DEXTAMINE Caplet

Treat cases of allergy that need therapy with corticosteroids such as hay fever, severe chronic bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic and contact dermatitis, drug allergy, serum sickness, allergic conjunctivitis, keratitis, iritis non-granulomatous and inflammation in the eye.

Dosage

Adults and children>12 years: 1-2 caplets, 4 times a day.

Children 6-12 years: 1/2 caplet, 3-4 times a day.

Taken after meals and at bedtime. If the condition began to improve, the dose should be reduced gradually and treatment was discontinued when conditions allow.

Hypersensitivity, peptic ulcer, osteoporosis, psychosis or severe psychoneurosis, tuberculosis, systemic fungal infections or acute viral infections, especially herpes zoster infection in the eye.

Salt and fluid retention, difficulty urinating, indigestion, increased appetite, stunted growth, menstrual disorders, dizziness, blurred vision, metal disorders, osteonecrosis, dry mouth, muscle relaxation and Cushingoid syndrome, active stomach ulcers, systemic infection and vertigo.

- Concomitant use with hypnotics/sedatives may increase the sedative effect.

- Concomitant use with certain diuretics may increase the effects of hypokalemia.

Not recommended.

- Not recommended in pregnant and lactating women, the elderly and patients with impaired liver function, hypertension, chronic renal failure, stress, uremia, glaucoma and prostatic hypertrophy.

- While taking this medication should not drive a motor vehicle on run the engine.

- Not recommended in children under 6 age. Long-term use of corticosteroids to children should be accompanied by careful observation of growth and development.

- The use of long-term can lower the body’s resistance to infection.

- Careful use in patients with specific ulcerative colitis, peptic ulcers, heart problems, epilepsy, myasthenia gravis, osteoporosis.

- Careful use in patients with diabetes, because it can increase the risk of gluconeogenesis and reduced sensitivity to insulin.

DEXTAMINE contain dexamethasone, as one of glucocorticoid that has anti-inflammatory activity, antirheumatic and anti-allergic, combined with Dexchlorpheniramine maleate as an antihistamine that works to prevent and combat the symptoms caused by histamine.