Clofazimine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Clofazimine 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
- Capsule
- Sold as
- Lamprene
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every clofazimine 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: Lamprene.
Clofazimine and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for clofazimine: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadLimited information indicates that clofazimine appears in milk in relatively large amounts. Human milk enhances the solubilization and possibly the absorption of clofazimine in infants. Milk can be colored pink to red by the drug and breastfed infant's skin can be discolored the typical red color that is common in persons taking the drug. No serious or permanent toxicity has been reported in breastfed infants; however, an alternate drug might be considered.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised February 15, 2025. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about clofazimine
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 5,401 reports naming clofazimine, and the FDA flagged 90% 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:
- electrocardiogram qt prolonged650 reports
- anaemia450 reports
- nausea439 reports
- vomiting435 reports
- neuropathy peripheral344 reports
- dyspnoea284 reports
- drug resistance253 reports
- diarrhoea217 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean clofazimine 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 clofazimine 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 clofazimine 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 clofazimine come in?
Across the brands we track, clofazimine is currently marketed as capsule, 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 clofazimine?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled clofazimine 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
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Clofazimine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/clofazimine
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- “Clofazimine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/clofazimine.
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 clofazimine on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.