Udca 300mg Tablet

• Udca 300 mg tablet is used to dissolve gallbladder stones that are made of cholesterol in various liver-related disorders such as cirrhosis and sclerosing cholangitis.
• It is used to treat liver dysfunction associated with cystic fibrosis (a hereditary disease affecting the lungs and digestive system).

• If you are allergic to ursodeoxycholic acid or any ingredients of Udca 300 mg tablet.
• If you have a stomach or intestinal ulcer or bleeding.
• If you have a liver-related disorder and non-functional gall bladder.
• If you have recently had surgery involving any part of your intestine.
• If you are suffering from inflammation/blockage of the gall bladder or biliary tract.
• If you are suffering from a liver or intestinal condition which affects the circulation of bile substances like blockage of the bile duct.

• Diarrhoea
• Sticky stool

Other General Warnings

• You experience persistent diarrhoea, the doctor should discontinue the therapy immediately.
• You have a history of liver disease or obstruction in bile passage, your doctor may ask you to do liver function tests regularly.
• Your doctor may ask you for an ultrasound after six months of the treatment to check the therapeutic improvement.

• Udca 300 mg tablet should be taken as directed by your doctor.
• Swallow it whole with a glass of water after meals.
• Do not cut, break or chew the medicine.
• For optimal results, it would be best to take it at a fixed time and not consume it more than that prescribed by your doctor.

• Women of childbearing age should use non-hormonal contraceptive measures (physical barrier) or low-oestrogen oral contraceptive pills. Combination oral contraceptive pills should not be taken with UDCA 300 mg tablet.
• It would be best to avoid a high-cholesterol diet during treatment, as it may affect the activity of this medicine.

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Interactions with other medicines

• Some medicines can affect the way UDCA 300 mg tablet works or this medicine itself can reduce the effectiveness of other medicines taken at the same time.
• Tell your doctor about all the medicines, supplements or herbals you are currently taking or might take to avoid any possible interaction.
• Concomitant use of cholesterol-lowering medicines such as cholestyramine or colestipol and some antacids may reduce this medicine's efficacy. So, it should be taken with a gap of 2 hours at least.
• Contraceptive pills should not be used if you are being prescribed with UDCA 300 mg tablet.
• Other medicines that may affect this medicine's absorption are charcoal and antibiotics like Ciprofloxacin, immunosuppressants like Ciclosporin, cholesterol-lowering medicines like Atorvastatin and Dapsone used as an anti-infective. Hence, it should not be used concomitantly.