Accutane Information

Not many people know the dangers of Accutane. It is important that you educate yourself about specific ingredients that are found in products to be used on and in your body. For instance, Accutane is used in skin care products prescribed by physicians for treating their patient’s nodular acne. These products are usually used when other forms of acne medications and antibiotics have failed to work. Accutane is also sometimes used for other treatments.

Why You Should Learn About Accutane

For one, Accutane is known to have severe, life-threatening effects on unborn children. In many cases, it causes birth defects. Before being prescribed a medication with Accutane, child-bearing-aged women are required to sign two forms that require them to use birth control and have pregnancy tests regularly before and after usage of isotretinoin. iPlegde is a special program where Accutane is available. You should never try to purchase Accutane on your own through the Internet or outside of America. Also, if you are taking isotretinoin, you should not take supplements with vitamin A. Do not donate blood while you’re on Accutane and 30 days after you stop using it.

Talk to Your Health Care Provider

Before you begin using a medication with Accutane, you should speak with your doctor. Because of the dangers Accutane poses, your health care provider can advise you on whether you should or shouldn’t take Accutane. As mentioned, you are required to sign forms acknowledging you know the side effects and dangers associated with its use. You should not use Accutane products if you are allergic to parabens or isotretinoin, or if you’re pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

Some prior health conditions can make Accutane use dangerous, such as:

•Osteoporosis
•Diabetes
•Asthma
•Heart diseas, triglycerides and high cholesterol
•History of depression or mental illness within yourself or family members
•Anorexia or other eating disorder
•Liver disease

If you consume Accutane even just once while pregnant can cause life-threatening birth defects in the unborn child’s ears, eyes, skull, face brain or heart. If you are a woman, you are in child-bearing age, unless you have had a hysterectomy (removal of your uterus and ovaries) or have been in menopause for at least one year. You will be given a pregnancy test before you begin taking Accutane and before each prescription is refilled, then after your last dosage of Accutane and 30 days after that last dosage. Women of child-bearing age are also required to use specific types of birth control, which is to start a month before you use Accutane, up until one month after you stop using it. Do not breast feed while on Accutane (it has not been proven to pass through breast milk, so just in case don’t do it).