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Package leaflet: Information for the patient

Natriumklorid Abcur 500 mg, film-coated tablet

sodium chloride

Read all of this leaflet carefully before you start using this medicine because it contains important information for you.

• Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.

• If you have any further questions, ask your doctor, pharmacist or nurse.

- This medicine has been prescribed for you only. Do not pass it on to others. It may harm them, even if their signs of illness are the same as yours.

What is in this leaflet

1. What Natriumklorid Abcur is and what it is used for

2. What you need to know before you use Natriumklorid Abcur

3. How to use Natriumklorid Abcur

4. Possible side effects

6. Contents of the pack and other information

Natriumklorid Abcur is used to treat sodium deficiency due to that you have e.g. short bowel (ostomy) or have a disease called SIADH (Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion). The active substance in Natriumklorid Abcur is sodium chloride, a substance important for the fluid balance in the body.

Do not use Natriumklorid Abcur:

- if you are allergic to sodium chloride or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6).

- if you have severe renal impairment

- if you have symptoms of heart failure despite treatment

- if you have fluid retention

- if you have severe hepatic impairment (cirrhosis)

- if you have preeclampsia

Warnings and precautions

Talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse before using Natriumklorid Abcur

• if you have heart failure

• if you have reduced kidney/liver function

• if you have high blood pressure

• if you use medicines containing cortison

Other medicines and Natriumklorid Abcur

Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are using, have recently used or might use any other medicines. Natriumklorid Abcur may affect or be affected if you use any of the the following:

- medicines for lowering the blood pressure

- medicines containing litium

Pregnancy breast-feeding and fertility

No known effects at recommended doses.

Driving and using machines

No effects on the abilityto drive oruse machineshave been demonstrated.

Always use this medicine exactly as described in this leaflet or as your doctor, pharmacist or nurse have told you. Check with your doctor, pharmacist or nurse if you are not sure.

Adults: individual dosage, up to 20 tablets per day divided in several dosage occasions.

The tablets should be swollowed whole.

If you use more Natriumklorid than you should

If you have taken more of this medicine than directed, or if a child accidentally has taken this medicine, please contact your doctor or emergency unit for judgement of the risk and advice.

If you have taken too much Natriumklorid Abcur you may suffer from the following: thirst, reduced salivation, swollen tongue, heart rush, blood pressure fall, accumulation of fluid in the brain or body, headache, restlessness, dizziness, cramps in the stomach, vomiting, diarrhoea. Coma and respiratory arrest can occur in severe cases.

If you forget to use Natriumklorid Abucr

Do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten tablet.

If you stop using Natriumklorid Abcur

If you have any further questions on the use of this medicine, ask your doctor, pharmacist or nurse.

4. Possible side effects

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

The following side effects have been reported (occurs in unknown number of users):

Nausea, vomiting.

Reporting of side effects

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 national reporting system listed in Appendix V*. By reporting side effects you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.

5. How to store Natriumklorid Abcur

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 label 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.

6. Contents of the pack and other information

What Natriumklorid Abcur contains

• The active substance is sodium chloride.

• The other ingredients are talc, microcrystalline cellulose, hypromellose, macrogol.

What Natriumklorid Abcur looks like and contents of the pack

Plastic jar with 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 98 or 100 tablets.

Marketing Authorisation Holder

Abcur AB, Box 1452, 251 14, Helsingborg, Sweden

Manufacturer

Viminco, Skælskør, Denmark

This leaflet was last revised in 2014-10-21