Sulfadiazine contraindications
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mohamed Moubarak, M.D. [2]
Contraindications
Contraindications
Sulfadiazine is contraindicated in the following circumstances: Hypersensitivity to sulfonamides.
In infants less than 2 months of age (except as adjunctive therapy with pyrimethamine in the treatment of congenital toxoplasmosis).
In pregnancy at term and during the nursing period, because sulfonamides cross the placenta and are excreted in breast milk and may cause kernicterus.[1]
References
References
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Adapted from the FDA Package Insert.
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