Calcium Chloride Injection 10 millimoles in 10 ml

• Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
• If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
• If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist . This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. See section 4.

This medicine will be referred to as Calcium Chloride Injection in the rest of this leaflet

1. What Calcium Chloride Injection is and what it is used for
2. Before Calcium Chloride Injection is given
3. How Calcium Chloride Injection will be given
4. Possible side effects
5. How to store Calcium Chloride Injection
6. Contents of the pack and other information

• you are allergic to calcium salts or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6)
• you have breathing problems or dangerously fast heart beat (ventricular fibrillation)
• you have, or have ever had, kidney stones
• you are aware that you have an excess of calcium in your blood or urine or are being treated for magnesium deficiency
• you suffer from high levels of vitamin D (disorder known as sarcoidosis)
• you have heart problems
• If the patient is a baby less than 28 days old and is being given Calcium Chloride Injection, they cannot be given Ceftriaxone.

Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before being given Calcium Chloride Injection if:

• you have problems with your lungs or difficulty breathing
• you have problems with your kidneys

Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines.

Medicines that may interact with Calcium Chloride Injection include:

• medicines used to treat for problems in passing urine (thiazide diuretics)
• medicines containing magnesium
• medicines containing potassium
• medicines used to treat heart problems e.g. digitalis
• medicines used to treat bacterial infections (antibiotics) e.g. ceftriaxone and tetracyclines

This product must not be mixed with any other product containing any carbonates, bicarbonates, phosphates, sulphates or tartrates.

If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before using this medicine.

Calcium Chloride may make you dizzy or drowsy. If you feel dizzy or drowsy you should not drive or operate machinery.

• An initial injection or infusion (drip) of up to 10 millimoles (at a rate not exceeding 1 millimole per minute) may be given. This may be continued by infusion of up to 10 millimoles per day.

2 to 12 years of age:

• 0.5 millimoles to 3.5 millimoles by intravenous infusion after dilution with at least 4 times its volume of sodium chloride intravenous infusion (0.9% w/v)
• the dose may be repeated every one to three days

Under 2 years of age:

• less than 0.5 millimoles by intravenous infusion after dilution with at least 4 times its volume of sodium chloride intravenous infusion (0.9% w/v)
• the dose may be repeated every one to three days

The precise amount that you are given depends on how much your doctor believes you need. In the case of children a doctor qualified in the diseases of children should decide how much is given.

As this medicine will be given to you whilst you are in hospital, it is unlikely that you will be given too little or too much. However, if you think you have been given too much of this medicine, please tell your doctor or nurse.

The signs of an overdose may be reduced appetite, feeling sick, being sick, constipation, muscle weakness, mental disturbances, feeling thirsty, urinate a lot, pain in your bones or kidney pain. In severe cases it could lead to your heart not beating properly and you could go into a coma.

If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. You can also report side effects directly via Yellow Card Scheme. Website: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard or search for MHRA Yellow Card in the Google Play or Apple App Store. By reporting side effects, you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.

The active ingredient is Calcium Chloride, Dihydrate 14.7 % w/v

The other ingredient is Water for Injections. The pH may be adjusted with hydrochloric acid.

The injection is supplied in colourless glass ampoules containing 5 or 10 ml of product. The ampoules are supplied to your doctor or pharmacist in packs of 10 ampoules.

Product licence number: PL 01883/6174R