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Other Medicines
Medicines that do not sit neatly in a single group — from smoking-cessation aids and antidotes to eye drops and medicines for prostate and bladder problems.
This page lists all 37 of them in the guide. Open any medicine for its uses, common side effects, major cautions and kidney note.
| Medicine | Brand names | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Adalimumab | Humira | Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune arthritis types; Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis |
| Alfuzosin | Uroxatral | Urinary symptoms from an enlarged prostate; Improving urinary flow in benign prostatic hyperplasia |
| Allopurinol | Zyloprim | Preventing gout attacks; Preventing uric acid kidney stones |
| Benzoyl peroxide | Clearasil, PanOxyl | Acne; Preventing antibiotic resistance when combined with topical antibiotics for acne |
| Brimonidine | Alphagan | Glaucoma and high pressure inside the eye; Eye redness (low-amount over-the-counter drops) |
| Cholecalciferol | Vitamin D3 | Vitamin D deficiency; Bone health, combined with calcium |
| Clobetasol | Temovate, Clobex | Severe eczema and psoriasis; Stubborn inflamed skin conditions needing a very potent steroid |
| Colchicine | Colcrys, Mitigare | Treating and preventing gout attacks; Pericarditis (inflammation around the heart) |
| Cyanocobalamin | Vitamin B12 | Vitamin B12 deficiency; Pernicious anemia |
| Dutasteride | Avodart | Enlarged prostate; Reducing risk of urinary retention and prostate surgery |
| Ergocalciferol | Drisdol, Vitamin D2 | Vitamin D deficiency; Low parathyroid function (hypoparathyroidism) |
| Etanercept | Enbrel | Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune arthritis types; Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis |
| Febuxostat | Uloric | Preventing gout attacks when allopurinol is not suitable; Lowering uric acid in gout |
| Ferrous sulfate | Feosol | Iron deficiency anemia; Preventing iron deficiency in pregnancy |
| Finasteride | Proscar, Propecia | Enlarged prostate; Male pattern hair loss (lower-amount product) |
| Folic acid | Folvite | Preventing neural tube birth defects in pregnancy; Treating folate deficiency |
| Hydroxychloroquine | Plaquenil | Rheumatoid arthritis; Lupus |
| Infliximab | Remicade | Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis; Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune arthritis types |
| Isotretinoin | Accutane, Claravis | Severe acne not responding to other treatments; Severe nodular and scarring acne |
| Latanoprost | Xalatan | Glaucoma; High pressure inside the eye |
| Leflunomide | Arava | Rheumatoid arthritis; Psoriatic arthritis, on specialist advice |
| Magnesium oxide | Mag-Ox | Magnesium supplementation; Heartburn (as an antacid ingredient) |
| Methotrexate | Trexall, Otrexup, Rasuvo | Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases; Psoriasis |
| Mirabegron | Myrbetriq | Overactive bladder with urgency, frequency, and leakage; Neurogenic bladder in children (specific product) |
| Nicotine | Nicoderm, Nicorette | Helping people quit smoking; Reducing withdrawal symptoms during quit attempts |
| Oxybutynin | Ditropan | Overactive bladder with urgency and leakage; Bladder spasms |
| Phentermine | Adipex-P, Lomaira | Short-term weight management in obesity; Short-term appetite suppression combined with diet and activity |
| Phytonadione | Mephyton, Vitamin K1 | Reversing warfarin effect when bleeding or before urgent procedures; Preventing bleeding in newborns (injection at birth) |
| Potassium chloride | Klor-Con, K-Dur | Treating low blood potassium; Preventing low potassium in patients on water pills |
| Probenecid | Probalan | Preventing gout attacks by helping the kidneys release uric acid; Boosting levels of penicillin antibiotics (older use) |
| Solifenacin | Vesicare | Overactive bladder with urgency and leakage; Overactive bladder with frequent urination |
| Tamsulosin | Flomax | Urinary symptoms from an enlarged prostate; Helping some kidney and ureter stones pass |
| Timolol | Timoptic | Glaucoma; High pressure inside the eye |
| Tolterodine | Detrol | Overactive bladder with urgency and leakage; Overactive bladder with frequent urination |
| Tretinoin | Retin-A | Acne; Sun-damaged skin and fine wrinkling (cosmetic products) |
| Triamcinolone | Kenalog, Nasacort | Eczema and other inflamed skin conditions (creams); Joint and soft tissue inflammation (injections) |
| Varenicline | Chantix | Helping people quit smoking; Reducing nicotine craving during quit attempts |
Please note: This page is a patient-education summary, not medical advice, and it deliberately contains no doses. Medicines affect everyone differently — always follow your own prescription and talk to your doctor or pharmacist before starting, stopping or changing any medicine.