Enbrel Side Effects

• redness, itching, pain, or swelling at the site of the Enbrel injection
• headache
• nausea
• vomiting
• heartburn
• stomach pain
• weakness
• cough

• seizures
• bruising
• bleeding
• pale skin
• blistering skin
• rash
• hives
• itching
• swelling of the eyes, face, lips, tongue, throat, arms, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs
• difficulty breathing or swallowing
• rash on the face and arms that worsens in the sun
• numbness or tingling
• vision problems
• weakness in the arms or legs
• dizziness
• red, scaly patches or pus-filled bumps on the skin

Warnings & Recalls for Enbrel

• Tell your doctor if you’re allergic to etanercept, which is the active ingredient in Enbrel.
• Tell your doctor what prescriptions and nonprescription medications that you’re taking including vitamins and supplements while taking Enbrel.  Be sure to mention Orencia, Kineret, Imuran, Dexamethasone, Medrol, Prelone, Cytoxan, Prednisone or Rheumatrex.
• Using Enbrel injections may decrease your ability to fight infection and increase the risk that you will get a serious infection, including severe viral, bacterial, or fungal infections that spread throughout the body. Tell your doctor if you often get any type of infection or if you think you may have any type of infection now. This includes minor infections (such as open cuts or sores), infections that come and go (such as cold sores) and chronic infections that do not go away. Tell your doctor about any immune disorders that you’ve had such as diabetes, HIV or AIDS.  Signs of infection include weakness, sweating, difficulty with breath, cough, sore throat, bloody mucus, weight loss, fever, tiredness, diarrhea, stomach pain, warm, red or painful skin, or flu-like symptoms.
• Tell your doctor if you’ve ever had seizures or diseases that affects your nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, optic neuritis, bleeding problems, liver disease or heart failure.
• Tell your doctor if you’re pregnant or plan on pregnancy or are nursing while taking Enbrel.  If you inject Enbrel while pregnant, be sure to talk to your doctor as your baby might need to receive certain vaccines later than usual.
• If you are having surgery, including dental surgery, tell the doctor or dentist that you are using Enbrel.
• Talk to your doctor about vaccines that you’ve had or plan on getting while taking Enbrel. If possible, your child should be given all vaccinations needed for children of his or her age before beginning treatment.
• You can be infected with tuberculosis or hepatitis B but you might not have any symptoms of the disease. In this case, Enbrel injections may increase the risk that your infection will become more serious and you will develop symptoms. If necessary, your doctor will give you medicine to treat this infection before you begin using Enbrel injection.
• If you become infected with chickenpox, call your doctor.

Enbrel Treatment and Use

Enbrel | Etarnercept is a drug that is used to treat autoimmune diseases by interfering with TNF (tumor necrosis factor) while acting as a TNF inhibitor.  It is co-marketed in the US by both Pfizer and Amgen and sales had reached a record $3.3 billion in 2010.  According to research, it is used to treat rheumatoid, juvenile rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, akylosing spondylitis and plaque psoriasis.  It comes either in a dry powder that’s meant to be injected as a solution or as a soluble injectable fluid.  Etanercept is a product of recombinant DNA, or a DNA construct, specifically engineered to treat these autoimmune disorders.  In the US, it had first gained FDA approval in 1998.

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