TEGRETOL SR 200 Milligram Tablet Prolonged Release

מדינה: אירלנד

שפה: אנגלית

מקור: HPRA (Health Products Regulatory Authority)

מרכיב פעיל:

CARBAMAZEPINE

זמין מ:

Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd

קוד ATC:

N03AF01

INN (שם בינלאומי):

CARBAMAZEPINE

כמות:

200 Milligram

טופס פרצבטיות:

Tablet Prolonged Release

סוג מרשם:

Product subject to prescription which may be renewed (B)

איזור תרפויטי:

Antiepileptics

מצב אישור:

Authorised

תאריך אישור:

1993-05-31

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PACKAGE LEAFLET: INFORMATION FOR THE PATIENT
TEGRETOL SR 200MG AND 400MG 
PROLONGED RELEASE TABLETS
Carbamazepine
READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS 
MEDICINE – BECAUSE IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU.
• Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
• If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
• This medicine has been prescribed for you only. Do not pass it
on 
to others. It may harm them, even if their signs of illness are the 
same as yours.
• 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.
WHAT IS IN THIS LEAFLET
1. What Tegretol SR Prolonged Release Tablets areand what they are 
used for
2. What you need to know before you take Tegretol SR Prolonged
Release 
Tablets
3. How to take Tegretol SR Prolonged Release Tablets
4. Possible side effects 
5. How to store Tegretol SR Prolonged Release Tablets
6. Contents of the pack and other information
1. WHAT TEGRETOL SR PROLONGED RELEASE TABLETS IS AND WHAT IT IS 
USED FOR
Tegretol SR Prolonged Release Tablets contains a medicine called 
carbamazepine. Carbamazepine can affect the body in several 
different ways. Tegretol SR Prolonged Release Tablets helps to 
control messages passed from the brain to muscles along the nerve 
pathways in the body. It is an anti-epileptic medicine (prevents
fit

מאפייני מוצר

SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT
Tegretol SR 200mg prolonged release tablets
2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION
Each Tegretol SR 200 mg prolonged release tablet contains 200 mg
carbamazepine
Excipients: Polyethoxylated castor oil 0.22 mg per tablet
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM
Prolonged release tablet.
Film coated tablets, beige-orange in colour, oval shaped, slightly
biconvex with a score on each side and imprinted
with ‘H/C’ on one side and ‘C/G’ on the other side. The tablet
can be divided into equal halves.
4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS
4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS
1. As an anticonvulsant in the management of epilepsy (generalised
tonic – clonic and partial seizure types).
2. The paroxysmal pain of trigeminal neuralgia. Tegretol may also be
used to relieve the lancinating component of
other forms of deafferentation pain, for example glossopharyngeal
neuralgia, peripheral diabetic neuropathy, tabetic
lightning pain, superior laryngeal neuralgia, stump pain, phantom limb
pain and post herpetic neuralgia.
3. Management of alcohol withdrawal symptoms.
4. Treatment of mania and prophylaxis of manic-depressive illness,
especially in patients unresponsive to lithium.
4.2 POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION
Tegretol SR prolonged release tablets are given orally, usually in two
to four divided doses.
'Tegretol SR prolonged release tablets'
are generally given in the same total does as conventional Tegretol
dosage forms
but in a few patients when changing from other oral dosage forms of
Tegretol to 'Tegretol SR prolonged release
tablets', the total daily dose may need to be increased.
The final dose adjustment should always depend on the clinical
response in the individual patient.
Tegretol may be taken during, after or between meals. Tegretol SR
Prolonged Release tablets should not be chewed but
should be taken with a little liquid, e.g. a glass of water.
As a result of slow, controlled release of the active substance from
the SR Pr