Benralizumab (subcutaneous route)
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Benralizumab injection is used together with other medicines to treat severe asthma in patients whose asthma is not controlled with their current asthma medicines. This medicine helps prevent severe asthma attacks (exacerbations) and can improve your breathing. It is also used in patients whose asthma has an eosinophilic phenotype. This medicine will not relieve an asthma attack that has already started. Benralizumab injection is also used to treat eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). Benralizumab helps reduce blood eosinophils, which are a type of white blood cell that may contribute to your asthma. This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription. This product is available in the following dosage forms:
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In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered: Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully. Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of benralizumab injection totreat severe asthmain children younger than 6 years of age and totreat EGPAin children. Safety and efficacy have not been established. Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of benralizumab injection in the elderly. However, elderly patients may be more sensitive to the effects of this medicine than younger adults. There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding. Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine. Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco. The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
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A doctor or other trained health professional will give you this medicine. It is given as a shot under your skin, usually in the upper arm, stomach, or thigh once every 4 weeks for the first 3 doses, then once every 8 weeks. It may sometimes be given at home to patients who do not need to be in the hospital or clinic. If you are using this medicine at home, your doctor or nurse will teach you how to prepare and inject the medicine. Be sure that you understand how to use this medicine. If you use this medicine at home, you will be shown the body areas where this shot can be given. Use a different body area each time you give yourself a shot. Keep track of where you give each shot to make sure you rotate body areas. This will help prevent skin problems from the injections. Do not inject into scars, moles, or skin areas that are damaged, red, bruised, tender, scaly, hard, or not intact. This medicine comes in 2 forms: aprefilled syringeandFasenra® Pen™ autoinjector. Theprefilled syringeis given by a nurse or other trained health professional. This medicine comes with a patient information leaflet and patient instructions. Read and follow these instructions carefully. Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions about: Allow the Fasenra® Pen™ autoinjector to warm to room temperature for 30 minutes. Do not warm it by using a heat source or in any other way (eg, microwave or hot water). Do not shake. Check the liquid in theautoinjector. It should be clear and colorless to slightly yellow. Do not use it if it is cloudy, discolored, or has large particles in it. Do not use the autoinjector if it has been frozen, damaged, or dropped. The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so. The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine. Call your doctor or pharmacist for instructions. Keep out of the reach of children. Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed. Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use. Store in the refrigerator. Do not freeze. Protect this medicine from direct light. You may keep it at room temperature for up to 14 days. Throw away if it has been stored at room temperature for more than 14 days. Throw away used syringes in a hard, closed container where the needles cannot poke through. Keep this container away from children and pets.
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