Description
Polopiryna C is a medicinal product for use in pain of various origins, fever (accompanying colds) with analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties.
Composition
The active substances are: acetylsalicylic acid ( Acidum acetylsalicylicum ), vitamin C - ascorbic acid ( Acidum ascorbicum ).
1 tablet contains 500 mg of acetylsalicylic acid and 200 mg of ascorbic acid.
Excipients: anhydrous citric acid, sodium bicarbonate.
Dosage
Always use this medicine exactly as described in the package leaflet or as your doctor or pharmacist has told you.
- The drug for oral use in the form of a solution.
- The drug should be taken with a meal.
- Treatment without consulting a doctor should not last longer than 3 days.
Adults: 1-2 tablets once. The dose can be repeated 2-3 times a day. Do not take more than 6 tablets a day.
Adolescents over 12 years of age: 1-2 tablets a day.
Method of preparation: 1 tablet should be dissolved in 3/4 cup of water.
Action
Polopiryna C has antipyretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. It also contains vitamin C, which is required in the period of illness and recovery.
Indications
mild or moderate pain (e.g. headache, muscle and joint pain, other pains),
fever (colds, viral infections, other diseases).
Contraindications
When not to use Polopiryna C:
- if you are allergic to acetylsalicylic acid or any of the other ingredients of this medicine,
- if you are allergic (hypersensitive) to other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with symptoms such as bronchospasm, hay fever, shock;
- if you suffer from bronchial asthma, chronic respiratory diseases, hay fever or swelling of the nasal mucosa, as patients with these conditions may react to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with asthma attacks, limited swelling of the skin and mucosa (angioedema) or hives more often than other patients ;
- if you have active gastric and/or duodenal ulcers and inflammation or bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract (gastrointestinal bleeding or ulcer reactivation may occur);
- if you suffer from severe liver, kidney or heart failure;
- if you suffer from blood clotting disorders (e.g. haemophilia, thrombocytopenia) and if you are treated with anticoagulants (e.g. coumarin derivatives, heparin) at the same time;
- if you suffer from glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (a rare hereditary disease);
- if you are concomitantly receiving methotrexate in doses of 15 mg or more per week due to the damaging effect on the bone marrow;
- in children under 12 years of age, especially in the course of viral infections (chicken pox, flu), due to the risk of Reye's syndrome, a rare but serious disease that causes damage to the liver and brain;
- in the last trimester of pregnancy and during breastfeeding.
- in the case of damage to the immediate packaging, as a result of external factors (air access and moisture), the vitamin C contained in the tablet is gradually oxidized, which leads to a change in the color of the tablet from white to brown. The color changed tablet cannot be used.