It is an immunosuppressant. In organ transplant patients, it works by suppressing your body immune response helping your body to accept the new organ as if it were your own. In allergic eye disease, it works by decreasing the production of chemicals (eg. histamine) that cause allergic eye symptoms such as inflammation (redness and swelling).
It is used for prevention of organ rejection in transplant patients.
Nausea, Diarrhoea, Increased glucose level in blood, Vomiting, Kidney damage, Liver damage, Stomach pain, Increased thirst