Treatment of inflammatory & degenerative forms of rheumatism; acute attacks of gout; post-traumatic & post-op pain, inflammation & swelling; painful &/or inflammatory conditions in gynaecology (eg primary dysmenorrhoea or adnexitis). Adjuvant in severe painful inflammatory infections of the ear, nose or throat.
View Almiral overdosage for action to be taken in the event of an overdose.
Administration
Should be taken with food: Take immediately after meals. Swallow whole, do not chew/crush.
Contraindications
Hypersensitivity. Active gastric/intestinal ulcer, bleeding or perforation. Hepatic, renal & severe cardiac failure. Patients in whom attacks of asthma, urticaria or acute rhinitis are precipitated by aspirin &/or other drugs w/ prostaglandin-synthetase inhibitory activity. Treatment of peri-op pain in setting of CABG surgery. Patients w/ established CV disease (CHF, established ischemic heart & peripheral arterial disease) or uncontrolled HTN. Last trimester of pregnancy.
Rare hereditary problems of galactose intolerance, severe lactase deficiency or glucose-galactose malabsorption. GI bleeding, ulceration or perforation. Monitor blood count; patients w/ defects of haemostasis; asthma, seasonal allergic rhinitis, swelling of the nasal mucosa (ie nasal polyps), COPD or chronic infections of the resp tract (especially if linked to allergic rhinitis-like symptoms), reactions on NSAIDs like asthma exacerbations (so-called intolerance to analgesics/analgesics-asthma), Quincke's edema or urticaria. Hepatic porphyria & impairment. Discontinue use at the 1st appearance of skin rash, mucosal lesions or any other sign of hypersensitivity. Impaired cardiac or renal function, history of HTN. Concomitant use w/ systemic NSAIDs including COX-2 selective inhibitors. Lactation. Elderly.
M01AB05 - diclofenac ; Belongs to the class of acetic acid derivatives and related substances of non-steroidal antiinflammatory and antirheumatic products.
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