Levocabastine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Levocabastine 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
- Drops
- Sold as
- Livostin
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every levocabastine 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: Livostin.
Levocabastine and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for levocabastine: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadLevocabastine is no longer marketed in the United States. Because absorption from the eye is limited, levocabastine would not be expected to cause any adverse effects in breastfed infants. To substantially diminish the amount of drug that reaches the breastmilk after using eye drops, place pressure over the tear duct by the corner of the eye for 1 minute or more, then remove the excess solution with an absorbent tissue.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised September 15, 2025. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about levocabastine
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 330 reports naming levocabastine, and the FDA flagged 54% 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:
- fatigue26 reports
- diarrhoea24 reports
- pruritus24 reports
- sinusitis22 reports
- dyspnoea21 reports
- headache21 reports
- nausea20 reports
- rash20 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean levocabastine 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 levocabastine 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 levocabastine 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 levocabastine come in?
Across the brands we track, levocabastine is currently marketed as drops, 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 levocabastine?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled levocabastine 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). Levocabastine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/levocabastine
- MLA
- “Levocabastine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/levocabastine.
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 levocabastine on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.