Visicare 5 mg 30 tablets

Product Description:

Solifenacin Succinate 5 mg Film Coated Tablets

What is solifenacin used for?

• Solifenacin belongs to a group of drugs called anticholinergics. These drugs are used to reduce the activity of an overactive bladder.
• This allows you to wait longer before going to the bathroom and increases the amount of urine your bladder can hold.
• Solifenacin is used to treat the symptoms of a condition called overactive bladder.
• These symptoms include: having a sudden, strong urge to urinate without warning, having to urinate frequently, or wetting yourself because you couldn't get to the bathroom in time.

Do not use solifenacin:

• Do not take solifenacin succinate if you:
• You are allergic to solifenacin or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6)
• Inability to pass water or empty the bladder completely (urinary retention)
• You have a severe stomach or intestinal condition (including toxic megacolon, a complication of ulcerative colitis)
• He has a muscle disease called myasthenia gravis, which can cause severe weakness in certain muscles.
• Suffer or are at risk of suffering from increased pressure in the eye, with gradual loss of vision (glaucoma)
• They are on dialysis.
• They have severe liver disease.
• have severe kidney disease or moderate liver disease and are being treated at the same time with medicines that may reduce the removal of solifenacin from the body (eg, ketoconazole). Your doctor or pharmacist will tell you if this is the case

Warnings and Precautions:

• Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking solifenacin succinate if you:
• You have difficulty emptying your bladder (bladder obstruction) or difficulty urinating (such as a thin stream of urine). Your risk of urine building up in your bladder (urinary retention) is much higher.
• They have some obstruction in the digestive system (such as constipation).
• Are at risk of slowed gastrointestinal (GI) movements. Your doctor will tell you if this is the case.
• He has severe kidney disease.
• They have moderate liver disease.
• You are taking certain medicines known as CYP3A4 inhibitors (such as ketoconazole) which may increase the amount of solifenacin in your blood.
• You have a stomach tear (hiatus hernia) or heartburn and/or are taking certain medications (such as biphosphate) that can cause or worsen esophagitis.
• They have a neurological disorder (autonomic neuropathy).
• You have changes in your heart rhythm (shown on an ECG) or low levels of potassium in your blood.

Possible side effects:

• Stop using the product and seek immediate medical attention if you experience tightness in your throat, swelling of your eyes, face, lips, or tongue, feel faint, or have difficulty breathing.
• Stop using the product if you experience hives or itching on the face or body.

Other medicines and solifenacin:

• Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines.
• It is especially important to tell your doctor if you are taking:
• Other anticholinergic medications (such as atropine, oxybutynin, hydroxyzine, bupropion, dextromethorphan) because they may increase the effects and side effects of both medications.
• Cholinergics (drugs such as carbachol and pilocarpine) as they can reduce the effect of solifenacin.
• Medicines, such as metoclopramide and cisapride, that make the digestive system work faster.
• Solifenacin can reduce its effect.
• Medicines, such as ketoconazole, ritonavir, nelfinavir, itraconazole, verapamil and diltiazem, that decrease the rate at which solifenacin is broken down in the body
• Medicines such as rifampicin, phenytoin and carbamazepine, because they may increase the rate at which solifenacin is broken down in the body.

How to use Solifenacin:

• The recommended dose is 5 mg per day, unless your doctor tells you to take 10 mg per day.

How to store solifenacin:

• Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children.
• For bottle package only: After first opening, use within 100 days.
• Do not use this medicine after the expiry date which is stated on the carton/blister/bottle after EXP.
• The expiration date refers to the last day of the same month.
• This medicine does not require any special storage conditions.