Amoxicillin 250mg Capsules Amoxicillin 500mg Capsules

1 PACKAGE LEAFLET: Pregnancy and breast-feeding INFORMATION FOR THE USER If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning Amoxicillin 250mg to have a baby, ask your doctor or Capsules pharmacist for advice before taking this Amoxicillin 500mg medicine. Amoxicillin passes into breast Capsules milk, so tell your doctor if you are breast- ( Amoxicillin ) feeding. Ask your doctor for advice before taking any medicine. Read all of this leaflet carefully before Driving and using machines you start taking this medicine. Amoxicillin can have side effects - Keep this leaflet. You may need to and the symptoms (such as allergic read it again. reactions,dizziness and convulsions) may - If you have any further questions, ask make you unfit to drive.

2 Do not drive or your doctor or pharmacist. operate machinery unless you are feeling - This medicine has been prescribed for well. you only. Do not pass it on to 3. HOW TO TAKE Amoxicillin . others. It may harm them, even if their Capsules . signs of illness are the same as yours. Always take this medicine exactly as your - If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist has told you. Check doctor or pharmacist. This includes with your doctor or pharmacist if you are any possible side effects not listed in not sure. this leaflet. See section 4 - Swallow with water without opening In this leaflet: capsule. 1. What Amoxicillin Capsules are and - Space the doses evenly during the what they are used for day, at least 4 hours apart.

3 2. What you need to know before you Children weighing less than 40kg who take Amoxicillin Capsules are able to swallow Capsules 3. How to take Amoxicillin Capsules All doses are worked out depending on 4. Possible side effects the child's body weight in kilograms. 5. How to store Amoxicillin Capsules Your doctor will advise you how much 6. Contents of the pack and other Amoxicillin Capsules you should give to information your baby or child. 1. WHAT Amoxicillin Capsules Usual dose - 40mg to 90mg for each ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE USED kilogram of body weight a day, given in FOR two or three divided doses. The maximum recommended dose Amoxicillin Capsules contain Amoxicillin is 100mg for each kilogram of body as the active ingredient which belongs to a class of antibiotics called penicillins'.

4 Weight a day. Amoxicillin Capsules are used to treat Adults, elderly patients and children infections caused by bacteria in different weighing 40 kg or more parts of the body. Amoxicillin Capsules The usual dose of Amoxicillin is 250 mg to may also be used in combination with 500 mg three times a day or 750 mg to 1 g other medicines to treat stomach ulcers. every 12 hours, depending on the severity 2. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW and type of infection. BEFORE YOU TAKE Amoxicillin Severe infections: 750 mg to 1 g Capsules three times a day Urinary tract infection: 3 g twice daily Do not take Amoxicillin Capsules for one day. if you are allergic to Amoxicillin , Lyme disease (an infection spread penicillin or any of the other by parasites called ticks): Isolated ingredients of this medicine (listed in erythema migrans (early stage - red or section 6) pink circular rash): 4 g a day, if you have ever had an allergic Systemic manifestations (late stage - reaction to any antibiotic.)

5 This can for more serious symptoms or when include a skin rash or swelling of the the disease spreads around yur body): face or throat up to 6 g a day. Do not take Amoxicillin if any of the Stomach ulcers: one 750 mg or one above apply. If you are not sure, talk 1 g dose twice a day for 7 days with to your doctor or pharmacist before other antibiotics and medicines to treat taking Amoxicillin . stomach ulcers. Warnings and precautions To prevent heart infection during Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before surgery: the dose will vary according taking Amoxicillin Capsules if you: to the type of surgery. Other medicines suffer from kidney problems, since you may also be given at the same time. may need a lower dose.

6 Your doctor, pharmacist or nurse can have glandular fever (fever, sore give you more details. throat, swollen glands and extreme The maximum recommended dose is tiredness), lymphatic leukemia or HIV. 6 g per day. infection, since you may be more prone to developing a skin rash. Kidney problems are not urinating regularly If you have kidney problems the dose might be lower than the usual dose. If you are not sure if any of the above apply to you, talk to your doctor or If you take more Amoxicillin Capsules pharmacist before taking Amoxicillin . than you should Having urine or blood tests If you have taken too much Amoxicillin If you are having: Capsules , signs might be an upset Urine tests (glucose) or blood tests for stomach (feeling sick, being sick or liver function diarrhoea) or crystals in the urine, which Oestriol tests (used during pregnancy may be seen as cloudy urine, or problems to check the baby is developing urinating.)

7 Talk to your doctor as soon as normally) possible. Take the medicine to show the Tell your doctor or pharmacist that you doctor. are taking Amoxicillin . This is because If you forget to take Amoxicillin Amoxicillin can affect the results of these Capsules tests. If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you Other medicines and Amoxicillin remember and carry on as before. If it is Capsules almost time for your next dose, skip the Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are missed dose and continue as usual. Do taking, have recently taken or might not take a double dose to make up for a take any other medicines. forgotten dose. If you are taking allopurinol (used for How long should you take Amoxicillin gout) with Amoxicillin , it may be more for?

8 Likely that you will have an allergic skin reaction. Keep taking Amoxicillin until the If you are taking probenecid (used for treatment is finished, even you feel gout), your doctor may decide to adjust better. You need every dose to help the dose of Amoxicillin . fight the infection. If some bacteria If you are taking medicines to help stop survive they can cause the infection blood clots (such as warfarin), you may to come back. Treatment should need extra blood tests. be continued for 2 to 3 days after If you are taking other antibiotics (such symptoms have gone. as tetracycline) Amoxicillin may be less You should not need to take Amoxicillin effective. for more than 2 weeks. If you still feels If you are taking methotrexate (used unwell you should go back to see your for the treatment of cancer and severe doctor.)

9 Psoriasis) Amoxicillin may cause an Thrush (a yeast infection of moist areas of increase in side effects. the body which can cause soreness, Amoxicillin Capsules with food and itching and white discharge) may P15 XXXXX. drink develop if Amoxicillin is used for These Capsules may be taken before, a long time. If this occurs tell your during or after your meals. doctor. Black If you take Amoxicillin for a long dizziness time, your doctor may perform hyperactivity additional tests to check your crystals in the urine, which may be kidneys, liver and blood are seen as cloudy urine, or difficulty or working normally. discomfort in passing urine. Make sure If you have any further questions you drink plenty of fluids to reduce on the use of this medicine, ask the chance of these symptoms.

10 Your doctor or pharmacist. the tongue may change to yellow, brown or black and it may have a hairy 4. POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS appearance. an excessive breakdown of red blood Like all medicines, Amoxicillin Capsules cells causing a type of anaemia. can cause side effects, although not Signs include: tiredness, headaches, everyone gets them. shortness of breath, looking pale and Stop taking Amoxicillin Capsules and yellowing of the skin and the whites of see a doctor straight away, if you the eyes. notice any of the following serious side low number of white blood cells effects - you may need urgent medical low number of cells involved with blood treatment: clotting The following are very rare (may affect up the blood may take longer to clot than to 1 in 10,000 people) it normally would.