Promethazine B.P 25mg 100s

Description

Therapeutic action

– Sedating antihistamine

Indications

– Symptomatic treatment of minor allergic reactions (contact dermatitis, seasonal allergy, allergy to drugs, foo , etc.)

Presentation

– 25 mg tablet

Also comes in 10 mg tablet an in 5 mg/5 ml syrup.

Dosage

– Child from 2 to 5 years: 10 mg/ day in 2 divide doses or 5 to 15 mg once daily at be time

– Child from 5 to 10 years: 10 to 25 mg/ day in 2 divide doses or once daily at be time

– Child over 10 years an adult: 25 to 75 mg/ day in 3 divide doses or once daily at be time

Duration

– According to clinical response; single dose or for a few days

Contra-indications, adverse effects, precautions

– Do not a minister to patients with prostate disorders or close -angle glaucoma an to children less than

2 years.

– A minister with caution an monitor use in patients > 60 years an in children (risk of agitation,

excitability).

– May cause: drowsiness (caution when riving/operating machinery), anticholinergic effects ( dry mouth,

blurred vision, constipation, tachycardia ia, disorders of micturition), headache, tremor, allergic reactions.

– Monitor combination with CNS depressants (opioid analgesics, antipsychotics, sedatives, anti depressants,

etc.) an rugs known to have anticholinergic effects (amitriptyline, atropine, chlorpromazine,

clomipramine, etc.).

– Avoid alcohol during treatment.

–Pregnancy: avoid at the end of pregnancy;