Levofloxacin (levofloxacin)

• Pneumonia caught in a hospital (nosocomial pneumonia): adults 18 years and older.
• Community-acquired pneumonia: adults 18 years and older with lung infection caught outside a hospital.
• Complicated skin infections: adults 18 years and older.
• Uncomplicated skin infections: adults 18 years and older with mild to moderate skin infections, such as abscesses, cellulitis (infection of the deeper skin), boils, impetigo and wound infections.
• Chronic bacterial prostatitis: adult men with a long-lasting bacterial infection of the prostate gland.
• Inhalational anthrax, after exposure: adults and children 6 months and older who have breathed in anthrax germs, to lower the chance of getting sick or getting worse.
• Plague: adults and children 6 months and older, to treat plague (including plague of the lungs or blood) or to prevent it after exposure.
• Complicated urinary tract infections: adults 18 years and older.
• Acute pyelonephritis (kidney infection): adults 18 years and older, including when the bacteria are also in the blood.
• Uncomplicated urinary tract infections: adults 18 years and older with a simple bladder infection who have no other treatment options.
• Acute bacterial flare-up of chronic bronchitis: adults 18 years and older with long-term bronchitis (swelling of the airways) who have no other treatment options.
• Acute bacterial sinusitis: adults 18 years and older with a sinus infection who have no other treatment options.

A prescription is required. Your prescriber decides whether Levofloxacin is right for you.

IV infusion, given by a healthcare professional. When your prescriber agrees it can be given at home, we send a skilled nurse from an accredited nursing agency to give it.

Before the first dose, your prescriber may ask for:

• a culture (a lab test of a sample, such as blood or urine) to find the germ causing the infection and test which antibiotics can treat it
• questions about your health history, such as myasthenia gravis (a disease that causes muscle weakness), past tendon problems, or a bulge in the body's main artery (aortic aneurysm)
• a check for heart rhythm problems (such as a long QT interval), low potassium or magnesium in the blood, and other medicines you take that can affect heart rhythm

Important safety information: This medicine has a boxed warning about serious side effects that can happen together and may be permanent: tendon problems, including torn tendons, nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy), and effects on the brain and mood. It can also make muscle weakness worse in people with myasthenia gravis, and for sinus infections, bronchitis flare-ups and simple bladder infections it is only for people with no other treatment choice.

Read the Medication Guide and the full Levofloxacin prescribing information, and ask your prescriber or our pharmacists about side effects. Our pharmacists are on call 24 hours a day.

Health plans often require prior authorization for Levofloxacin. Our intake team checks your coverage and works with your prescriber’s office on the paperwork before your first delivery.

Offices can call (844) 671-2600 or fax a referral to (844) 671-2601. Referral forms for each specialty are on our referral forms page.