How should I take zidovudine?

Zidovudine comes in the afterward forms and strengths:
300-mg tablets (brand name: Retrovir).
100-mg capsules (brand name: Retrovir).
10-mg/mL abstract (brand name: Retrovir).
20-mL single-use vials (each absolute 10 mg of zidovudine) of band-aid for intravenous beverage (brand name: Retrovir).
Take zidovudine according to your bloom affliction provider’s instructions.
Take zidovudine tablets, capsules, and abstract with or after food.
Before use, zidovudine band-aid for intravenous beverage is adulterated with dextrose (sugar) attenuated in water. The adulterated band-aid is accustomed boring (over 1 hour) through a aggravate or catheter into a vein.
If you yield too abundant zidovudine, acquaintance your bounded adulteration ascendancy centermost (1-800-222-1222) or go to the abutting hospital emergency allowance appropriate away.
For added advice on how to yield zidovudine tablets, capsules, and syrup, see the FDA biologic characterization from DailyMed. (DailyMed is a federal website that includes the a lot of contempo biologic labels submitted to FDA.) For added advice on how to yield zidovudine intravenous infusion, see the biologic arbitrary from MedlinePlus.