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Ascorbic Acid
Crescent Pharma Ltd
A11GA01
Ascorbic Acid
50mg
Tablets
Oral use
28, 100, 500 & 1000 tablets
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Surepharm Services Ltd
Ascorbic Acid (Vit C), Plain
For the treatment of scurvy. Prophylactically in cases where deficiency might be expected to occur.
Authorised
2014-04-17
Patient Information Leaflet ASCORBIC ACID 50 MG TABLETS This medicine will be called Ascorbic Acid Tablets in this leaflet. READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS MEDICINE. • Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again. • This medicine is only for you. Do not give it to anyone else to take. It may harm them, even if their symptoms are the same as yours. • If you have any further questions, please ask your doctor or pharmacist. • If you get any side effects talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. See section 4. IN THIS LEAFLET: 1. What Ascorbic Acid Tablets are and what they are used for 2. Before you take Ascorbic Acid Tablets 3. How to take Ascorbic Acid Tablets 4. Possible side effects 5. How to store Ascorbic Acid Tablets 6. Further information 1. WHAT ASCORBIC ACID TABLETS ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR These tablets contain the active ingredient, ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is the chemical name for Vitamin C. The tablets can be used to increase the amount of Vitamin C in the diet. Vitamin C Tablets are used to treat patients with scurvy or they can be used by people who are at risk of Vitamin C deficiency. 2. BEFORE YOU TAKE ASCORBIC ACID TABLETS SOME PEOPLE MUST NOT TAKE THESE TABLETS. DO NOT TAKE THESE TABLETS IF: • You know you are allergic to ascorbic acid or to any of the other ingred اقرأ الوثيقة كاملة
SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT Ascorbic Acid 50 mg Tablets 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Each tablet contains Ascorbic Acid 50mg Excipients with known effect: Each tablet contains 89.6mg lactose and 4.9mg sucrose For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1 3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM Tablet. White, uncoated bi-convex tablets with tablet markings “50”. 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS For the treatment of scurvy. Prophylactically in cases where deficiency might be expected to occur. 4.2 POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION For oral administration. Adults, the elderly and children: For the treatment of scurvy: 2 tablets three times a day. For prophylactic use: 1 tablet twice a day. 4.3 CONTRAINDICATIONS Hypersensitivity to ascorbic acid or to any of the excipients listed in section 6.1. Ascorbic acid supplements should not be given to patients with hyperoxaluria. 4.4 SPECIAL WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS FOR USE Vitamin C may interfere with tests and assays for urinary glucose, giving false negative results with methods utilising glucose oxidase with indicator (e.g. Labstix, Testape) and false positive results with neocuproin methods. Estimation of uric acid by phosphotungstate or by uricase with copper reduction and measurement of creatinine in non-deproteinised serum may also be affected. High doses of vitamin C may give false negative readings in faecal occult blood tests. Patients with rare hereditary problems of fructose or galactose intolerance, the LAPP lactase deficiency, glucose-galactose malabsorption or sucrase-isomaltase insufficiency should not take this medicine as it contains lactose and sucrose. 4.5 INTERACTION WITH OTHER MEDICINAL PRODUCTS AND OTHER F اقرأ الوثيقة كاملة