Movicol Paediatric Sachet 6's
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About Movicol Paediatric Sachet
Movicol Paediatric Sachet belongs to a class of drugs called laxatives, used to treat constipation. Constipation refers to infrequent bowel movements in which the stools are often dry, painful, and hard to pass.
Movicol Paediatric Sachet contains Polyethylene glycol, Potassium chloride, Sodium bicarbonate, and Sodium chloride. Movicol Paediatric Sachet works by drawing water into the intestine, softening stools, and making them easier to pass. It also helps replenish electrolytes.
In some cases, you may experience stomach pain, indigestion, mild diarrhoea, nausea, or vomiting. Most of these side effects of Movicol Paediatric Sachet do not require medical attention and typically resolve on their own over time. However, if the side effects persist or worsen, please consult your doctor.
If you are allergic to Movicol Paediatric Sachet or any other medicines, please tell your doctor. Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended for children below 12 years of age. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, please consult a doctor before taking Movicol Paediatric Sachet.
Uses of Movicol Paediatric Sachet
Movicol Paediatric Sachet is used in the treatment of Constipation. The detailed uses of Movicol Paediatric Sachet are as follows:
- Constipation relief: Movicol Paediatric Sachet helps retain water in the colon to soften stools and ease bowel movements.
- Bowel cleansing: Movicol Paediatric Sachet used before medical procedures like colonoscopy to effectively clear the intestines.
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Directions for Use
- Movicol Paediatric Sachet can be taken with or without food, or as advised by your doctor.
- Follow your doctor's instructions on the dosage and timing of this medication.
- Check the label for directions. Dilute Movicol Paediatric Sachet with water as advised by your doctor. Take it orally using the measuring cup provided with the package.
- Shake the bottle well before each use.
Key Benefits
- Movicol Paediatric Sachet is a combination of Polyethylene glycol, Potassium chloride, Sodium bicarbonate, and Sodium chloride. It is primarily used to relieve constipation and promote comfortable bowel movements.
- Polyethylene glycol works by drawing water into the intestines, softening the stools, and cleansing the gastrointestinal tract, making stool passage easier.
- Potassium chloride supports the healthy functioning of muscles, nerves, and organs, maintaining electrolyte balance.
- Sodium bicarbonate helps neutralise excess stomach acid, providing relief from acidity, bloating, and heartburn.
- Sodium chloride aids in maintaining proper sodium and fluid balance in the body.
- Movicol Paediatric Sachet helps in softening stools, easing bowel movements, restoring electrolyte balance, and relieving constipation effectively.
How Movicol Paediatric Sachet Works
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- Drink water or other clear fluids.
- To prevent worsening of pain, limit intake of tea, coffee, or alcohol.
- Include bland foods like rice, toast, crackers, and rice in your diet.
- Avoid lying down immediately after eating as it may cause indigestion or heartburn.
- Avoid acidic and spicy food as it may cause indigestion.
- Inform Your Doctor: Notify your doctor immediately about your diarrhoea symptoms. This allows them to adjust your medication or provide guidance on managing side effects.
- Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of fluids to replace lost water and electrolytes. Choose water, clear broth, and electrolyte-rich drinks. Avoid carbonated or caffeinated beverages to effectively rehydrate your body.
- Follow a Bland Diet: Eat easy-to-digest foods to help firm up your stool and settle your stomach. Try incorporating bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, plain crackers, and boiled vegetables into your diet.
- Avoid Trigger Foods: Steer clear of foods that can worsen diarrhoea, such as spicy, fatty, or greasy foods, high-fibre foods, and dairy products (especially if you're lactose intolerant).
- Practice Good Hygiene: Maintain good hygiene to prevent the spread of infection. To stay healthy, wash your hands frequently, clean and disinfect surfaces regularly, and avoid exchanging personal belongings with others.
- Take Anti-Diarrheal Medications: If your doctor advises, anti-diarrheal medications such as loperamide might help manage diarrhoea symptoms. Always follow your doctor's directions.
- Keep track of your diarrhoea symptoms. If they don't get better or worse or are accompanied by severe stomach pain, blood, or dehydration signs (like extreme thirst or dark urine), seek medical help.
- Preventing Vomiting (Before it Happens)
- Take medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. This can help minimize side effects, including vomiting.
- Having a small meal before taking your medication can help reduce nausea and vomiting.
- Talk to your doctor about taking anti-nausea medication along with your prescribed medication.
- Managing Vomiting (If it Happens)
- Try taking ginger in the form of tea, ale, or candy to help alleviate nausea and vomiting.
- What to Do if Vomiting Persists
- Consult your doctor if vomiting continues or worsens, consult the doctor for guidance on adjusting your medication or additional treatment.
- Inform your doctor about the nausea and discuss possible alternatives to the medication or adjustments to the dosage.
- Divide your daily food intake into smaller, more frequent meals to reduce nausea.
- Opt for bland, easily digestible foods like crackers, toast, plain rice, bananas, and applesauce.
- Avoid certain foods that can trigger nausea, such as fatty, greasy, spicy, and smelly foods.
- Drink plenty of fluids, such as water, clear broth, or electrolyte-rich beverages like coconut water or sports drinks.
- Use ginger (tea, ale, or candies) to help relieve nausea.
- Get adequate rest and also avoid strenuous activities that can worsen nausea.
- Talk to your doctor about taking anti-nausea medication if your nausea is severe.
- Record when your nausea occurs, what triggers it, and what provides relief to help you identify patterns and manage your symptoms more effectively.
- Report the itching to your doctor immediately; they may need to change your medication or dosage.
- Use a cool, damp cloth on the itchy area to help soothe and calm the skin, reducing itching and inflammation.
- Keep your skin hydrated and healthy with gentle, fragrance-free moisturizers.
- Try not to scratch, as this can worsen the itching and irritate your skin.
- If your doctor prescribes, you can take oral medications or apply topical creams or ointments to help relieve itching.
- Track your itching symptoms and follow your doctor's guidance to adjust your treatment plan if needed. If the itching persists, consult your doctor for further advice.
- Hydrate your body: Drink enough water to prevent dehydration and headaches.
- Calm Your Mind: Deep breathing and meditation can help you relax and relieve stress.
- Rest and Recharge: Sleep for 7-8 hours to reduce headache triggers.
- Take rest: lie down in a quiet, dark environment.
- Cold or warm compresses can help reduce tension.
- Stay Upright: Maintain good posture to keep symptoms from getting worse.
- To treat headaches naturally, try acupuncture or massage therapy.
- Over-the-counter pain relievers include acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
- Prescription Assistance: Speak with your doctor about more substantial drug alternatives.
- Severe Headaches: Seek emergency medical assistance for sudden, severe headaches.
- Frequent Headaches: If you get reoccurring headaches, consult your doctor.
- Headaches with Symptoms: Seek medical attention if your headaches include fever, disorientation, or weakness.
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Drug Warnings
- If you are allergic to Movicol Paediatric Sachet or any other medicines, please tell your doctor.
- If you have ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, inform your doctor before taking Movicol Paediatric Sachet.
- Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended for children below 12 years of age.
- If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, please consult a doctor before taking Movicol Paediatric Sachet.
- Drink plenty of fluids while taking Movicol Paediatric Sachet.
- Do not take Movicol Paediatric Sachet in more than the recommended doses.
- Discard Movicol Paediatric Sachet after 30 days of first opening the bottle.
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Taking Diphenhydramine with Movicol Paediatric Sachet can increase the risk of stomach ulcers.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Diphenhydramine with Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended, as it can lead to an interaction, but it can be taken if a doctor has prescribed it. However, if you experience severe stomach pain, bloating, sudden lightheadedness or dizziness, nausea, vomiting (especially with blood), decreased hunger, or dark, tarry stools, contact your doctor. Do not stop taking any medication without consulting your doctor.
Taking Dexchlorpheniramine and Movicol Paediatric Sachet can increase the risk of stomach inflammation.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Dexchlorpheniramine with Movicol Paediatric Sachet (in tablet or capsule form) is avoided as it can lead to an interaction, it can be taken if a doctor has prescribed it. However, if you experience severe stomach pain, bloating, lightheadedness, vomiting, or dark stools, consult the doctor immediately. Do not stop using any medications without talking to a doctor.
Taking Clemastine and Movicol Paediatric Sachet(in tablet or capsule form) together can increase the risk of stomach ulcers, bleeding, and other gastrointestinal injury.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Clemastine with Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended, as it can lead to an interaction, can be taken if your doctor has prescribed it. However, if you experience severe stomach pain, bloating, sudden lightheadedness or dizziness, nausea, vomiting (especially with blood), decreased hunger, dark, tarry stools, consult the doctor immediately.
Co-administration of trihexyphenidyl with Movicol Paediatric Sachet can increase the risk of stomach ulcers, bleeding, and gastrointestinal injury.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking trihexyphenidyl with Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended as it can possibly result in an interaction, it can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. However, if you experience abdominal pain, bloating, sudden dizziness or lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting (especially with blood), loss of appetite, black stools contact a doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without consulting to a doctor.
The combination of Amitriptyline and Movicol Paediatric Sachet may cause stomach and upper intestinal discomfort. (Only applicable to an oral preparation)
How to manage the interaction:
Although co-administration of Amitriptyline and Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended as it can possibly lead to an interaction, they can be taken if prescribed by a doctor. If you experience severe stomach pain, bloating, sudden dizziness or lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting (in particular with blood), decreased hunger, and black stools while taking these medications, consult a doctor immediately. Do not discontinue any medications without talking to a doctor.
Taking Difenoxin and Movicol Paediatric Sachet (in tablet or capsule form) together can increase the risk of stomach ulcers, bleeding, and other gastrointestinal injury.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Difenoxin with Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended, as it can lead to an interaction, it can be taken if a doctor has prescribed it. However, if you experience severe stomach pain, bloating, sudden lightheadedness or dizziness, nausea, vomiting (especially with blood), decreased hunger, dark, tarry stools, consult the doctor immediately.
Combining Orphenadrine with Movicol Paediatric Sachet can increase the risk of stomach ulcers.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Orphenadrine (citrate) with Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended, as it can lead to an interaction, can be taken if your doctor has prescribed it. However, if you experience severe stomach pain, bloating, sudden lightheadedness or dizziness, nausea, vomiting (especially with blood), decreased hunger, dark, tarry stools, consult the doctor immediately.
Taking Phenindamine and Movicol Paediatric Sachet (in tablet or capsule form) together can increase the risk of stomach ulcers, bleeding, and other gastrointestinal injury.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Phenindamine with Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended, as it can lead to an interaction, it can be taken if a doctor has prescribed it. However, if you experience severe stomach pain, bloating, sudden lightheadedness or dizziness, nausea, vomiting (especially with blood), decreased hunger, dark, tarry stools, consult the doctor immediately.
Using Eplerenone together with Movicol Paediatric Sachet may significantly increase potassium levels in the blood.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Movicol Paediatric Sachet with eplerenone is not recommended. You can take these medicines if prescribed by a doctor. Consult a doctor if you experience nausea, vomiting, weakness, disorientation, tingling in your hands and feet, feelings of heaviness in your legs, a weak pulse, or an irregular heartbeat, consult the doctor immediately. It is essential to maintain proper fluid intake while taking these medications. Do not discontinue any medications without a doctor's advice.
Taking Propantheline with Movicol Paediatric Sachet can increase the chance of developing stomach ulcers.
How to manage the interaction:
Taking Propantheline with Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended, as it can lead to an interaction, can be taken if a doctor has prescribed it. However, if you experience severe stomach pain, bloating, sudden lightheadedness or dizziness, nausea, vomiting (especially with blood), decreased hunger, dark, tarry stools, consult the doctor immediately.
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Diet & Lifestyle Advise
- Try maintaining a balanced diet, which includes fresh fruits and vegetables.
- Stay hydrated by drinking enough water and fluids.
- Exercise regularly, and stay fit.
- Get enough sleep.
- Eat food rich in fibre, such as whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, flaxseed, nuts, beans, lentils, fruits (berries, apples, oranges, bananas, pears, figs), and vegetables (broccoli, spinach, sweet potatoes, avocados).
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Alcohol
Safe if prescribed
The interaction of alcohol with Movicol Paediatric Sachet is unknown. Please consult a doctor before consuming alcohol while using Movicol Paediatric Sachet.
Pregnancy
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Please consult a doctor if you are pregnant. Movicol Paediatric Sachet is given to pregnant women only if the doctor thinks the benefits outweigh the risks.
Breast Feeding
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Please consult a doctor if you are breastfeeding. Movicol Paediatric Sachet is given to breastfeeding mothers only if the doctor thinks the benefits outweigh the risks.
Driving
Safe if prescribed
Movicol Paediatric Sachet usually does not affect your ability to drive or operate machinery.
Liver
Consult your doctor
Take Movicol Paediatric Sachet with caution, especially if you have a history of Liver diseases/conditions. The dose may be adjusted by your doctor as required.
Kidney
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Take Movicol Paediatric Sachet with caution, especially if you have a history of Kidney diseases/conditions. The dose may be adjusted by your doctor as required.
Children
Safe if prescribed
Movicol Paediatric Sachet is not recommended for children under 12 years of age, as its safety and effectiveness have not been established.
Heart
Movicol Paediatric Sachet should be used with caution in patients with heart problems. Inform your doctor about any heart-related conditions before taking Movicol Paediatric Sachet.
Geriatrics
Consult your doctor
Movicol Paediatric Sachet should be given with caution in elderly patients due to an increased risk of side effects. Seek medical advice before using Movicol Paediatric Sachet.
FAQs
Movicol Paediatric Sachet belongs to a class of drugs called laxatives, used to treat constipation.
Movicol Paediatric Sachet contains Polyethylene glycol, Potassium chloride, Sodium bicarbonate and Sodium chloride. Polyethylene glycol draws water into the intestine and softens stools, making it easier to pass. Potassium chloride is essential for the healthy functioning of organs. Sodium bicarbonate works by neutralising high levels of acid in the stomach, helping to treat acidity and heartburn. Sodium chloride maintains sodium levels in the body. Together, Movicol Paediatric Sachet helps in relieving constipation.
Movicol Paediatric Sachet may cause mild diarrhoea as a side effect at the beginning of the treatment. It usually gets better by reducing the amount of Movicol Paediatric Sachet intake. However, if the condition persists or worsens, please consult a doctor.
You are not recommended to take Movicol Paediatric Sachet with anticonvulsants as it may reduce the effectiveness of anticonvulsants (medicines for epilepsy). However, please consult your doctor before taking Movicol Paediatric Sachet with other medicines.
You are recommended to avoid foods that are high in fat and low in fibre, such as ice cream, red meat, frozen meals, potato chips, cheese, hot dogs and hamburgers.
You are not recommended to take more than the advised dose of Movicol Paediatric Sachet as it may cause excessive diarrhoea that might lead to dehydration. If you have diarrhoea, stop taking Movicol Paediatric Sachet and drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration. However, if the condition persists or worsens, please consult a doctor.
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