Nitazoxanide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Nitazoxanide 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
- Tablet
- Sold as
- Alinia
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
- What the pharmacy pays
- about $2639 for a 30-count supply — not your price
Every nitazoxanide 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: Alinia.
What nitazoxanide 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 nitazoxanide keeps
No nitazoxanide 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.
Does nitazoxanide expire? The in-use limits and storage rules from its labelsNitazoxanide and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for nitazoxanide: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadLimited information indicates that a maternal dose of 500 mg of nitazoxanide produces low levels of an active metabolite, tizoxanide, in breastmilk and would not be expected to cause any adverse effects in breastfed infants, especially if the infant is older than 2 months. But until more data become available, an alternate drug may be preferred, especially while nursing a newborn or preterm infant.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised September 15, 2023. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about nitazoxanide
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 349 reports naming nitazoxanide, and the FDA flagged 91% 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:
- diarrhoea66 reports
- dyspnoea39 reports
- therapeutic product effect incomplete32 reports
- chest pain31 reports
- coma scale abnormal31 reports
- microsporidia infection31 reports
- pneumocystis jirovecii infection31 reports
- treatment failure27 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean nitazoxanide 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 nitazoxanide 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 nitazoxanide 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 nitazoxanide come in?
Across the brands we track, nitazoxanide 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 nitazoxanide?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled nitazoxanide 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). Nitazoxanide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/nitazoxanide
- MLA
- “Nitazoxanide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/nitazoxanide.
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 nitazoxanide on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.