Sulfasalazine Tablet: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Precautions and Alternates

Name: Sulfasalazine Tablet: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Precautions and Alternates
Duration: 5 min 2 s
Description: Sulfasalazine is a prescription anti-inflammatory medicine that has been used since the 1950s. It is available as a generic and under brand names, as a standard tablet and as an enteric-coated, delayed-release tablet. It is a slow-acting disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD), meaning it takes time to build up and start working.

Sulfasalazine Tablet

Generic name	sulfasalazine
Drug class	5-aminosalicylates / Antirheumatic (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug, DMARD); Anti-inflammatory
Forms	Oral tablet, Oral delayed-release (enteric-coated) tablet

Sulfasalazine is a prescription anti-inflammatory medicine that has been used since the 1950s. It is available as a generic and under brand names, as a standard tablet and as an enteric-coated, delayed-release tablet. It is a slow-acting disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD), meaning it takes time to build up and start working.

General information

Follow the prescriber and the leaflet that comes with this medicine.