Hydroxyurea is additionally used to decrease the recurrence of excruciating emergencies and lessen the requirement for blood transfusions in patients with sickle cell anemia (an acquired blood issue in which the red platelets are unusually molded [shaped like a sickle] and can't dispatch enough oxygen to all parts of the body). Hydrea is in a class of prescriptions called antimetabolites. It treats malignancy by abating or ceasing the development of tumor cells in your body. It treats sickle cell frailty by avoiding arrangement of sickle-formed red platelets.

Utilization headings : Hydrea

Hydrea comes as a capsule used orally. It is taken once every day. At the point when it is used to treat certain sorts of disease, it might be taken once every third day. Take this medicine precisely as coordinated.

Your doctor may need to defer your treatment or change your dosage of hydroxyurea relying upon your reaction to treatment and any symptoms that you may encounter. Converse with your doctor about how you are feeling amid your treatment.

Swallow down the capsules; don't part, bite, or pulverize them.

You ought to wear elastic or latex gloves when you handle the situations so that your skin does not come into contact with the containers. On the off chance that the powder from a case spills, wipe it up instantly with a moist dispensable towel.

Before taking Hydrea

Tell your specialist and drug specialist if you are susceptible to hydroxyurea, whatever other pharmaceuticals, or any of the dormant fixings in Hydrea capsules.

tell your specialist and drug specialist what medication and nonprescription meds, vitamins, nourishing supplements, and home produced items you are taking or plan to take. Make certain to specify any of the accompanying: certain drugs for HIV (human immunodeficiency infection) or (AIDS, for example, didanosine (Videx), indinavir (Crixivan) and stavudine (Zerit); interferon (Actimmune, Avonex, Betaseron, Intron An, Infergen, and others); solutions that stifle the safe framework, for example, azathioprine (Imuran), cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune), methotrexate (Rheumatrex), sirolimus (Rapamune), and tacrolimus (Prograf); probenecid; or sulfinpyrazone (Anturane). Your specialist may need to change the dosages of your pharmaceuticals or screen you precisely for symptoms.

tell your specialist on the off chance that you have human immunodeficiency infection (HIV) or (AIDS); if you are being treated with or have ever been treated with radiation treatment or malignancy chemotherapy; or on the off chance that you possess kidney or liver ailment.

Tell your doctor if you're pregnant, or preparing to wind up pregnant, or are breast bolstering.

Conceivable Side effects : Hydrea

Hydrea may bring about reactions. Tell your specialist if any of these side effects are severe or don't leave:

• sickness
• heaving
• diarrhea
• loss of hunger
• weight pick up
• wounds in the mouth and throat
• blockage
• rash
• fair skin
• discombobulation
• cerebral pain
• balding
• obscuring of skin and nails

If you encounter any of these indications, call your doctor instantly or get emergency medical treatment:

• excessive tiredness or shortcoming
• quick pulsation
• shortness of breath
• the continuous pain that starts in the stomach region, however, may spread to the back
• pain, tingling, redness, swelling, rankles, or bruises on the skin
• pain in the upper right part of the stomach
• yellowing of the skin or eyes
• influenza-like side effects
• deadness, smoldering or trembling in the hands or feet
• troublesome or difficult pee
• seizures

Hydroxyurea may bring about other reactions. Call your doctor if you're going through unexpected effects while taking this pharmaceutical.