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Solpadeine Headache Soluble Tablets 16s
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Solpadeine Headache Soluble Tablets
Solpadeine Headache Soluble Tablets can provide effective relief from headache and migraine in adults and children over 12 years. They can also relieve backache, rheumatic pain, toothache, sore throat, period pain and the fever, aches and pains of colds and flu.
Solpadeine Headache Soluble Tablets contain two active ingredients:
- Paracetamol: a painkiller and also reduces your temperature when you have a fever.
- Caffeine: acts to further help the effectiveness of paracetamol.
Directions
Adults and adolescents aged 16 years and over:
- Take 2 tablets dissolved in a tumbler of water, every 4-6 hours as needed.
- Do not take more frequently than every 4 hours.
- Do not take more than 8 tablets in 24 hours.
Adolescents aged 12–15 years:
- Take 1 tablet dissolved in a tumbler of water, every 4-6 hours as needed.
- Do not take more frequently than every 4 hours.
- Do not take more than 4 tablets in 24 hours.
Do not take more than the recommended dose.
Avoid too much caffeine in drinks like coffee and tea. High caffeine intake can cause difficulty sleeping, shaking and an uncomfortable feeling in the chest.
If you take too many tablets Immediate medical advice should be sought in the event of an overdose, even if you feel well, because of the risk of delayed, serious liver damage.
If your symptoms continue or your headache becomes persistent, see your doctor.
Ingredients
- Active Ingredients: Paracetamol 500mg and caffeine 65 mg.
- Other Ingredients: Sodium hydrogen carbonate, sorbitol (E420), saccharin sodium, sodium laurilsulfate, citric acid anhydrous, sodium carbonate anhydrous, povidone and dimeticone.
Cautions
Do not take Solpadeine Headache Soluble Tablets:
- If you have ever had an allergic reaction to paracetamol, caffeine or to any of the other ingredients.
- If you are taking other medicines containing paracetamol.
- Due to the caffeine content of this product it should not be used if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. There is no available data on the influence of this product on fertility.
Ask your doctor before you take this medicine:
- If you suffer from hepatocellular insufficiency
- If you have chronic alcoholism
- If you have Gilbert’s Syndrome (familial non-haemolytic jaundice)
- If you are taking other medicines that can affect the liver
- If you have glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
- If you have haemolytic anaemia
- If you have glutathione deficiency
- If you are dehydrated
- If you have had poor diet such that the diet causes health problems
- If you weigh less than 50kg
- If you have liver or kidney disease, including alcoholic liver disease
- If you have been told by your doctor that you have an intolerance to some sugars.
- If you are on a controlled sodium diet. Each tablet contains 427mg of sodium.
They may reduce the dose or increase the time interval between doses of your medicine.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking these tablets if you are taking any prescribed medicines, particularly:
- Metoclopramide or domperidone (for nausea [feeling sick] or vomiting [being sick])
- Colestyramine (to lower blood cholesterol)
- Medicines that make you drowsy or sedated (e.g. barbiturates such as; phenobarbitone, tricyclic antidepressants, alcohol, carbamazepine, phenytoin, primidone, rifampicin, St John's Wort).
- If you take blood thinning drugs (anticoagulants e.g. warfarin and other coumarins) and you need to take a pain reliever on a daily basis, talk to your doctor because of the risk of bleeding. But you can still take occasional doses of Solpadeine Headache Soluble Tablets at the same time as anticoagulants. If you take medicine to treat gout and hyperuricemia (e.g. probenecid).
- If you are malnourished and taking medicine to treat bacterial infections (e.g. chloramphenicol).
- If you are taking flucloxacillin (antibiotic), due to a serious risk of blood and fluid abnormality (high anion gap metabolic acidosis) that must have urgent treatment and which may occur particularly in case of severe renal impairment, sepsis (when bacteria and their toxins circulate in the blood leading to organ damage), malnutrition, chronic alcoholism, and if the maximum daily doses of paracetamol are used.
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