HEMASTAD Oral solution

Indication:

The prevention and treatment of iron-deficiency anemia such as hypochromic anemia associated with pregnancy, breastfeeding infants, children, chronic or acute blood loss, dietary restriction, metabolic disease and post-surgical convalescence.

Dosage:

Curative treatment:

- Adult: 2-4 ampoules/day

- Children, breastfeeding infants: 5-10 mg iron/kg/day

Preventive treatment:

Pregnany women: 1 ampoule/day

Administration

Hemastad is only administered orally.

- The contents of the ampoule can be diluted with water (with sucrose in infants).

- It should be taken before meals, divided several times a day.

・Patient with a known hypersensitivity to any of ingredients.

・Hemochromatosis and hemosiderosis. Evidence of iron overload.

・Evidence of iron overload.

Constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting dark stools and abdominal pain.

・Antacids: may decrease iron absorption.

・Quinolones (e.g., ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, ofloxacin): oral elemental iron may interfere with oral absorption of these antiinfective agents.

・Tetracyclines: iron inhibitors absorption of tetracyclines from the GI tract and vice versa, leading to decrease serum concentrations of both tetracyclines and iron. Therefore, oral preparations containing iron should not be administered concomitantly with or within 2 hours of a dose of these drugs.

Pregnancy:

Routine prophylactic iron supplementation currently is recommended for all pregnant women. Iron is distributed into milk.

Lactation

Therefore, ask doctor before use.

・Occasional gastrointestinal discomfort (such as nausea) may be minimized by taking with meals.

・Excessive tea intake may inhibit iron absorption.

・Each ampoule contains 5g of saccharose.

・For the teeth are not blackened, avoid keeping drug long in mouth.

・Preventive treatment of iron deficiency in children by applying premature the diet more variously.

・Administration of iron for longer than 6 months should be avoided except in patients with continued bleeding, menorrhagia or repeated pregnancies.