Apitone Plus Oral Drops
Give Apitone Plus Oral Drops to your child by mouth before food in the dose, time, and way prescribed by your child’s doctor. Give this medicine at a fixed time so that it gradually becomes a part of your child’s daily routine. If your child vomits within 30 minutes of taking this medicine, help the child calm down and repeat the dose.
Apitone Plus Oral Drops
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About This Medicine
General information about this product
Apitone Plus Oral Drops is a combination of two active medicines cyproheptadine and tricholine citrate. Together these medicines help stimulate appetite (hunger) in children. Also, it is given to treat allergic conditions in children.
Give Apitone Plus Oral Drops to your child by mouth before food in the dose, time, and way prescribed by your child’s doctor. Give this medicine at a fixed time so that it gradually becomes a part of your child’s daily routine. If your child vomits within 30 minutes of taking this medicine, help the child calm down and repeat the dose.
To experience significant hunger stimulation and weight gain, you may require to continue giving this medicine to your child for a few days a month. Therefore, for maximum benefit, it is advised to continue the treatment for the prescribed duration.
The intake of Apitone Plus Oral Drops may cause minor and temporary side effects in your child such as increased heartbeat, dizziness, confusion, headache, constipation, dry mouth, and blurred vision. These symptoms will resolve once your child’s body adapts to the medicine. However, in case of prolonged or bothersome events, it would be best to consult your child’s doctor without any delay.
Inform your child’s doctor if your child is on any medical regime or is allergic to any medicine, product, or food. The doctor must also be aware if your child has or had bowel obstruction, malnutrition, weight-related issues, thyroid problems, or any heart, liver, or kidney problems. All this information will help avoid any complications in the treatment and will help your child’s doctor plan your child’s overall treatment better.
03Uses
Appetite stimulant
Treatment of Allergic skin conditions
04How It Works
Apitone Plus Oral Drops contains two medicines cyproheptadine and tricholine citrate. Together they stimulate the urge to eat (appetite). Cyproheptadine acts by reducing the effect of serotonin (a chemical messenger) in the hypothalamus, a part of the brain which regulates appetite. Tricholine citrate also helps in increasing appetite and spares amino acids for muscle enhancement.
05What If You Miss A Dose?
Do not panic. Unless your child’s doctor has advised a specific regime for your child, administer the missed dose as soon as you remember. Skip the missed dose if it is almost time for the next dose. Do not give a double dose to catch up on any missed dose, follow the prescribed dosing schedule strictly.
06Benefits
In Appetite stimulant
Apitone Plus Oral Drops stimulates hunger in children suffering from long-term illness and enhances the availability of proteins for muscle mass building. It increases hunger by constantly increasing the energy requirements of your child. It promotes the desire to eat, and therefore, it is a safe and effective way of managing undernutrition or malnutrition. It helps to treat loss of appetite and improves nutritional status.
In Treatment of Allergic skin conditions
Apitone Plus Oral Drops is effective in treating allergic skin conditions with inflammation and itching such as severe itching in dengue fever in children. It works by reducing the actions of chemicals in the body that cause inflammation of the skin. It reduces the redness, rash pain, or itchiness caused by the skin’s reaction to an irritantshow moreshow less
07Side Effects
Apitone Plus Oral Drops does not pose serious side effects and is well-tolerated by children. In case the side effects do occur, they’re likely to subside once the body adapts to the medicine. Consult your child’s doctor if these side effects persist or bother your child. The most common side effects include-
Constipation
Blurred vision
Dryness in mouth
Headache
Confusion
Increased heart rate
Dizziness
08Safety Information
Kidney:CAUTION
Apitone Plus Oral Drops should be used with caution in patients with kidney disease. Dose adjustment of Apitone Plus Oral Drops may be needed. Please consult your doctor.
Liver:SAFE IF PRESCRIBED
Apitone Plus Oral Drops is safe to use in patients with liver disease. No dose adjustment of Apitone Plus Oral Drops is recommended.
09Drug Tips
Dry mouth may occur as a side effect. Frequent mouth rinses, good oral hygiene, increased water intake, and chewing on sugarless candy may help.
Apitone Plus Oral Drops can cause a bitter taste in your child’s mouth. Eating a piece of citrus fruit or sugarless candy may help.
Never increase or decrease the dose by yourself as the dose is prescribed based on your child’s condition, body weight, and age.
Do not give Apitone Plus Oral Drops to increase your child’s body weight under normal conditions. It is prescribed to treat malnutrition due to chronic illness.
Call your child’s doctor right away if your child exhibits allergic rash, facial swelling, or breathing difficulty soon after the intake of Apitone Plus Oral Drops.
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