![]() ![]() In children 12 years of age and older, it’s recommended DUPIXENT be administered by or under supervision of an adult. Do not try to prepare and inject DUPIXENT until you or your caregiver have been trained by your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider will decide if you or your caregiver can inject DUPIXENT. It’s an injection given under the skin (subcutaneous injection). ![]() Use DUPIXENT exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. These are not all possible side effects of DUPIXENT. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. ![]() The most common side effects in patients with eczema include injection site reactions, eye and eyelid inflammation, including redness, swelling, and itching, sometimes with blurred vision, cold sores in your mouth or on your lips, and high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia). Your healthcare provider may stop DUPIXENT if you develop joint symptoms. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or worsening joint symptoms. Some people who use DUPIXENT have had trouble walking or moving due to their joint symptoms, and in some cases needed to be hospitalized. Your healthcare provider may send you to an ophthalmologist for an eye exam if needed. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any new or worsening eye problems, including eye pain or changes in vision, such as blurred vision. Stop using DUPIXENT and tell your healthcare provider or get emergency help right away if you get any of the following signs or symptoms: breathing problems or wheezing, swelling of the face, lips, mouth, tongue, or throat, fainting, dizziness, feeling lightheaded, fast pulse, fever, hives, joint pain, general ill feeling, itching, skin rash, swollen lymph nodes, nausea or vomiting, or cramps in your stomach-area. DUPIXENT can cause allergic reactions that can sometimes be severe. This may cause other symptoms that were controlled by the corticosteroid medicine or other asthma medicine to come back.ĭUPIXENT can cause serious side effects, including: Do not change or stop your corticosteroid medicine or other asthma medicine without talking to your healthcare provider. Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.Įspecially tell your healthcare provider if you are taking oral, topical or inhaled corticosteroid medicines or if you have atopic dermatitis and asthma and use an asthma medicine. It is not known whether DUPIXENT passes into your breast milk. are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.To enroll or get more information call 1-87 or go to. O A pregnancy registry for women who take DUPIXENT during pregnancy collects information about the health of you and your baby. It is not known whether DUPIXENT will harm your unborn baby. are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.You should not receive a “live vaccine” right before and during treatment with DUPIXENT. are scheduled to receive any vaccinations.I don’t really get scared anymore.ĭo not use if you are allergic to dupilumab or to any of the ingredients in DUPIXENT®.īefore using DUPIXENT, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you: I see the injection as something that I just have to do, and it doesn’t freak me out as much as it did in the beginning. I’m the one that cringes with needles, but she does great. I do remember her dad asking, “Are you sure that you’re comfortable with this,” it being an injection under the skin, and she was. I feel like one day I will do it myself, but I think right now assisted injection is better. Ore’s dermatologist trained us on how to do the injection under the skin, and then when we contacted DUPIXENT MyWay, they sent a nurse to the house to give additional training to make sure that we were comfortable giving the injection. I like when my dad does my injection for me. ![]()
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