Pyridoxine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Pyridoxine 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
- Sold as
- Vitamin B6
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every pyridoxine 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: Vitamin B6.
Combination products containing pyridoxine
A combination is a different drug — different dosing, different warnings. It is listed here so you can find it, not so you can substitute it.
Pyridoxine recalls
From the FDA Enforcement database. A recall covers specific lots — not the drug as a whole.
How long pyridoxine keeps
No pyridoxine 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 pyridoxine expire? The in-use limits and storage rules from its labelsWhat people report to the FDA about pyridoxine
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 16,736 reports naming pyridoxine, and the FDA flagged 85% 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:
- nausea1,404 reports
- fatigue1,116 reports
- vomiting1,083 reports
- diarrhoea1,038 reports
- headache975 reports
- dyspnoea868 reports
- anaemia862 reports
- pyrexia857 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean pyridoxine 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 26, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take pyridoxine 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 pyridoxine against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
Is there a generic pyridoxine?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled pyridoxine 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.
Has pyridoxine been recalled?
The FDA's Enforcement database lists 2 recall records whose product description mentions pyridoxine. The most recent: B6 (Pyridoxine HCl) for Injections (Jul 30, 2025). A recall applies to specific lots, not to the drug as a whole — check the record for the affected lot numbers.
Cite this page
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Pyridoxine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/pyridoxine
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- “Pyridoxine: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/pyridoxine.
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 pyridoxine on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.