Country: Ireland
Language: English
Source: HPRA (Health Products Regulatory Authority)
GESTODENE ETHINYLESTRADIOL
Pfizer Healthcare Ireland
GESTODENE ETHINYLESTRADIOL
75/20 Microgram
Coated Tablets
Product subject to prescription which may be renewed (B)
Authorised
0000-00-00
IE HT 007 Grouped Var for DPM, Haupt and excipient commitment Pfleet No. : 2013-0004193 - 1 - HARMONET 75 MICROGRAM/20 MICROGRAM COATED TABLETS GESTODENE AND ETHINYLESTRADIOL PATIENT INFORMATION LEAFLET (Republic of Ireland) Please read this carefully before you start to take your tablets. Keep this leaflet you may need to read it again. This leaflet provides only a summary of the information available on your medicine. If you have any questions or are not sure about anything, ask your doctor or pharmacist. WHAT'S IN YOUR TABLETS? The name of your medicine is Harmonet Tablets. Harmonet is supplied in a carton containing one blister pack of tablets. The blister strip may be packaged inside an aluminium foil pouch together with a silica gel desiccant sachet. Do not take the silica gel desiccant. Throw away the desiccant sachet when you open the foil pouch. Each blister pack of tablets contains 21 white tablets, each containing 75 micrograms of gestodene and 20 micrograms of ethinylestradiol. Your tablets also contain: lactose, maize starch, povidone, magnesium stearate, sucrose, polyethylene glycol 6000, calcium carbonate, talc and wax E. Harmonet is an oral contraceptive. THE PRODUCT AUTHORISATION IS HELD BY: Pfizer Healthcare Ireland 9 Riverwalk National Digital Park Citywest Business Campus Dublin 24 Ireland THE MANUFACTURER IS: Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals Little Connell, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Republic of Ireland OR Haupt Pharma Műnster GmbH Schleebrűggenka mp 15, 48159 Műnster, Germany HOW THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WORKS: Once a month, an egg (or ovum) is released from one of the ovaries and passes along the Fallopian tube to the womb. Fertilisation (the joining together of the m Read the complete document
SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT Harmonet 75 microgram/20 microgram coated tablets. 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Each tablet contains 75 micrograms gestodene and 20 micrograms ethinylestradiol. Excipients: Each tablet contains 37.505mg lactose and 19.661mg sucrose For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1 3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM Coated tablet. White, sugar coated tablet with a shiny surface. 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS Oral hormonal contraception. 4.2 POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION HOW TO TAKE HARMONET Regular daily intake of tablets for 21 consecutive days is important for the preservation of contraceptive efficacy. Tablets must be taken in the order directed on the package every day at about the same time with some liquid as needed. One tablet is to be taken daily for 21 consecutive days. Each subsequent pack is started after a 7-day tablet-free interval during which time a withdrawal bleed occurs. This usually starts on day 2-3 after the last tablet and may not have finished before the next pack is started. HOW TO START HARMONET _No hormonal contraceptive use within the preceding month_ The user should begin taking “Harmonet” on Day 1 of her natural menstrual cycle (i.e. the first day of her menstrual bleeding). Beginning “Harmonet” use on days 2-7 of the menstrual cycle is allowed, however a nonhormonal back-up method of birth control [such as, condoms and spermicide] is recommended during the first 7 days of “Harmonet” use. _Switching from another combined oral contraceptive (COC)_ Preferably “Harmonet” use should begin on the day after the last active tablet of the previous COC, but no later then the day following the usual tablet-free or inactive tablet interval of Read the complete document