Question

A patient applied to your pharmacy with a prescription includes vaginal tablet for her vaginal candidiasis. You refill her prescription. She returned to your pharmacy one week later and told that her problem still continues and these tablets cause pain and burning in her stomach. What is the problem and how you can correct this situation?

Answer 1

Vaginal candiditis is significantly treated with the fluconazole, the antifungal medication. In this fluconazole tablet is inserted in vaigina or taken orally single tablet. It's common side effect is abdominal or stomach pain, burning and irritation while insertion of the tablet in the vaginal route. If after treatment the infection is not cured, it is advised to take follow up by doctor to assess again whether it's candiditis means yeast infection or anything else.

Then prescribe the medication accordingly.