ZINC SULFATE is a brand name for Zinc Sulfate. The medicine, its uses, side effects and dosage are the same regardless of brand.
Used for: For the treatment of zinc deficiency which can occur in individuals on an inadequate diet, in malabsorption with increased tissue loss due to trauma, burns, and protein-losing conditions and during intravenous feeding. Zinc sulfate is a source of zinc which is an essential trace element and involved in a number of…
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Posology One capsule to be taken three times a day an hour before food or two hours after meals. Paediatric population The safety and efficacy of Zinc Sulfate Capsules in children under the age of 12 years have not yet been established.
2 but no recommendation on a posology can be made. Method of administration Oral use.
Gastro-intestinal disturbances such as abdominal pain, dyspepsia, epigastric pain, gastric irritation, gastritis, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, leukopenia (fever, chills or sore throat) and neutropenia (continuing ulcers and sores in mouths), headache, lethargy, irritation.
Zinc may interfere with the absorption of copper, leading to reduced copper levels, and potentially copper deficiency. g. 4) and/or with higher doses of zinc. g. g. anaemia, neutropenia, leucopenia and pancytopenia. Reporting of suspected adverse reactions Reporting suspected adverse reactions after authorisation of the medicinal product is important.
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Therapy should continue until clinical improvement occurs and be replaced by dietary measures unless there is severe malabsorption, metabolic disease or continuing zinc loss. 8). Zinc capsules should be taken two hours before eating fibre containing foods and should not be taken within two hours of iron, copper or phosphorous supplements.
Zinc levels may accumulate in acute renal failure. Patients with rare hereditary problems of galactose intolerance, the Lapp lactase deficiency or glucose-galactose malabsorption should not take this medicine.
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