Package leaflet: Information for the user Tranexamic acid Pfizer 100 mg/ml Solution for Injection

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Read all of this leaflet carefully before you are given this medicine because it contains important information for you.

-    Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.

-    If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or nurse.

-    If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. See section 4.

What is in this leaflet

1.    What Tranexamic acid Pfizer is and what it is used for

2.    What you need to know before you are given Tranexamic acid Pfizer

3.    How to take Tranexamic acid Pfizer

4.    Possible side effects

5.    How to store Tranexamic acid Pfizer

6.    Contents of the pack and other information

1.    What Tranexamic acid Pfizer is and what it is used for

Tranexamic acid Pfizer contains tranexamic acid which belongs to a group of medicines called antihaemorragics; antifibrinolitics, aminoacids.

Tranexamic acid Pfizer is used in adults and children above one year of age for the prevention and treatment of bleeding due to a process that inhibits blood clotting called fibrinolysis.

Specific indications include:

-    Heavy periods in women

-    Gastrointestinal bleeding

-    Haemorrhagic urinary disorders, further to prostate surgery or surgical procedures affecting the urinary tract

-    Ear, nose or throat surgery

•    heart, abdominal or gynaecological surgery

•    bleeding after you have been treated with another medicine to break down blood clots.

2.    What you need to know before you are given Tranexamic acid Pfizer Do not take Tranexamic acid Pfizer:

•    If you are allergic to tranexamic acid or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6)

•    If you have currently a disease leading to blood clots

•    If you have a condition called ‘consumption coagulopathy’ where blood in the whole body starts to clot

•    If you have kidney problems

•    If you have a history of convulsions

Due to the risk of cerebral oedema and convulsions, intrathecal and intraventricular injection and intracerebral application are not recommended.

If you think any of these apply to you, or if you are in any doubt at all, tell your doctor before taking Tranexamic acid Pfizer.

Warnings and precautions

Talk to your doctor or nurse if any of these apply to you to help him or her decide if Tranexamic acid Pfizer is suitable for you:

•    If you have had blood in your urine, it may lead to urinary tract obstruction.

•    If you have a risk of having blood clots.

•    If you have excessive clotting or bleeding throughout your body (disseminated intravascular coagulation), Tranexamic acid Pfizer may not be right for you, except if you have acute severe bleeding and blood tests have shown the process that inhibits blood clotting called fibrinolysis is activated.

•    If you have had convulsions, Tranexamic acid Pfizer should not be administered. Your doctor must use the minimal dose possible to avoid convulsions following treatment with Tranexamic acid Pfizer.

•    If you are on a long-term treatment with Tranexamic acid Pfizer Solution for Injection, attention should be paid to possible disturbances of colour vision and if necessary the treatment should be discontinued. With continuous longterm use of Tranexamic acid Pfizer, regular ophthalmologic examinations (eye examinations including visual acuity, colour vision, fundus, visual field etc.) are indicated. With pathological ophthalmic changes, particularly with diseases of the retina, your doctor must take a decision after consulting a specialist on the necessity for the long-term use of Tranexamic acid Pfizer in your case.

Other medicines and Tranexamic acid Pfizer

Tell your doctor, nurse or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines.

You should specifically tell them if you take:

•    other medicines that help blood to clot called antifibrinolytic medicines

•    medicines that prevent blood clotting, called thrombolytic medicines

•    oral contraceptives

Pregnancy,breast-feeding and fertility

If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine.

Tranexamic acid is excreted in human milk. Therefore, the use of Tranexamic acid Pfizer during breast-feeding is not recommended.

Driving and using machines

No studies have been performed on the ability to drive and use machines.

3. How to use Tranexamic acid Pfizer

Tranexamic acid Pfizer solution for injection will be given to you by slow injection into a vein.

Your doctor will decide the correct dose for you and how long you should take it.

Use in children

If Tranexamic acid Pfizer solution for injection is given to a child from one year, the dose will be based on the child’s weight.

Your doctor will decide the correct dose for the child and how long he/she should take it.

Use in elderly

No reduction in dosage is necessary unless there is evidence of renal failure.

Use in patients with kidney problem

If you have a kidney problem, your dose of tranexamic acid will be reduced according to a test performed on your blood (serum creatinine level).

Use in patients with hepatic impairment

No reduction in dosage is necessary.

Method of administration

Tranexamic acid Pfizer should only be administered slowly into a vein.

Tranexamic acid Pfizer must not be injected into a muscle.

If you are given more Tranexamic acid Pfizer than the recommended dose

If you are given more Tranexamic acid Pfizer than the recommended dose you may experience a transitory blood pressure lowering. Talk to a doctor or pharmacist immediately.

4. Possible side effects

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

Side effects reported with Tranexamic acid Pfizer are:

The following side effects have been observed with Tranexamic acid Pfizer

Common: may affect up to 1 in 10 people

•    effects on the stomach and intestines: nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea

Uncommon: may affect up to1 in 100 people

•    effects on the skin problems: rash

Not known: frequency cannot be estimated from the available data

•    malaise with hypotension (low blood pressure), especially if the injection is given too quickly

•    blood clots

•    effects on the nervous system: convulsions

•    effects on the eyes: vision disturbances including impaired colour vision

•    effects on the immune system: allergic reactions

Reporting of suspected adverse reactions

Reporting suspected adverse reactions after authorisation of the medicinal product is important. It allows continued monitoring of the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product. Healthcare professionals are asked to report any suspected adverse reactions via the Yellow Card Scheme website: www.mhra.gov.uk/yenowcard.

5.    How to store Tranexamic acid Pfizer

Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children.

Do not use this medicine after the expiry date which is stated on the carton and ampoule label after EXP. The expiry date refers to the last day of that month.

Do not freeze.

Do not throw away any medicines via wastewater or household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to throw away medicines you no longer use. These measures will help protect the environment.

6.    Contents of the pack and other information

What Tranexamic acid Pfizer contains

The active substance is tranexamic acid.

Each 5 ml of the solution contains 500 mg of tranexamic acid.

The other ingredient is water for injections.

What Tranexamic acid Pfizer looks like and contents of the pack

Tranexamic acid Pfizer is a solution for injection in glass ampoules containing 500 mg in 5 ml solution.

Packs with 5, 6 or 10 Type I glass 5 mL ampoules in an outer carton, each ampoule containing 500 mg tranexamic acid.

Packs with 10 x 1 Type I glass 5 mL ampoules in an outer carton, each ampoule containing 500 mg tranexamic acid.

Not all pack sizes may be marketed.

Marketing Authorisation Holder and Manufacturer Marketing Authorisation Holder:

Pfizer Limited Ramsgate Road Sandwich, Kent CT13 9NJ UK

Manufacturer:

Pfizer Manufacturing Belgium NV Rijksweg 12 B-2870 PUURS BELGIUM

Company contact address:

For further information on your medicine contact Medical Information at the following address:

Pfizer Limited, Walton Oaks, Dorking Road, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 7NS

Telephone 01304 616161

This leaflet was last revised in: 12/2015

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