Advice to Patients
- Importance of immediately informing clinician if tightness, pain, pressure, or heaviness in chest, throat, neck, or jaw occurs and of not taking rizatriptan again until evaluated by clinician.
- Importance of taking rizatriptan exactly as prescribed.
- Importance of providing patient a copy of manufacturer’s patient information.
- Risk of dizziness, somnolence, and fatigue; importance of exercising caution when driving or operating machinery.
- For patients taking orally disintegrating tablets, importance of not removing the blister from the outer pouch until just before administering dose; importance of opening blister pack with dry hands and of placing tablet on tongue to dissolve and be swallowed with saliva.
- Importance of informing patients with phenylketonuria that orally disintegrating tablets contain aspartame.
- Importance of informing clinicians of existing or contemplated concomitant therapy, including prescription and OTC drugs and herbal supplements, as well as any concomitant illnesses (e.g., cardiovascular disease).
- Importance of informing patients of risk of serotonin syndrome with concurrent use of rizatriptan and an SSRI or SNRI. Importance of seeking immediate medical attention if symptoms of serotonin syndrome develop.
- Importance of women informing clinicians if they are or plan to become pregnant or plan to breast-feed.
- Importance of informing patients of other important precautionary information. (See Cautions.)
Preparations
Rizatriptan Benzoate
| Routes | Dosage Forms | Strengths | Brand Names | Manufacturer |
|---|
| Oral | Tablets | 5 mg (of rizatriptan) |
Maxalt® | Merck |
| | 10 mg (of rizatriptan) |
Maxalt® | Merck |
| Tablets, orally disintegrating | 5 mg (of rizatriptan) |
Maxalt-MLT® (with aspartame) | Merck |
| | 10 mg (of rizatriptan) |
Maxalt-MLT® (with aspartame) | Merck |
Comparative Pricing
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| Maxalt 10MG Tablets | MERCK HUMAN HEALTH | 12/$255.51 or 24/$487.92 |
| Maxalt 5MG Tablets | MERCK HUMAN HEALTH | 6/$107.44 or 18/$308.6 |
| Maxalt 5MG Tablets | MERCK HUMAN HEALTH | 12/$265.99 or 24/$517.97 |
| Maxalt-MLT 10MG TBDP | MERCK HUMAN HEALTH | 6/$125.99 or 18/$355.98 |
| Maxalt-MLT 5MG TBDP | MERCK HUMAN HEALTH | 3/$58.29 or 9/$174.87 |
AHFS Drug Information. © Copyright, 1959-2008, Selected Revisions September 2007. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc., 7272 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children,
never share your medicines with others, and use this medication only for the indication prescribed.
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