Drug details

Dupixent (dupilumab injection)

type of Interleukin Inhibitors

Dupixent (dupilumab) injection is aninterleukin-4 receptor alpha-antagonist indicated for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis whose disease is not adequately controlled with topical prescription therapies or when those therapies are not advisable; as an add-on maintenance treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 6 years and older with moderate-to-severe asthma characterized by an eosinophilic phenotype or with oral corticosteroid dependent asthma; as an add-on maintenance treatment in adult patients with inadequately controlled chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP), and for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older, weighing at least 40 kg, with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).

The drug is often used to treat Asthma .

This drug may have the following side effects:

• headache,
• new onset or worsening eye symptoms,
• injection site reactions,
• pink eye (conjunctivitis),
• cold,
• hair loss, and
• outward eyelid rotation (cicatrical extropion)

The following drugs are related to Dupixent, either as a replacement or used together:

• Cibinqo (abrocitinib tablets)
• Differin Gel .3% (adapalene)
• Differin Cream (adapalene cream)
• Differin Gel .1% (adapalene gel)
• Differin Lotion .1 (adapalene lotion .1%)
• Adbry (tralokinumab-ldrm for injection)
• Airsupra (albuterol and budesonide inhalation aerosol, for oral inhalation)
• Zithranol Cream (anthralin microcrystalline encapsulated cream)
• Avage (tazarotene)
• Qvar Redihaler (beclomethasone dipropionate hfa inhalation aerosol)
• Beser (fluticasone propionate lotion)
• Bryhali (halobetasol propionate lotion)
• Cordran Cream (clurandrenolide cream)
• Cordran Lotion (flurandrenolide lotion)
• Cordran Tape (flurandrenolide tape)
• Duobrii (halobetasol propionate and tazarotene lotion)
• Elidel (pimecrolimus cream)
• Ultravate Cream (halobetasol propionate)
• Ultravate Ointment (halobetasol propionate ointment)
• Phisohex (hexachlorophene)
• Pandel (hydrocortisone probutate cream)
• Opzelura (ruxolitinib cream)
• Protopic (tacrolimus)
• Tezspire (tezepelumab-ekko injection, for subcutaneous use)