Last update June 14, 2025
Compatible
We do not have alternatives for Rifamycin Sodium since it is relatively safe.
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
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Rifamycin Sodium in other languages or writings:
Rifamycin Sodium belongs to these groups or families:
Main tradenames from several countries containing Rifamycin Sodium in its composition:
| Variable | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Oral Bioavail. | < 0.1 | % |
| Molecular weight | 720 | daltons |
| Protein Binding | 80 - 95 | % |
| VD | 1.46 | l/Kg |
| pKa | 7.09 | - |
| T½ | 1 - 3 | hours |
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An antibacterial agent that is not absorbed when taken orally, used in the treatment of traveller's diarrhoea and topically in eye and ear infections. Intramuscular and intravenous formulations are also available.
At the date of the last update, no data on its excretion in breast milk had been published.
Its pharmacokinetic data (large volume of distribution, moderately high molecular weight, high percentage of plasma protein binding and, above all, its zero oral bioavailability) make it difficult or impossible for it to pass into breast milk in clinically significant amounts.
In addition, its zero oral bioavailability prevents it from passing into the infant's plasma from ingested breast milk.