Phenobarbital

فنوباربیتال

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🧠 Nervous SystemBarbiturate anticonvulsant

Market / country: 🇬🇧 UK

Phenobarbital elixir (GB)

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Epilepsy (complex partial / absence seizures) · Regimen source: UK SmPC Phenobarb elixir · 4.2

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🛡️ Safety & information

Contraindications

  • ⛔ Barbiturate hypersensitivity; severe respiratory depression; severe hepatic or renal impairment; acute intermittent porphyria; hyperkinetic children. UK SmPC Phenobarb elixir · 4.3

Warnings

Formulations

👥 Special populations

  • 🤰 PregnancyDangerous / avoid

    Darooyab: category D — evidence of fetal risk; only when essential. Darooyab · G-677/Phenobarbital — مصرف در بارداری

    “مصرف در بارداری فنوباربیتال گروه D استفاده نشود:”
  • 🤱 BreastfeedingUse with caution

    Label: use with caution while breastfeeding; see the label text. UK SmPC Phenobarb elixir · 4.6

    “is therefore not advisable.”
  • 👶 ChildrenUse with caution

    The label has conditions, age limits or notes for children; the label sentence is quoted below. UK SmPC Phenobarb elixir · 4.2

    “Children: initially 3-6mg per kg body weight per day taken in 2 or 3 divided portions.”
  • 👴 Older adultsNo data

    The source for this drug has no section for this group.

  • ⚥ Females & males of reproductive potentialNo data

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