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Fluconazole Tablet

Fluconazole is an antifungal medicine. It’s used to treat infections caused by different kinds of fungus.

The most common cause of fungal infections is a yeast called candida.

Fluconazole is used to treat many infections caused by candida including:

• thrush in men and women, such as vaginal thrush, skin irritation on the head of the penis (balanitis), and thrush in the mouth (oral thrush)
• infections in your blood or elsewhere in your body

Fluconazole is also used to treat a brain infection called cryptococcal meningitis. This is caused by a fungus called cryptococcus.

Fluconazole can also be used to prevent a fungal infection developing. It is only prescribed if you are likely to get this sort of infection. This includes people who:

• keep getting vaginal thrush
• have a weakened immune system
• have had a bone marrow transplant
• have HIV
• are at risk of getting cryptococcal meningitis

Fluconazole is available as capsules or a liquid that you swallow.

It also comes as an injection, but this is usually given in hospital.

Fluconazole is usually prescribed for you by a doctor. You can also buy it from a pharmacy for vaginal thrush or balanitis.