Pegademase Bovine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Pegademase Bovine 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
- Injectable
- Sold as
- Adagen
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every pegademase bovine 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: Adagen.
Pegademase Bovine and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for pegademase bovine: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadNo information is available on the clinical use of pegademase bovine during breastfeeding. Because it is a large protein molecule with a molecular weight of 113,000 Da, the amount in milk is likely to be very low and absorption is unlikely because it is probably partially destroyed in the infant's gastrointestinal tract and poorly absorbed orally. Polyethylene glycol is not excreted into breastmilk.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised December 15, 2024. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about pegademase bovine
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 3 reports naming pegademase bovine, and the FDA flagged 100% 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:
- central nervous system lymphoma1 reports
- deep vein thrombosis1 reports
- erythema nodosum1 reports
- infection1 reports
- pyrexia1 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean pegademase bovine 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 pegademase bovine 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 pegademase bovine 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 pegademase bovine come in?
Across the brands we track, pegademase bovine is currently marketed as injectable, 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 pegademase bovine?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled pegademase bovine 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). Pegademase Bovine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/pegademase-bovine
- MLA
- “Pegademase Bovine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/pegademase-bovine.
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 pegademase bovine on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.