Benzthiazide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Benzthiazide is a medicine sold in the U.S. under 3 brand and generic names. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Tablet
- Sold as
- 3 products — Fovane, Urese and Exna
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every benzthiazide product we track (3)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
| # | Drug | Rating | Type | Form | Generic? | Pharmacy pays | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 64/100 | Prescription | Tablet | No data | — | View → | |
| 2 | 64/100 | Prescription | Tablet | No data | — | View → | |
| 3 | Not yet rated | Prescription | Tablet | No data | — | View → |
Benzthiazide and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for benzthiazide: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadNo information is available on the amount of benzthiazide in breastmilk. Intense diuresis with large doses may decrease breastmilk production. Other diuretics in low doses are preferred over benzthiazide.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised August 15, 2024. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about benzthiazide
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 54 reports naming benzthiazide, and the FDA flagged 94% 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:
- eczema14 reports
- impetigo14 reports
- pruritus14 reports
- seborrhoeic dermatitis12 reports
- pain of skin9 reports
- diarrhoea6 reports
- general physical health deterioration6 reports
- pulmonary oedema5 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean benzthiazide 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 benzthiazide 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 benzthiazide against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What brand names is benzthiazide sold under?
We track 3 benzthiazide-containing products in the U.S.: Fovane, Urese and Exna. They are the same active ingredient; they differ in form, manufacturer, price and FDA recall record.
What forms does benzthiazide come in?
Across the brands we track, benzthiazide is currently marketed as tablet, 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 benzthiazide?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled benzthiazide 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.
Cite this page
- APA
- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Benzthiazide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/benzthiazide
- MLA
- “Benzthiazide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/benzthiazide.
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 benzthiazide on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.