Package Leaflet: Information for the user
Dolostop 1 g oral solution
Paracetamol
Read this leaflet carefully before you start taking this medicine because it contains important information for you.
Follow exactly the administration instructions for the medicine contained in this leaflet or those indicated by your doctor, pharmacist, or nurse.
1. What is Dolostop and what it is used for
2. What you need to know before starting to take Dolostop
3. How to take Dolostop
4. Possible side effects
5. Storage of Dolostop
6. Contents of the pack and additional information
Dolostop contains paracetamol. Paracetamol is effective in reducing pain and fever.
It is used for the relief of occasional mild or moderate pain, such as headache, toothache, muscle pain (muscle cramps) or back pain (lumbago) and in febrile states, inadults and adolescents over 15 years old and weighing more than 50 kg.
Do not take Dolostop
-If you are allergic to paracetamol or any of the other components of this medication (listed in section 6).
Warnings and precautions
Consult your doctor, pharmacist, or nurse before starting to take the medication.
Inform your doctor immediately if you experience:
Severe diseases, such as severe kidney failure or sepsis (when bacteria and their toxins circulate in the blood, causing damage to organs), or if you suffer from malnutrition, chronic alcoholism, or if you are also taking flucloxacillin (an antibiotic). A severe disease called metabolic acidosis (a blood and fluid anomaly) has been reported in patients in these situations when using paracetamol at regular doses for a prolonged period or when taking paracetamol with flucloxacillin. Symptoms of metabolic acidosis may include: severe respiratory distress with deep and rapid breathing, drowsiness, feeling unwell (nausea), and vomiting.
Children and adolescents
In children and adolescents under 10-12 years, consult your doctor or pharmacist as there may be other presentations available with doses adapted to these patients.
Other medications and Dolostop
Inform your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have taken recently, or may need to take any other medication.
Particularly, if you are using any of the following medications, as it may be necessary to modify the dose of some of them or discontinue treatment:
-Medications to prevent blood clots: Oral anticoagulants (acenocoumarol, warfarin).
-Medications to treat epilepsy: Antiepileptics (lamotrigine, phenytoin, or other hydantoins, phenobarbital, methylphenobarbital, primidone, carbamazepine).
-Medications to treat tuberculosis (isoniazid, rifampicin).
-Medications to treat depression and seizures: Barbiturates (used as hypnotics, sedatives, and anticonvulsants).
-Medications to lower cholesterol levels in the blood (colestiramine).
-Medications used to increase urine elimination (diuretics such as furosemide).
-Medications used to treat gout (probencid and sulfinpyrazone).
-Medications used to prevent nausea and vomiting: Metoclopramide and domperidone.
-Medications used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias): Propranolol.
Do not use with other analgesics (pain medications) without consulting your doctor.
As a general rule for any medication, it is recommended to inform your doctor or pharmacist systematically if you are taking another medication. In the case of oral anticoagulants, it may be administered occasionally as the preferred analgesic.
Interference with analytical tests
If you are to undergo any analytical test (including blood, urine, etc…), inform your doctor that you are taking this medication, as it may alter the results.
Paracetamol may alter the values of uric acid and glucose determinations.
Use of Dolostop with food, drinks, and alcohol
The use of paracetamol in patients who habitually consume alcohol (three or more alcoholic beverages per day – beer, wine, liquor… per day) may cause liver damage.
The taking of this medication with food does not affect its efficacy.
Pregnancy, lactation, and fertility
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, consult your doctor or pharmacist before using this medication.
The consumption of medications during pregnancy may be hazardous to the embryo or fetus, and should be monitored by your doctor.
Paracetamol passes into breast milk, so women in the lactation period should consult their doctor or pharmacist before taking this medication.
Driving and operating machinery
The influence of paracetamol on the ability to drive and operate machinery is negligible or insignificant.
Dolostop contains sorbitol (E-420), propylene glycol (E-1520), sulfites, glucose, and ethanol
This medication contains 2,000 mg of sorbitol in each sachet. If your doctor has indicated that you (or your child) suffer from intolerance to certain sugars, or if you have been diagnosed with hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI), a rare genetic disorder in which the patient cannot break down fructose, consult your doctor before taking this medication. Sorbitol may cause gastrointestinal discomfort and a mild laxative effect.
This medication contains 2,500 mg of propylene glycol in each sachet.
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, do not take this medication unless recommended by your doctor. Your doctor may perform additional checks while you are taking this medication.
If you have liver or kidney failure, do not take this medication unless recommended by your doctor. Your doctor may perform additional checks while you are taking this medication.
This medication may cause severe allergic reactions and bronchospasm (sudden feeling of choking) due to the presence of ammonium sulfite caramel.
This medication contains glucose (in maltodextrin from potato). If your doctor has indicated that you suffer from intolerance to certain sugars, consult with them before taking this medication.
This medication contains 0.2% ethanol (alcohol), which corresponds to 18.2 mg per sachet.
Follow exactly the medication administration instructions contained in this leaflet or those indicated by your doctor.In case of doubt, ask your doctor, pharmacist or nurse..
The recommended dose is:
Adults and adolescents over 15 years and weighing more than 50 kg:
Take 1 g of paracetamol (1 sachet) every 6-8 hours, 3 times a day.
Do not take more than 3 g of paracetamol (3 sachets) in 24 hours.
Always take the smallest effective dose.
The use of this medication is subject to the appearance of pain or fever. As these disappear, treatment should be discontinued.
It is recommended to avoid the use of high daily doses of paracetamol for prolonged periods of time, as this increases the risk of adverse effects such as liver damage.
If the pain persists for more than 5 days, the fever for more than 3 days, or if the pain or fever worsen or other symptoms appear, treatment should be interrupted and the doctor consulted.
For sore throat, the medication should not be taken for more than 2 consecutive days without consulting a doctor.
Patients with kidney disease:
This medication does not follow the recommended dosage for these patients.
Patients with liver disease:
Consult your doctor before starting to take this medication.
Take the amount of medication prescribed by your doctor with a minimum interval of 8 hours between each dose.
Do not take more than 2 g of paracetamol (2 sachets) in 24 hours, divided into several doses.
Administration form
This medication is taken orally.
The contents of the sachet can be taken diluted in a liquid, preferably water, or directly.
Once the sachet is opened, consume all its contents.
If you take moreDolostopthan you should
Consult your doctor or pharmacist immediately. Incase of overdose or accidental ingestion, go immediately to a medical center or call the Toxicological Information Service (phone 91 562 04 20), indicating the medication and the amount ingested.
The symptoms of overdose may be: dizziness, vomiting, loss of appetite, yellowish discoloration of the skin and eyes (jaundice) and abdominal pain.
If you have ingested an overdose, go immediately to a medical center even if you do not notice the symptoms, as they often do not appear until 3 days after ingestion of the overdose, even in cases of severe poisoning.
The treatment of overdose is more effective if it is initiated within 4 hours of medication ingestion.
Patients undergoing barbiturate treatment or chronic alcoholics may be more susceptible to the toxicity of a paracetamol overdose.
If you forgot to take Dolostop
Do not take a double dose to compensate for the missed doses.
Like all medications, this medication may produce adverse effects, although not all people will experience them.
Rare adverse effects that may affect up to 1 in 1,000 people are: discomfort, low blood pressure (hypotension), and increased levels of transaminases in the blood.
Very rare adverse effects that may affect up to 1 in 10,000 people are: kidney diseases, cloudy urine, allergic dermatitis (skin rash), jaundice (yellow discoloration of the skin), blood disorders (agranulocytosis, leucopenia, neutropenia, hemolytic anemia) and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and severe skin reactions.
Adverse effects of unknown frequency (cannot be estimated from available data): A serious disease that can make the blood more acidic (designated as metabolic acidosis) in patients with severe disease who use paracetamol (see section 2).
Paracetamol can damage the liver when taken in high doses or prolonged treatments.
Reporting Adverse Effects
If you experience any type of adverse effect, consult your doctor or pharmacist, even if it is an adverse effect that does not appear in this prospectus. You can also report them directly through the Spanish System for Pharmacovigilance of Medicinal Products for Human Use:www.notificaRAM.es. By reporting adverse effects, you can contribute to providing more information on the safety of this medication.
Keep this medication out of the sight and reach of children.
Store below 30°C.
Do not use this medication after the expiration date that appears on the packaging after “CAD”. The expiration date is the last day of the month indicated.
Do not dispose of medications through the drains or trash. Dispose of packaging and unused medications at the SIGRE collection point at the pharmacy.If in doubt, ask your pharmacist how to dispose of packaging and unused medications.By doing so, you will help protect the environment.
Composition of Dolostop
Appearance of Dolostopand contents of the packaging
Orange-colored oral solution, packaged in single-dose sachets.
Each package contains 10 sachets, packaged in thermosealed sachets made of a complex of aluminum (polyester/aluminum/polyethylene, polyester and polyethylene).
Marketing authorization holder and responsible manufacturer
Kern Pharma, S.L.
Venus, 72 - Pol. Ind.Colón II
08228 Terrassa - Barcelona
Spain
Last review date of this leaflet: February 2025
The detailed and updated information on this medicine is available on the website of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS)http://www.aemps.gob.es/.
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