Kemopride 10mg Tablets

• If you are allergic to cisapride or any of the ingredients of Kemopride Tablet.
• If you have bleeding or an obstruction in your stomach.
• If you have any heart disease such as congestive heart failure, slow heart rate, heart rhythm disorder, a structural heart defect, heart block or other conduction disorders.
• If you have a personal or family history of long QT syndrome.
• If you have hardening of the arteries.
• If you have severe dehydration, malnutrition or an eating disorder.
• If you have kidney failure, severe lung problems or advanced cancer.

• Diarrhoea
• Stomach pain
• Headache
• Nausea
• Stuffy nose

Other General Warnings

• You have or had intestinal disorders or bleeding ulcers.
• You are pregnant, plan to become pregnant or are breastfeeding. If you become pregnant while taking cisapride, talk to your doctor.
• You have liver or heart problems.
• You are taking medicines that can reduce the potassium levels in your body.

• Take Kemopride Tablet as a whole with sufficient water.
• Always take this medicine exactly as prescribed by your doctor.
• Do not cut, break or chew the medicine.
• Do not consume more than the prescribed dose.
• Do not discontinue the medicine on your own without consulting your doctor.

• Store Kemopride Tablet in a cool and dry place away from direct sunlight.
• Keep out of reach of children and pets.

Overdose

Missed a Dose

How Does It Work?

• Kemopride Tablet increases the movement of your esophagus, stomach and intestines during digestion.
• It also increases the rate at which your stomach empties into your intestines and increases the lower esophageal sphincter tone.

Interactions with other medicines

• Some medicines can affect the way Kemopride Tablet works or this medicine itself can reduce the effectiveness of other medicines taken at the same time.
• Inform your doctor about all the medicines, supplements or herbals you are currently taking or might take to avoid any possible interaction.
• Kemopride Tablet should not be taken along with medicines like bepridil (used to treat high blood pressure and heart-related chest pain); medicines used to treat mental disorders like chlorpromazine, fluphenazine, mesoridazine, perphenazine, sertindole, thioridazine, thiothixene, trifluoperazine; clarithromycin, erythromycin, troleandomycin (used to treat bacterial infections); fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole (used to treat fungal infections); medications for the treatment of depression such as amitriptyline, amoxapine, clomipramine, desipramine, doxepin, imipramine, maprotiline, nefazodone, nortriptyline, protriptyline and trimipramine; medications for the treatment of irregular heart beats such as amiodarone, disopyramide, quinidine, procainamide and sotalol; prochlorperazine (used to treat nausea/vomiting); promethazine (used for treating allergic symptoms); protease inhibitors such as indinavir and ritonavir used to treat HIV/AIDS and sparfloxacin (used to treat bacterial respiratory infections and sinusitis).
• Particular care should be taken if you are taking anti-anxiety medications, anticholinergics (atropine, belladonna, benztropine, dicyclomine, diphenhydramine, isopropamide, procyclidine and scopolamine), anticoagulants/blood thinners such as warfarin, anti-bacterial like azithromycin, anti-ulcer medications like cimetidine, anti-infectives like dirithromycin, fluid accumulation/swelling reducing medicines like diuretics, antifungals like miconazole, tranquillizers and vitamins.

Interactions with food items