Patient Leaflet Updated 23-May-2019 | Martindale Pharma, an Ethypharm Group Company
Phenylephrine 0.1 mg/ml, solution for injection
Phenylephrine 0.1 mg/ml, solution for injection
phenylephrine
1. What Phenylephrine is and what it is used for
2. What you need to know before you use Phenylephrine
3. How to use Phenylephrine
4. Possible side effects
5. How to store Phenylephrine
6. Contents of the pack and other information
This drug belongs to a group called adrenergic or dopaminergic agents. Phenylephrine is used to treat low blood pressure that can occur during different types of anaesthesia.
Talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse before using Phenylephrine :
In patients with serious heart failure phenylephrine may worsen the heart failure as a consequence of blood vessel constriction.
The blood pressure in your arteries will be monitored during treatment. If you have heart disease, additional monitoring of vital functions will be performed.
The medicine is not recommended for use in children due to insufficient data on efficacy, safety and dosage recommendations.
Tell your doctor, pharmacist or nurse if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines.
Do not use Phenylephrine with:
The following medicines may affect or be affected by concomitant use:
If you are pregnant or breast•feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor, pharmacist or nurse for advice before taking this medicine.
Pregnancy
This medication should not be used during pregnancy unless absolutely necessary.
Breast•feeding
This medication should not be used during breast•feeding unless it is absolutely necessary. However, in the event of a single administration during childbirth, breast•feeding is possible.
Not relevant.
The administration will be performed by a health•care professional with appropriate training and relevant experience.
Your doctor or nurse will give you Phenylephrine into a vein (intravenously). Your doctor will decide the right dose for you and when and how it should be injected.
Lower doses of phenylephrine may be needed in patients with impaired renal function.
Higher doses of phenylephrine may be needed in patients with cirrhosis of the liver.
Treatment in older people should be carried out with care.
It is not recommended for use in children due to insufficient data on efficacy, safety and dosage recommendations.
Signs that indicates that you have received too much Phenylephrine is a faster and irregular heart beat, headache, nausea, vomiting, paranoid psychosis, hallucinations and hypertension.
It is unlikely that this will happen because you will get this medicine at a hospital.
Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
The following adverse reactions have been reported:
Some side effects may be serious. Tell your doctor straight away if you get any of the following:
Other side effects may include (frequencies are not known):
If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. You can also report side effects directly via the Yellow Card Scheme at: Website: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard
By reporting side effects you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.
Keep the ampoules in the outer carton in order to protect from light.
Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children.
Do not use this medicine after the expiry date which is stated on the carton after EXP. The expiry date refers to the last day of that month.
Do not throw away any medicines via wastewater or household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to throw away medicines you no longer use. These measures will help protect the environment.
Clear and colourless solution.
Phenylephrine 0.1 mg/ml, solution for injection, is available in glass ampoules of 5 ml and 10 ml.
The ampoules are packaged in trays of plastic and then in cartons of 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 ampoules.
Not all pack sizes may be marketed.
This leaflet was last revised in November 2018.
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