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Kalpol

Application instruction:

Form of release and structure

Indications to use

Contraindications

Route of administration and dosage

Side effects

Special instructions

Medicinal interaction

Terms and storage conditions

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Суспензия для приема внутрь для детей Калпол Kalpol – an analgetic antipyretic with anesthetic and febrifugal action for children aged from 3 months up to 6 years.

Form of release and structure

Dosage form – suspension for intake for children: pink color, possesses a strawberry smell (on 70 or 100 ml in dark glass bottles, in a box a cardboard 1 bottle complete with a measured spoon with divisions of 2,5 and 5 ml).

Active ingredient: paracetamol, in 5 ml of suspension – 120 mg.

Additional components: water the purified, sugar syrup, gum, глицерол, methylparahydroxybenzoate, sorbitol solution of 70%, fragrance, кармоизин (E122).

Indications to use

Decrease in the increased body temperature owing to children's infections, flu, acute respiratory diseases, postvaccinal reactions and other states;
Stopping of a pain syndrome of weak and moderate intensity, including head and a dentagra, neuralgia, muscle pain, pains at injuries and burns.

Contraindications

Absolute:

Deficit glyukozo-6-fosfatdegidrogenazy;
Blood diseases;
The expressed renal failures and/or a liver;
Children's age up to 1 month;
Individual hypersensitivity to drug components.

Relative (Kalpol has to be applied with extra care and only on doctor's orders):

Children's age from 1 to 3 months;
Rotor syndrome;
Syndrome Cudgel Johnson;
Gilbert's syndrome;
Easy and moderate renal failures or liver.

Route of administration and dosage

Kalpol it is necessary to accept inside in 1-2 hours after food, washing down with a large amount of liquid. Suspension should not be dissolved.

The recommended single doses for children depending on their age:

3-12 months: 2,5-5 ml of suspension (60-120 mg of paracetamol);
1-6 years: 5-10 ml of suspension (120-240 mg of paracetamol).

Frequency rate of reception – 3-4 times a day, at least with 4-hour intervals.

Duration of therapy depends on the drug use purpose. If Kalpol is appointed as an antipyretic – up to 3 days as analgeziruyushchy means – up to 5 days.

Side effects

At administration of drug in the recommended doses paracetamol seldom causes serious side effects. Are in certain cases possible:

From digestive tract: abdominal pains, nausea, vomiting;
Allergic reactions: skin rash, itch, small tortoiseshell, Quincke's edema;
From system of a hemopoiesis: seldom – an agranulocytosis, a leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia.

At prolonged use of Kalpol in high doses there is a risk of development of hepatotoxic and nephrotoxic action, a methemoglobinemia and pancytopenia.

Special instructions

During Kalpol's use it is not necessary to appoint other drugs containing paracetamol since it is fraught with overdose.

At prolonged treatment (more than 5-7 days) it is necessary to control a pattern of peripheral blood and a functional condition of a liver.

At purpose of drug a sick diabetes mellitus it is necessary to consider that suspension contains sugar.

Paracetamol influences results of the laboratory tests which are carried out for the purpose of determination of content of uric acid and glucose in a blood plasma.

If within 3 days high temperature or more than 5 days – a pain syndrome remains, it is necessary to see a doctor.

Medicinal interaction

Barbiturates, tricyclic antidepressants, anticonvulsant drugs (for example, Phenytoinum), rifampicin, phenylbutazone, ethanol: considerably the risk of development of a hepatotoxic action of paracetamol increases;
Salicylates: nephrotoxic effects of paracetamol increase;
Chloramphenicol: its toxic properties increase;
Anticoagulants of indirect action: their effect amplifies;
Uricosuric drugs: their action weakens.