País: Reino Unido
Idioma: inglés
Fuente: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)
Ascorbic acid
Kent Pharma (UK) Ltd
A11GA01
Ascorbic acid
100mg
Oral tablet
Oral
No Controlled Drug Status
Valid as a prescribable product
BNF: 09060301; GTIN: 5015201009535
fold 35 mm fold 35 mm 280 mm 150 mm READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS MEDICINE BECAUSE IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU. Always take this medicine exactly as described in this leaflet or as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. • KEEP THIS LEAFLET. YOU MAY NEED TO READ IT AGAIN. • ASK YOUR PHARMACIST IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION OR ADVICE. 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. • YOU MUST TALK TO A DOCTOR IF YOU DO NOT FEEL BETTER OR IF YOU FEEL WORSE. WHAT IS IN THIS LEAFLET 1. What Vodexo ® is and what it is used for 2. What you need to know before you take Vodexo ® 3. How to take Vodexo ® 4. Possible side effects 5. How to store Vodexo ® 6. Contents of the pack and other information WHAT VODEXO ® IS AND WHAT IT IS Vodexo ® Tablets belong to a group of medicines called vitamins. Ascorbic acid is also known as Vitamin C. Vodexo ® Tablets are used for the treatment of Vitamin C deficiency. They are also used to treat scurvy (a serious condition due to a long-term lack of dietary Vitamin C). WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU TAKE VODEXO ® DO NOT TAKE VODEXO ® : • if you are allergic to ascorbic acid or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6) • if you suffer from hyperoxaluria (excretion of urine containing large amounts of calcium oxalate crystals) WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Vodexo ® if you: • are to undergo any blood or urine tests as ascorbic acid can interfere with some blood and urine tests • are a regular smoker • have kidney failure as ascorbic acid enhances aluminium absorption (present in antacids) which may reach toxic levels. OTHER MEDICINES AND VODEXO ® Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines. Vodexo ® Tablets may interfere with other medicines that you may be taking. This includes medicines you Leer el documento completo
SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT Ascorbic Acid 100mg Tablets Vodexo 100mg Tablets 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Each tablet contains 100mg ascorbic acid Excipients with known effect: contains 0.60 mg/tablet lactose monohydrate For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1. 3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM White to off-white uncoated tablets. Ascorbic Acid 100mg Tablets are 8 mm, white to off-white, plain, round, biconvex tablets. 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS Vitamin C deficiency Treatment of scurvy 4.2 POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION Posology _Adults: _ Therapeutic use – at least 250mg daily in divided doses._ _ Maximum of 1000mg daily. _Elderly: _ As for other adults. As the dietary intake of vitamin C may be less in the elderly, they have greater risk of presenting with vitamin C deficiency. Method of administration For oral administration. 4.3 CONTRAINDICATIONS Ascorbic acid should not be given to patients with hyperoxaluria. Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients listed in section 6.1. 4.4 SPECIAL WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS FOR USE Increased intake of ascorbic acid over a prolonged period may result in increased renal clearance of ascorbic acid, and deficiency may result if the intake is reduced or withdrawn rapidly. (See section 4.8) INTERFERENCE WITH SEROLOGICAL TESTING Ascorbic acid 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 uricase with copper reduction and measurement of creatinine in non-deproteinised serum may also be affected. High doses of ascorbic acid may give false-negative readings in faecal occult blood tests. This product contains lactose. Patients with rare hereditary problems of galactose intolerance, the Lapp lactase deficiency or glucose-galactose malabsorption should not take Leer el documento completo