Type:10 Tablets
Generic Name:Cinnarizine
Manufacturer:The ACME Laboratories Ltd.
Price:৳10.00
Nausea and vomiting, motion sickness, vertigo, meniere's disease, peripheral vascular diseases, cerebrovascular disorders, vestibular disorders
Should be taken with food.
Oral Peripheral vascular disease Adult: 75 mg bid or tid. Motion sickness Adult: 30 mg 2 hr before travel then 15 mg 8 hrly during the journey if necessary. Cerebrovascular disorders Adult: 75 mg once daily. Vertigo and vestibular disorders Adult: 30 mg tid or 75 mg 1-2 times daily.
Oral Motion sickness Child: 5-12 yr 15 mg 2 hr before travel then 7.5 mg 8 hrly during the journey as necessary. Vertigo and vestibular disorders Child: 5-12 yr 15 mg tid.
Proven hypersensitivity to the drug. Parkinson's disease. Childn and neonates.
Cinnarizine has calcium-channel blocking activity selective for arterial smooth muscle. It also has some antihistamine activity. Cinnarizine acts as a labyrinthine sedative. It also improves microcirculation by reducing ischaemia-induced blood viscosity.
Hypotension; pregnancy; lactation; elderly. May impair ability to drive or operate machineries.
Extrapyramidal symptoms sometimes associated with severe depression. Drowsiness, headache, GI upsets, unsteadiness, headache; rarely skin and hypersensitivity reactions, dry mouth, blurred vision, urinary difficulty or retention, constipation and increased gastric reflux, fatigue. Hypolipidaemic effect.
CNS depressant effect enhanced with alcohol. Action potentiated by domperidone. Increased sedative effect w/ CNS depressants or TCAs.
