Precautions
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Your doctor will check your or your child's progress closely while you are receiving this medicine. This will allow your doctor to see if the medicine is working properly and to decide if you or your child should continue to receive it. Blood and urine tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.
Using this medicine while you are pregnant can harm your unborn baby. If you can get pregnant, your doctor may do tests to make sure you are not pregnant before starting treatment. Use an effective form of birth control to keep from getting pregnant during treatment and for at least 2 months after the last dose of this medicine. If you think you have become pregnant while using the medicine, tell your doctor right away.
This medicine may cause serious infusion-related reactions, which can be life-threatening and require immediate medical attention. Tell your doctor right away if you or your child start to have chest tightness, cough, trouble breathing, hives, itching, skin rash, lightheadedness, dizziness, or fainting, or swelling of the face, eyes, lips, mouth, or tongue.
Naxitamab-gqgk may cause nerve pain (eg, pain in the stomach, bone, neck, legs, or arms). Tell your doctor right away if the pain becomes severe.
This medicine may cause transverse myelitis (swelling of the spinal cord). Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have back, leg, or stomach pain, muscle weakness in the arms or legs, or bladder and bowel problems.
This medicine may cause reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLS). Tell your doctor if you have severe headache, changes in vision, fast, pounding, or uneven heartbeat, seizures, unusual drowsiness, dullness, tiredness, weakness, or feeling of sluggishness.
This medicine may cause peripheral neuropathy. Check with your doctor right away if you or your child are having burning, numbness, tingling, or painful sensations in the arms, hands, legs, or feet.
Check with your doctor immediately if blurred vision, difficulty in reading, or any other change in vision occurs during or after treatment. Your doctor may want you or your child to have your eyes checked by an ophthalmologist (eye doctor).
This medicine may cause bladder problems (eg, prolonged urinary retention). Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have a decrease in urine volume, decreased frequency of urination, difficulty in passing urine, or painful urination.
Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have chest pain or discomfort, fast heartbeat, fever and chills, or trouble breathing. These maybe symptoms of myocarditis (swelling of the heart).
This medicine may cause hypertension (high blood pressure). Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have blurred vision, dizziness, nervousness, headache, pounding in the ears, or slow or fast heartbeat.
Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting may occur, especially when you get up from a lying or sitting position. Getting up slowly may help. If this problem continues or gets worse, check with your doctor.
Portions of this document last updated: May 01, 2024
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