeling lightheaded
- nausea or vomiting
- stomach cramps
- flat, firm, hot, red and painful skin lumps
- fever
Dupilumab injection may have other side effects. Call your healthcare provider for any unusual symptoms or problems.
Special precautions should be taken while using dupilumab injection (Dupixent®):
- Tell you healthcare provider if you are allergic to dupilumab or any ingredients in dupilumab injection
- Inform your prescriber of prescription or non-prescription medications, vitamins, supplements, herbal products you are taking or plan to take
- Tell your prescriber of any eye problems, herpes zoster, genital herpes, hookworm, roundworm, whipworm, threadworm infection
- Inform your healthcare provider if you have asthma
- Check with your prescriber before receiving any vaccinations
Sources used:
- Medlineplus.gov, National Library of Medicine, Dupilumab injection, accessed January 27, 2025
- Drugs.com, Dupilumab injection, accessed January 27, 2025.
- Duprixent® (Dupilumab injection, accessed January 27, 2025.
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