Alatrofloxacin: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Alatrofloxacin is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Injectable
- Sold as
- Trovan Preservative Free
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every alatrofloxacin product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Trovan Preservative Free.
Alatrofloxacin and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for alatrofloxacin: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadAlatrofloxacin is no longer marketed in the US. No information is available on the clinical use of alatrofloxacin during breastfeeding. Fluoroquinolones have traditionally not been used in infants because of concern about adverse effects on the infants' developing joints. However, recent studies indicate little risk. The calcium in milk might prevent absorption of the small amounts of fluoroquinolones in milk, but insufficient data exist to prove or disprove this assertion. Use of alatrofloxacin is acceptable in nursing mothers with monitoring of the infant for effects on the gastrointestinal flora, such as diarrhea or candidiasis (thrush, diaper rash). However, it is preferable to use an alternate drug for which safety information is available.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised May 15, 2025. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about alatrofloxacin
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 15 reports naming alatrofloxacin, and the FDA flagged 73% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- dermatitis5 reports
- liver function test abnormal4 reports
- rash erythematous4 reports
- aspartate aminotransferase increased2 reports
- blood alkaline phosphatase increased2 reports
- blood bilirubin increased2 reports
- blood pressure decreased2 reports
- cholestasis2 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean alatrofloxacin caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take alatrofloxacin with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run alatrofloxacin against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does alatrofloxacin come in?
Across the brands we track, alatrofloxacin is currently marketed as injectable, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic alatrofloxacin?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled alatrofloxacin product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
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We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for alatrofloxacin on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.