Medical Editor: John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP
What Is Condylox Topical?
Condylox (podofilox) Topical Solution 0.5% is an antimitotic drug used to treat genital warts that appear on the outside of the body, but this medicine is not a cure for genital warts. Condylox Topical Solution is available in generic form.
What Are Side Effects of Condylox Topical?
Condylox Topical may cause serious side effects including:
- hives,
- difficulty breathing, and
- swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat, and
- severe itching, burning, oozing, bleeding, or skin changes where the medicine is applied
Get medical help right away, if you have any of the symptoms listed above.
Common side effects of Condylox Topical Solution include:
- mild skin irritation,
- redness,
- itching,
- burning,
- pain,
- tenderness,
- bleeding,
- dryness,
- peeling,
- tingling,
- scarring,
- blistering,
- crusting, or
- swelling of the skin where the medicine was applied;
- sleep problems (insomnia);
- unpleasant skin odor;
- nausea,
- vomiting; or
- pain during sex
Seek medical care or call 911 at once if you have the following serious side effects:
- Serious eye symptoms such as sudden vision loss, blurred vision, tunnel vision, eye pain or swelling, or seeing halos around lights;
- Serious heart symptoms such as fast, irregular, or pounding heartbeats; fluttering in your chest; shortness of breath; and sudden dizziness, lightheartedness, or passing out;
- Severe headache, confusion, slurred speech, arm or leg weakness, trouble walking, loss of coordination, feeling unsteady, very stiff muscles, high fever, profuse sweating, or tremors.
This document does not contain all possible side effects and others may occur. Check with your physician for additional information about side effects.
Dosage for Condylox Topical
Apply Condylox Topical Solution twice daily morning and evening (every 12 hours), for 3 consecutive days, then withhold use for 4 consecutive days. This one week cycle of treatment may be repeated up to four times until there is no visible wart tissue.
What Drugs, Substances, or Supplements Interact with Condylox Topical?
Condylox may interact with other drugs. Tell your doctor all medications and supplements you use.
Condylox Topical During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
It is unknown if Condylox topical will harm a fetus. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant while using this medication. It is unknown if this drug passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing baby. Consult your doctor before breastfeeding.
Additional Information
Our Condylox (podofilox) Topical Solution 0.5% Side Effects Drug Center provides a comprehensive view of available drug information on the potential side effects when taking this medication.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.

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12 Preventable STDs: Pictures, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment See SlideshowGet emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Wash off the medicine and call your doctor at once if you have a serious skin reaction such as severe itching, burning, oozing, bleeding, or skin changes where the medicine is applied.
Common side effects may include:
- mild skin irritation (pain, swelling, burning, redness, itching, tingling, blisters, crusting, dryness, peeling) where the medicine was applied;
- headache, dizziness;
- sleep problems (insomnia);
- unpleasant skin odor;
- vomiting; or
- pain during sex.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.

QUESTION
Condoms are the best protection from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). See AnswerSIDE EFFECTS
In clinical trials, the following local adverse reactions were reported at some point during treatment.
Adverse Experience | Males | Females |
Burning | 64% | 78% |
Pain | 50% | 72% |
Inflammation | 71% | 63% |
Erosion | 67% | 67% |
Itching | 50% | 65% |
Reports of burning and pain were more frequent and of greater severity in women than in men.
Adverse effects reported in less than 5% of the patients included pain with intercourse, insomnia, tingling, bleeding, tenderness, chafing, malodor, dizziness, scarring, vesicle formation, crusting edema, dryness/peeling, foreskin irretraction, hematuria, vomiting and ulceration.
Read the entire FDA prescribing information for Condylox Topical (Podofilox Topical Solution )
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