Panadol ActiFast 500mg tablets

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Source: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)

Active ingredient:

Paracetamol

Available from:

Haleon UK Ltd

ATC code:

N02BE01

INN (International Name):

Paracetamol

Dosage:

500mg

Pharmaceutical form:

Oral tablet

Administration route:

Oral

Class:

No Controlled Drug Status

Prescription type:

Valid as a prescribable product

Product summary:

BNF: 04070100; GTIN: 5000347075896 5000347087141

Patient Information leaflet

PLEASE READ RIGHT THROUGH THIS LEAFLET BEFORE YOU START USING THIS
MEDICINE.
This medicine is available without prescription, but you still need to
use Panadol
ActiFast tablets carefully to get the best results from them.
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5. How to store Panadol ActiFast
6. Further information
1. What Panadol ActiFast does
PANADOL ACTIFAST IS USED FOR FAST PAIN RELIEF OF HEADACHES, INCLUDING
MIGRAINE AND
TENSION HEADACHES, TOOTHACHE, BACKACHE, RHEUMATIC AND MUSCLE PAINS,
AND PERIOD
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temperature when you have a fever.
2. Check before you take Panadol ActiFast
DO NOT TAKE PANADOL ACTIFAST:
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of the other
ingredients (listed in Section 6)
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Summary of Product characteristics

OBJECT 1
PANADOL ACTIFAST (GSL)
Summary of Product Characteristics Updated 24-Apr-2017 |
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare
1. Name of the medicinal product
Panadol ActiFast
2. Qualitative and quantitative composition
Each Panadol ActiFast tablet contains Paracetamol 500 mg.
For excipients see Section 6.1
3. Pharmaceutical form
Form
Tablet.
Description
White film-coated capsule shaped tablet with flat edges, debossed with
the letter 'P'.
4. Clinical particulars
4.1 Therapeutic indications
Panadol ActiFast is a mild analgesic and antipyretic, and is
recommended for the treatment of most
painful and febrile conditions, for example, headache including
migraine and tension headaches,
toothache, backache, rheumatic and muscle pains, dysmenorrhoea, sore
throat, and for relieving the fever,
aches and pains of colds and flu.
4.2 Posology and method of administration
For oral administration.
ADULTS, INCLUDING THE ELDERLY AND CHILDREN 16 YEARS AND OVER:
Two tablets to be taken with half a tumbler of water (100 ml).
To ensure fast onset of pain relief no less than two tablets must be
taken with 100 ml of water. For
maximum speed of action this should be on an empty stomach.
Two tablets up to four times daily as required. The dose should not be
repeated more frequently than
every four hours nor should more than four doses be taken in any 24
hour period.
CHILDREN AGED 12-15 YEARS:
One tablet to be taken with half a tumbler of water (100ml), up to
four times daily as required. The dose
should not be repeated more frequently than every four hours nor
should more than 4 doses be given in
any 24 hour period.
CHILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS OF AGE:
Panadol ActiFast is not recommended for children under 12 years of
age.
4.3 Contraindications
Hypersensitivity to paracetamol or any of the other constituents.
4.4 Special warnings and precautions for use
Care is advised in the administration of paracetamol to patients with
renal or hepatic impairment. The
hazard of overdose is greater in those with non-cirrhotic alcoholic
liver disease.
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