Ebixa 10 mg 28 tablets:
- Memantine is used to treat the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (Alzheimer's disease, a brain disease that slowly destroys memory and the ability to think, learn, communicate, and handle daily activities). Memantine belongs to a class of medications called receptor antagonists
- It works by reducing abnormal activity in the brain.
- Memantine may improve the ability to think and remember or may slow the loss of these abilities in people with Alzheimer's disease.
- However, memantine will not cure Alzheimer's disease or prevent the loss of these abilities at some point in the future.
Instructions for use:
Starting dose:
Target dose:
Calibration dose:
- The dose was increased by 5 mg daily at weekly intervals as tolerated.
Titration table:
- First week: 5 mg daily.
- Second week: 10 mg daily (5 mg twice daily).
- Week 3: 15 mg daily (5 mg once daily and 10 mg once daily).
- Fourth week: 20 mg daily (10 mg twice daily).
Warnings and precautions:
- Tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to memantine, any other medications, or any of the ingredients in memantine tablets, capsules, and oral solution.
- Ask your pharmacist or check the manufacturer's patient information for a list of ingredients.
- Tell your doctor and pharmacist what prescription and nonprescription medications, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbal products you are taking.
Be sure to mention any of the following:
- acetazolamide (Diamox); Amantadine. dextromethorphan (Robitussin, others); methazolamide (Nepatazane); Potassium citrate and citric acid (Cytra-K, Polycitra-K); sodium bicarbonate (soda mint, baking soda); Sodium citrate and citric acid (Bistra, Oracet).
- Your doctor may need to change the doses of your medications or monitor you carefully for side effects.
- Tell your doctor if you have or have had a urinary tract infection now or if you develop one during your treatment with memantine and if you have or have ever had seizures, difficulty urinating, or kidney or liver disease.
- Tell your doctor if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or breastfeeding. If you become pregnant while taking memantine, call your doctor.
- If you are having surgery, including dental surgery, tell the doctor or dentist that you are taking memantine.
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