Diazepam-ratiopharm 5mg Tablets 10 each

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Ratiopharm diazepam 5 mg tablets ST 10: Information about side effects, dosage, effectiveness and indication.

Quantity:
10 ST
Manufacturer:
ratiopharm GmbH
Indication:
- Acute and chronic stress, arousal and anxiety
- Before or after surgery
- Increased muscle tension
Contraindication:
Against all drug hypersensitivity reactions can occur, then you need to stop taking the drug immediately. If even an allergy to the drug or any of the excipients is known, it should not be used.

Medicines should not be taken to:
- Dependence disorder
- Autoimmune disease with severe muscle weakness (myasthenia gravis)
- Severe respiratory weakness
- Greatly reduced liver function
- Pathological apnea of more than ten seconds during sleep (sleep apnea)



Medicines should only be taken with caution in:
- Acute poisoning with alcohol, sleeping and pain medications (antipsychotics, antidepressants and lithium)
- Movement Disorders, starting from the cerebellum and spinal cord (spinocerebellar ataxia and spinal)
- Acute disturbed outflow of aqueous humor (glaucoma / angle-closure glaucoma)

- Because of the muscle relaxant effect is particularly in the elderly care (fall risk) offered.
- Newborns and infants may be up to the age of 6 months should not take the medicine.
- Children and adolescents should take the drug only when strictly necessary.
- Depressed by the ingestion of the drug can be enhanced.
Dosage:
Tension, agitation, anxiety:
- At the beginning of 1-2 times a day 1 tablet per day (equivalent to 5 mg of diazepam)
- If required, the amount may be increased up to 2 tablets per day (equivalent to 10 mg diazepam).
- In severe stress, anxiety and excitement, the amount will be increased gradually to 3-6 times 2 tablets per day (equivalent to 30-60 mg diazepam).

Increased muscle tension:
- At the beginning of 2 to 4 times daily 1 tablet (equivalent to 10 to 20 mg diazepam)
- After 1-1 tablet 2 times daily (equivalent to 5 to 10 mg diazepam)

Before or after surgery
- On the eve of Operation: 2-4 tablets (equivalent to 10 to 20 mg diazepam)
- After the Operation: 1-2 tablets (equivalent to 5 to 10 mg diazepam)

Special quantity information:
- Elderly or debilitated people, and people with organic brain damage, circulatory and respiratory failure, and hepatic and renal function, children over 3 years and adolescents take up to 14 years usually one half the daily amount specified above, ie first 1 / 2 tablet (equivalent to 2.5 mg of diazepam) to a maximum of 1 tablet (equivalent to 5 mg of diazepam).
Patient information:
- For acute symptoms, the dose of the medicine shall be limited to individual income or a few days.
- For chronic complaints, the duration of administration depends on the course.
- After two weeks of daily dosing should the doctor through a gradual reduction of the amount to be determined whether a dose is still needed.
- The treatment period should not exceed 4 weeks.
- For a long time taking control of blood counts and liver function are recommended.
Pregnancy:
During pregnancy and lactation, you should take medication as possible only after consultation with your doctor or pharmacist!

- The drug should be used during pregnancy only if clearly necessary in exceptional cases, not be taken in high doses or for a longer period.
- The active substance passes into the baby's blood and accumulates there.
- When taking in large amounts or over a longer period of habituation and dependence, it can cause withdrawal symptoms in newborns occur (increased activity, irritability, low blood pressure, low body temperature, respiratory weakness, poor sucking reflex).
- The active substance is excreted in breast milk. While taking the drug should not be breastfed.
- In cases of imperative necessity of a taking should be discontinued.
Art / fashion:
- The tablets take during the day, swallowed whole without food, with sufficient liquid
- In the evening the tablets about 1 / 2 hour before bedtime and do not take on a full stomach, otherwise with a delayed onset of action and are expected to depend on the duration of sleep, with enhanced after-effects the next morning must.
Interactions:
- For continuous use of other drugs, e.g. antihypertensive drugs that act in the brain (centrally acting agents), beta blockers or anticoagulants are not the type and extent of interactions certainly predictable.
Other:
- Not all forms of tension, excitement and anxiety or insomnia drug intake is necessary. Often, physical or mental disorders are the cause for it and can be influenced by other measures.
- The drug does not take a single depression or anxiety that occurs along with depression.
- The ability to drive or work with machinery for ingestion of the drug may be impaired. This applies particularly in combination with alcohol. Therefore, the driving of vehicles, operate machinery, or other dangerous activities completely, but at least be avoided during the first few days of ingestion.
- With alcohol, the effects of the drug in an unpredictable manner to be changed and enhanced. Therefore, alcohol should be avoided during an intake.
- Even at a daily intake over a few weeks there is a risk of developing dependence. This applies not only to the abuse of particularly high levels, but also for the quantities mentioned above.
- The risk of dependence is higher especially alcohol or drug addicts.
- The risk of dependence increases with the level of quantity and duration of use.
- The need for revenue is in short time intervals by a doctor to examine.
- After taking a long (one week) gradual reduction of the amounts to withdrawal symptoms, such as Restlessness, anxiety, sleep disorders or seizures should be avoided.

- May have conflicting reactions such as restlessness, agitation, irritability, aggression, delusions, rages, nightmares, hallucinations or inappropriate behavior when taking the drug. The intake is to stop then.
- Such reactions occur in children and older people are more likely to than others.