numbness/tingling in the arms or legs. Adverse effects reported during postmarketing experience with cefdinir, regardless of causality, have included fever , shock , feeling of suffocation , and facial and laryngeal edema . Metabolic side effects have included increased gamma-glutamyltransferase (1%), increased alanine aminotransferase (0.7%), decreased bicarbonate (0.6%), increased phosphorus (0.6%),