Humira

adalimumab

Humira is used to reduce the effects of a substance in the body that can cause inflammation associated with rheumatoid arthritis, prosiatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis. It is also used to treat Crohn’s disease when other drugs have been tried without successful treatment of symptoms.

Some common symptoms associated with Humira are:

• pain
• redness
• itching
• swelling
• bleeding where the medication was injected
• headache
• stuffy nose
• sinus pain
• nausea
• stomach pain

In September 2007, a committee set up by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded it was too early to tell whether an experimental gene therapy treatment for rheumatoid arthritis contributed to the death of a 36-year-old woman in July 2007. The patient was also taking consistent injections of Humira, a similar drug also linked to infections.