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Written By Santoshini Reddy G , M Pharmacy
Reviewed By Dr Aneela Siddabathuni , MPharma., PhD

Kafaxzim Tablet is used to treat bacterial infections in children. It contains Cefixime, which works by inhibiting cell wall synthesis; it weakens and destroys the bacterial cell wall, leading to death. As a result, it helps to treat bacterial infections. Kafaxzim Tablet may cause side effects, including diarrhoea, nausea, loose stools, abdominal pain, dyspepsia, indigestion, and vomiting.

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Composition :

CEFIXIME-200MG

Manufacturer/Marketer :

Maestro Healthcare Ltd

Consume Type :

ORAL

Return Policy :

Not Returnable

Expires on or after :

About Kafaxzim Tablet

Kafaxzim Tablet is used to treat susceptible organisms (bacteria)-caused infections of the ear, nose, sinuses (sinusitis), throat (tonsillitis, pharyngitis), chest and lungs (bronchitis, pneumonia) and urinary system (cystitis and kidney infections).

Kafaxzim Tablet contains Cefixime, which works by inhibiting cell wall synthesis. In turn, Kafaxzim Tablet weakens and destroys the bacterial cell wall, leading to death. As a result, Kafaxzim Tablet helps to treat bacterial infections.

Kafaxzim Tablet should be used under the supervision of a doctor or health professional. Use it regularly at evenly spaced intervals as per the schedule prescribed by your doctor. Like all medicines, Kafaxzim Tablet may cause some common side effects, including diarrhoea, nausea, loose stools, abdominal pain, dyspepsia, indigestion, and vomiting. Most of these side effects do not require medical attention and resolve gradually over time. However, if the side effects are persistent or you notice any unusual symptoms developing in the child, inform your doctor immediately.

Inform your doctor about your child's entire medical history. Other drugs or supplements should not be combined with Kafaxzim Tablet unless prescribed by a doctor. Even if your child is feeling better, do not miss any dose and complete the entire course of medication. Stopping the medication too soon may cause the infection to recur or worsen.

Uses of Kafaxzim Tablet

Kafaxzim Tablet is used in treatment of Bacterial Infections. The detailed uses of Kafaxzim Tablet are as follows:

  • Treatment of Bacterial Infections:Kafaxzim Tablet is widely used to combat bacterial infections such as respiratory tract infections, and urinary tract infections. It functions by inhibiting bacterial growth, aiding recovery.
  • Management of Otitis Media:Kafaxzim Tablet may be prescribed for otitis media, a middle ear infection common in children, to alleviate pain and discomfort associated with the condition.
  • Treatment of Sinusitis:Kafaxzim Tablet proves effective in treating sinusitis, which involves inflammation of the sinus cavities caused by bacterial infections. It helps relieve symptoms such as nasal congestion and pressure.

Directions for Use

  • Kafaxzim Tablet can be given to your child with or without food.
  • It can usually be given once or twice a day or as prescribed by your doctor.
  • Dissolve the tablet in the prescribed amount of boiled and cooled water and have your child consume it immediately.
  • Do not crush, chew, or let your child swallow the medicine whole.
  • Do not handle Kafaxzim Tablet with wet hands.

Medicinal Benefits

Kafaxzim Tablet is a short-term medication for a wide range of bacterial infections. It prevents the growth of bacteria by stopping the formation of a protective covering, which is vital for its growth. It prevents and treats bacterial infections like ear, nose, sinuses (sinusitis), throat (tonsillitis, pharyngitis), chest and lungs (bronchitis, pneumonia) and urinary system (cystitis and kidney infections).

How Kafaxzim Tablet Works

Kafaxzim Tablet contains Cefixime, which works by inhibiting cell wall synthesis. In turn, Kafaxzim Tablet weakens and destroys the bacterial cell wall, leading to death. As a result, Kafaxzim Tablet helps to treat bacterial infections.

Storage

• Store in a cool and dry place away from sunlight.• Keep Kafaxzim Tablet out of reach and sight of children.• Non cold chain - To be stored in cool places at 10ºC to 25ºC or below 30ºC.
Side effects of Kafaxzim Tablet
To prevent, manage, and treat Constipation caused by medication usage, follow these steps:
  • Preventing Vomiting (Before it Happens)
  • Take medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. This can help minimize side effects, including vomiting.
  • Having a small meal before taking your medication can help reduce nausea and vomiting.
  • Talk to your doctor about taking anti-nausea medication along with your prescribed medication.
  • Managing Vomiting (If it Happens)
  • Try taking ginger in the form of tea, ale, or candy to help alleviate nausea and vomiting.
  • What to Do if Vomiting Persists
  • Consult your doctor if vomiting continues or worsens, consult the doctor for guidance on adjusting your medication or additional treatment.
Here are the precise steps to cope with diarrhoea caused by medication usage:
  • Inform Your Doctor: Notify your doctor immediately about your diarrhoea symptoms. This allows them to adjust your medication or provide guidance on managing side effects.
  • Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of fluids to replace lost water and electrolytes. Choose water, clear broth, and electrolyte-rich drinks. Avoid carbonated or caffeinated beverages to effectively rehydrate your body.
  • Follow a Bland Diet: Eat easy-to-digest foods to help firm up your stool and settle your stomach. Try incorporating bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, plain crackers, and boiled vegetables into your diet.
  • Avoid Trigger Foods: Steer clear of foods that can worsen diarrhoea, such as spicy, fatty, or greasy foods, high-fibre foods, and dairy products (especially if you're lactose intolerant).
  • Practice Good Hygiene: Maintain good hygiene to prevent the spread of infection. To stay healthy, wash your hands frequently, clean and disinfect surfaces regularly, and avoid exchanging personal belongings with others.
  • Take Anti-Diarrheal Medications: If your doctor advises, anti-diarrheal medications such as loperamide might help manage diarrhoea symptoms. Always follow your doctor's directions.
  • Keep track of your diarrhoea symptoms. If they don't get better or worse or are accompanied by severe stomach pain, blood, or dehydration signs (like extreme thirst or dark urine), seek medical help.
Overcome Medication-Induced Nausea: A 9-Step Plan
  • Inform your doctor about the nausea and discuss possible alternatives to the medication or adjustments to the dosage.
  • Divide your daily food intake into smaller, more frequent meals to reduce nausea.
  • Opt for bland, easily digestible foods like crackers, toast, plain rice, bananas, and applesauce.
  • Avoid certain foods that can trigger nausea, such as fatty, greasy, spicy, and smelly foods.
  • Drink plenty of fluids, such as water, clear broth, or electrolyte-rich beverages like coconut water or sports drinks.
  • Use ginger (tea, ale, or candies) to help relieve nausea.
  • Get adequate rest and also avoid strenuous activities that can worsen nausea.
  • Talk to your doctor about taking anti-nausea medication if your nausea is severe.
  • Record when your nausea occurs, what triggers it, and what provides relief to help you identify patterns and manage your symptoms more effectively.
Here are the precise steps to cope with diarrhoea caused by medication usage:
  • Inform Your Doctor: Notify your doctor immediately about your diarrhoea symptoms. This allows them to adjust your medication or provide guidance on managing side effects.
  • Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of fluids to replace lost water and electrolytes. Choose water, clear broth, and electrolyte-rich drinks. Avoid carbonated or caffeinated beverages to effectively rehydrate your body.
  • Follow a Bland Diet: Eat easy-to-digest foods to help firm up your stool and settle your stomach. Try incorporating bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, plain crackers, and boiled vegetables into your diet.
  • Avoid Trigger Foods: Steer clear of foods that can worsen diarrhoea, such as spicy, fatty, or greasy foods, high-fibre foods, and dairy products (especially if you're lactose intolerant).
  • Practice Good Hygiene: Maintain good hygiene to prevent the spread of infection. To stay healthy, wash your hands frequently, clean and disinfect surfaces regularly, and avoid exchanging personal belongings with others.
  • Take Anti-Diarrheal Medications: If your doctor advises, anti-diarrheal medications such as loperamide might help manage diarrhoea symptoms. Always follow your doctor's directions.
  • Keep track of your diarrhoea symptoms. If they don't get better or worse or are accompanied by severe stomach pain, blood, or dehydration signs (like extreme thirst or dark urine), seek medical help.
  • Drink water or other clear fluids.
  • To prevent worsening of pain, limit intake of tea, coffee, or alcohol.
  • Include bland foods like rice, toast, crackers, and rice in your diet.
  • Avoid lying down immediately after eating as it may cause indigestion or heartburn.
  • Avoid acidic and spicy food as it may cause indigestion.
Here are the step-by-step strategies to manage the side effects of "indigestion" caused by medication usage:
  • Take medications with food (if recommended): It can help prevent stomach distress and indigestion.
  • Eat smaller, more frequent meals: Divide daily food intake into smaller, more frequent meals to ease digestion.
  • Avoid trigger foods: Identify and avoid foods that trigger indigestion, such as spicy, fatty, or acidic foods.
  • Stay upright after eating: Sit or stand upright for at least 1-2 hours after eating to prevent stomach acid from flowing into the oesophagus.
  • Avoid carbonated drinks: Avoid drinking carbonated beverages, such as soda or beer, which can worsen indigestion.
  • Manage stress: To alleviate indigestion, engage in stress-reducing activities like deep breathing exercises or meditation.
  • Consult a doctor if needed: If indigestion worsens or persists, consult a healthcare professional to adjust the medication regimen or explore alternative treatments.
Dealing with Medication-Induced Headache:
  • Hydrate your body: Drink enough water to prevent dehydration and headaches.
  • Calm Your Mind: Deep breathing and meditation can help you relax and relieve stress.
  • Rest and Recharge: Sleep for 7-8 hours to reduce headache triggers.
  • Take rest: lie down in a quiet, dark environment.
  • Cold or warm compresses can help reduce tension.
  • Stay Upright: Maintain good posture to keep symptoms from getting worse.
  • To treat headaches naturally, try acupuncture or massage therapy.
  • Over-the-counter pain relievers include acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
  • Prescription Assistance: Speak with your doctor about more substantial drug alternatives.
  • Severe Headaches: Seek emergency medical assistance for sudden, severe headaches.
  • Frequent Headaches: If you get reoccurring headaches, consult your doctor.
  • Headaches with Symptoms: Seek medical attention if your headaches include fever, disorientation, or weakness.

Drug Warnings

The presence of other medical problems or using other medications may affect the use of this medicine. So, before using Kafaxzim Tablet , let your doctor know about all your children's medical conditions, sensitivities, and all medications used.

Drug-Drug Interactions

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CefiximeCholera, live attenuated
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CefiximeCholera, live attenuated
Severe
How does the drug interact with Kafaxzim Tablet:
Co-administration of Kafaxzim Tablet with Cholera vaccine may reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine.

How to manage the interaction:
Talk to your doctor before receiving the cholera vaccine if you are currently being treated with Kafaxzim Tablet or have been treated within the last 14 days. To ensure adequate vaccine response, you should not receive cholera vaccine until at least 14 days after you complete your antibiotic therapy. Do not discontinue the medication without consulting a doctor.

Drug-Food Interactions

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No Drug - Food interactions found in our database. Some may be unknown. Consult your doctor for what to avoid during medication.

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Diet & Lifestyle Advise

  • It would be best to give probiotics after taking the full course of Kafaxzim Tablet to restore some healthy bacteria in the intestine that may have been killed.
  • Taking probiotics after antibiotic treatment can reduce the risk of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. Certain fermented foods like yoghurt, cheese, sauerkraut and kimchi can help restore the intestine's good bacteria.
  • The BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast) can help with diarrhoea from antibiotics.
  • Give plenty of water to the child. Staying hydrated is important, especially when you’re child is sick.
  • Eating a broad range of plant-based foods such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, pulses and wholegrains help to build a healthy gut microbiome.
  • Avoid feeding too many calcium-enriched foods and drinks because they may interfere with the functioning of Kafaxzim Tablet .

Habit Forming

No

Therapeutic Class

ANTI- BACTERIALS
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Alcohol

Not applicable

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Pregnancy

Not applicable

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Breast Feeding

Not applicable

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Driving

Not applicable

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Liver

Caution

Inform your doctor if your child has liver problems. Your doctor will weigh the benefits and potential risks before prescribing it.

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Kidney

Caution

Inform your doctor if your child has kidney problems. Your doctor will weigh the benefits and potential risks before prescribing it.

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Children

Safe if prescribed

Kafaxzim Tablet is safe for children if prescribed by the doctor. Your paediatrician may prescribe the dose based on the child's condition and age.

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Heart

Kafaxzim Tablet is generally considered safe for children, including those with heart conditions, but only under medical supervision.

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Geriatrics

Not applicable

Kafaxzim Tablet is specifically for children use and is not meant for geriatric patients.

Have a query?

FAQs

Kafaxzim Tablet is used to treat bacterial infections of the ear, nose, sinuses (sinusitis), throat (tonsillitis, pharyngitis), chest and lungs (bronchitis, pneumonia) and urinary system (cystitis and kidney infections).

Kafaxzim Tablet comprises Cefixime. The bactericidal action of Cefixime is due to the inhibition of cell wall synthesis. In turn, the Kafaxzim Tablet weakens and destroys the bacterial cell wall, leading to death. As a result, Kafaxzim Tablet helps to treat bacterial infections.

Kafaxzim Tablet can cause diarrhoea, which may be a sign of a new infection. If your child has diarrhoea that is watery or bloody, call your paediatrician. Do not use anti-diarrhoea medicine unless your paediatrician.

Yes, Treating urinary tract infection (UTI) by Kafaxzim Tablet may be a good alternative. However, it should be taken under the supervision of a healthcare professional.

Kafaxzim Tablet is active against a very wide spectrum of bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes (the cause of strep throat), Hemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, E. coli, Klebsiella, Proteus mirabilis, Salmonella, Shigella, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

No, it does not treat colds, flu, or other virus infections. It is meant for only specific bacterial infections.

Kafaxzim Tablet was effective in the treatment of bacterial sinus infections in adults and was well tolerated.

Country of origin

India

Manufacturer/Marketer address

Kailash Industrial Complex, D-41, Vikhroli West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400079
Other Info - KAF0032

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