Ketoprofen: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Ketoprofen 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
- Film · Tablet
- Sold as
- 3 products — Nexcede, Actron and Orudis Kt
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
- What the pharmacy pays
- about $194 for a 30-count supply — not your price
Every ketoprofen 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 | 70/100 | Prescription | Film | Generic | $194 | View → | |
| 2 | Not yet rated | Prescription | Tablet | Generic | $194 | View → | |
| 3 | Not yet rated | Prescription | Tablet | Generic | $194 | View → |
What ketoprofen pills look like
Imprint codes, colour and shape from the FDA’s labelling data. Match the imprint on your pill — or search any imprint.
How long ketoprofen keeps
No ketoprofen label we read sets a separate limit for after opening, but they do specify how it must be stored — and the stability behind any date assumes those conditions.
Ketoprofen and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for ketoprofen: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadAlthough ketoprofen has low levels in breastmilk, one center reported that they had received reports of adverse renal and gastrointestinal side effects in breastfed infants whose mothers were taking ketoprofen. Other agents are preferred, especially while nursing a newborn or preterm infant.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised June 15, 2025. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about ketoprofen
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 13,456 reports naming ketoprofen, and the FDA flagged 87% 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:
- headache1,227 reports
- fatigue916 reports
- nausea823 reports
- infusion site pain766 reports
- pyrexia754 reports
- hypersensitivity713 reports
- rheumatoid arthritis700 reports
- hyperhidrosis694 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean ketoprofen 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.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved August 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take ketoprofen 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 ketoprofen 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 ketoprofen sold under?
We track 3 ketoprofen-containing products in the U.S.: Nexcede, Actron and Orudis Kt. They are the same active ingredient; they differ in form, manufacturer, price and FDA recall record.
What forms does ketoprofen come in?
Across the brands we track, ketoprofen is currently marketed as film and 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 ketoprofen?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled ketoprofen 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). Ketoprofen: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/ketoprofen
- MLA
- “Ketoprofen: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/ketoprofen.
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 ketoprofen on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.