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Dioralyte Relief Blackcurrant Sachets 20s
SKU :
OTCDIORELBC20
PIP-Code :
3673142
EAN :
5000283654469
Dioralyte Relief Blackcurrant Sachets contains pre-cooked rice powder and salts to replace the water and salts lost from your body when you have diarrhoea and help the watery stools return to normal.
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SKU
OTCDIORELBC20
£13.10
£0.66 per sachet
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Description
Dioralyte Relief Blackcurrant Sachets
Dioralyte Relief Blackcurrant Sachets contains pre-cooked rice powder and salts (sodium citrate, sodium chloride and potassium chloride) to replace the water and salts lost from your body when you have diarrhoea and help the watery stools return to normal. The powder is mixed with water before taking.
Directions
Always use Dioralyte Relief exactly as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. You should check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.
Dioralyte Relief must be mixed with water before taking. Prepare just before the medicine is going to be taken. Do not make in advance. If you are giving it to a baby over the course of the day, you can keep the drink in a refrigerator for up to 24 hours.
Only dissolve the powder in water. Do not dissolve it in anything else. Use fresh drinking water for adults and children
over 1 year old. If fresh water is not available, use water which has been freshly boiled and cooled. Always use water which has been freshly boiled and cooled for babies aged 3 months to 1 year
- Empty the contents of 1 sachet into a glass
- Add 200 ml (7 fl oz) of water.
- Stir until the powder dissolves.
When your medicine is fully dissolved, the drink will look milky. Do not use more or less than 200ml of water. If you do, the drink will become too weak or too strong. It will not work as well. You may also upset the balance of salts in your body.
How many sachets to take
Adults (including the elderly) and children over 1 year:
- One sachet after each loose stool.
- You can take up to 5 sachets each day, for up to 3 to 4 days. Do not take more than 5 sachets in 24 hours.
Babies aged 3 months to 1 year:
- This medicine should only be given under the guidance of a doctor
- The doctor will calculate how much to give your baby, depending on how much they weigh. The usual dose is 150-200ml of the drink for each kg of the baby's weight, each day.
- This can be given over 24 hours. Give half the drink during the first 8 hours and the other half during the next 16 hours.
- Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure how much to give.
- If your baby is being sick, you can give 5-10 ml (one or two teaspoons) every 5 minutes. This can be gradually increased until they are able to drink normally.
Ingredients
- Active Ingredients: Pre-cooked rice powder, sodium citrate, sodium chloride and potassium chloride.
- Other Ingredients: Hypromellose, aspartame, blackcurrant flavour, purified water and ethanol 96%
Cautions
- Please tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines. This includes medicines you buy without a prescription, including herbal medicines. This is because Dioralyte Relief can affect the way some other medicines work. Also some medicines can affect the way Dioralyte Relief works.
- Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking any medicine if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. This includes if you are planning to get pregnant or think that you might be pregnant.
- Dioralyte Relief contains 5 mg of aspartame in each sachet. Aspartame is a source of phenylalanine. It may be harmful if you have phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare genetic disorder in which phenylalanine builds up because the body cannot remove it properly.
- Dioralyte Relief contains 2.5 vol % ethanol (alcohol). One dose contains 191mg of ethanol, which is about the same amount of alcohol as 4 ml of beer or 1.7ml of wine. This can be harmful to people with a drink problem. Also take this into account if you are pregnant, breastfeeding or giving this to a child, have liver disease or epilepsy.
- This medicine contains 190mg sodium (main component of cooking/table salt) in each sachet. This is equivalent to 10 % of the recommended maximum daily dietary intake of sodium for an adult.
- This medicine contains 156 mg potassium per sachet. To be taken into consideration by patients with reduced kidney function or patients on a controlled potassium diet.
Do not take Dioralyte Relief and talk to your doctor or pharmacist if:
- You are allergic (hypersensitive) to pre-cooked rice powder, sodium citrate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride or any of the other ingredients of Dioralyte Relief
- Your bowel is partially or fully blocked (called 'intestinal obstruction').
- You have severe kidney or liver disease.
- You have something called 'phenylketonuria' (a rare illness passed on in families)
- The child taking the medicine is under 3 months old.
Check with your doctor or pharmacist before taking Dioralyte Relief if:
- You have something called an 'electrolyte imbalance' (unusual levels of salts in your body).
- You are on a low potassium or low sodium diet
- The child taking the medicine is under 1 year old Infants under the age of 2 with diarrhoea should be seen by a health care provider as soon as possible.
Patient Information
Always read the product information. Click on the link below to view the Patient Information Leaflet. Requires Adobe Reader – if you cannot open the file, please
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Patient Information Leaflet