País: Reino Unido
Idioma: inglés
Fuente: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)
Glimepiride
Consilient Health Ltd
A10BB12
Glimepiride
3mg
Oral tablet
Oral
No Controlled Drug Status
Valid as a prescribable product
BNF: 06010201
PATIENT INFORMATION LEAFLET GLIMEPIRIDE 1MG, 2MG, 3MG AND 4MG TABLETS READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS MEDICINE. ! Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again. ! If you have further questions, please ask your doctor or your pharmacist. ! This medicine has been prescribed for you personally and you should not pass it on to others. It may harm them, even if their symptoms are the same as yours. ! If any of the side effects gets serious, or if you notice any side effects not listed in this leaflet, please tell your doctor or pharmacist. IN THIS LEAFLET: 1. What Glimepiride Tablets are and what they are used for 2. Before you take Glimepiride Tablets 3. How to take Glimepiride Tablets 4. Possible side effects 5. Storing Glimepiride Tablets 6. Further Information Glimepiride is one of a group of medicines called sulphonylurea hypoglycaemics, which are used for the treatment of diabetes by helping to control blood sugar levels (glucose). Diabetes is a condition where the body does not produce enough insulin to control the level of blood glucose. Glimepiride Tablets are used to treat non-insulin dependent (Type II) diabetes mellitus, in addition to a recommended diet, regular physical exercise and weight reduction when these have not worked on their own. DO NOT TAKE GLIMEPIRIDE TABLETS IF YOU: ! are allergic (hypersensitive) to glimepiride, any of the other ingredients (listed in Section 6) or to other oral sulphonylurea anti-diabetics or sulphonamide antibiotics ! have type I insulin-dependent diabetes ! have suffered from confusion, fainting or coma as a result of your diabetes ! have been told by your doctor you have 'ketoacidosis' (your breath may smell of pear drops) ! have severe kidney or liver disease, as your diabetes will need to be treated with insulin ! are pregnant or breastfeeding. TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST BEFORE TAKING THE TABLETS IF: ! you are suffering from an infection with or without fever ! you have had a recent accident, are to have an operation or other Leer el documento completo
SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT Glimepiride 3mg Tablets 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Each tablet contains 3 mg glimepiride. Excipient with known effect Each tablet contains 142.22 mg lactose monohydrate. For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1. 3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM Tablet. The tablet can be divided into equal doses. Where a lower tablet strength is available this should be used instead. Light yellow, slightly mottled, oblong, flat, bevelled edge tablet scored on both sides with the embossment ‘G3’ on one side 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS Glimepiride is indicated for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, when diet, physical exercise and weight reduction alone are not adequate. 4.2 POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION Posology For oral administration. The basis for successful treatment of diabetes is a good diet, regular physical activity, as well as routine checks of blood and urine. Tablets or insulin cannot compensate if the patient does not keep to the recommended diet. Dose is determined by the results of blood and urinary glucose determinations. The starting dose is 1 mg glimepiride per day. If good control is achieved, this dose should be used for maintenance therapy. For the different dose regimens appropriate strengths are available. If control is unsatisfactory the dose should be increased, based on the glycaemic control, in a stepwise manner with an interval of about 1 to 2 weeks between each step, to 2, 3, or 4 mg glimepiride per day. A dose of more than 4 mg glimepiride per day gives better results only in exceptional cases. The maximum recommended dose is 6 mg glimepiride per day. In patients not adequately controlled with the maximum daily dose of metformin, concomitant glimepiride therapy can be initiated. While maintaining the metformin dose, glimepiride therapy is started with a low dose, and is then titrated up depending on the desired level of metabolic control up to the maximum daily dose. The combination Leer el documento completo