Glucose 20% B.Braun solution for injection, 20x100 ml

Instructions for use for Glucose 20% B.Braun solution for injection, 20x100 ml

Important notes (compulsory information):

Glucose 20% B. brown, injection solution. Applications: Will be used if you need glucose to increase a low blood sugar level.

For risks and side effects, read the package leaflet and ask your doctor or pharmacist.


LEAFLET: INFORMATION FOR THE USER

Glucose 20% B. brown, injection solution
Active substance: Glucose monohydrate

Read the entire leaflet carefully before starting using this medicine, because it contains important information.

• Lift the package leaflet. You might want to read it again.
• If you have further questions, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
• This medicine has been prescribed for you personally. Do not pass it on to others. It may harm other people, even if they have the same complaints as they are.
• If you notice side effects, contact your doctor or pharmacist. This also applies to side effects that are not indicated in this leaflet. See section 4.

What is in this leaflet

1. What is Glucose 20% B. Brown and what is it used for?
2. What should you pay attention to 20% B. brown before using glucose?
3. How is Glucose 20% B. to apply brown?
4. WHAT SIDE EFFECTS ARE POSSIBLE?
5. How is Glucose 20% B. Be Brown?
6. Content of the pack and further information

1. What is glucose 20% B. brown and what is it used for?

Glucose 20% B. Braun is a solution of glucose (grape sugar) For energy supply, administered after dilution as infusion, i. Over a thin hose in a vein (intravenous). Glucose 20% B. Braun is used when you need glucose to raise a too low blood sugar level.

2. What should you pay attention to 20% B. brown before using glucose?

Glucose 20% B. brown must not be used:

• if you have too high blood sugar levels,
• if you have too low blood potassium value,
• If your blood is over-acidified.

Warnings and Precautions:
Please talk to your doctor or pharmacist before you glucose Apply 20% B. Braun. Take special care with the application of this medicine if the concentration of salts and other substances in the blood is increased. While they receive this solution, their blood electrolyte values - especially potassium - are measured and their fluid balance and their acid base status are determined at regular intervals. While obtaining this solution, their blood sugar value is determined as often as required, according to their metabolic rate and the supplied glucose amount.

Children:
Glucose 20% B. Braun must be applied to children with special care. For newborns, especially in early born with little birth weight, an increased risk of developing too high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia). Thus, possible unwanted long-term seizure can be avoided herein is necessary by tight monitoring, sufficient blood sugar control during treatment with a glucose-containing solution.

Application of glucose 20% B. brown together with other medicines:
Inform your doctor or pharmacist if you take / use other medicines, recently taken / applied / applied or intend to take / use other medicines. So far, however, no interactions with other medicines are known.

Pregnancy and breast feeding period:
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you suspect to be pregnant, or intend to become pregnant, ask your doctor for advice before applying this medicine. So far, there are only limited experiences with the applicablefrom glucose solutions in pregnant women and breastfeeding women. Your doctor will decide with care whether you should receive this solution or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Your blood sugar level and your electrolyte and fluid balance are carefully monitored during infusion. These values should be within normal areas.

Driving and ability to operate machines:
Glucose 20% B. Braun has no influence on the ability to drive and the ability to operate machines.

3. What is Glucose 20% B. to apply brown?

Always use this medicine exactly after consultation with your doctor. Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.

Dosage:
Your doctor will determine your dose based on your blood sugar level.

Type of application:
Glucose 20% B. Braun is supplied as a slow injection. Glucose 20% B. brown can also be used as infusion, i. Be fed via a thin hose into a vein (intravenously) after the solution of an infusion solution was added.

If you have used a larger amount of glucose 20% B. brown than you should:
An overdose can lead to excessive blood sugar levels, increasing the electrolyte concentration in the blood and to fluid loss. In this case, the supply is slowed down or, if necessary, interrupted, and your doctor will decide on further treatment measures, e.g. insulin.

If you have further questions about the application of this medicine, contact your doctor or pharmacist.

4. Which side effects are possible?

Like all medicines, this medicine can also have side effects, but they do not have to occur each other.

The frequency information on side effects is based on the following categories:
Very often:	more than 1 treated from 10
Frequently:	1 to 10 treated from 100
Occasionally:	1 to 10 treated from 1 000
Rarely:	1 to 10 treated from 10 000
Very rare:	less than 1 treated from 10 000
Not known:	Frequency on the basis of the available data does not estimate.

Metabolic and nutritional disorders:
Not known: Increase in electrolyte concentration in the blood (Faults of the electrolyte household) and fluid loss (Dehydration).

General diseases and complaints at the administration site:
Not known: local pain or reaction (redness or swelling at the puncture site), irritation or inflammation of the vein in which the infusion is administered (phlebitis). Blood clinry at the puncture site (thrombophlebitis), Exit from solution into the tissue surrounding the vein (paravasat education).

Message of side effects:
If you notice side effects, contact your doctor or pharmacist. This also applies to side effects that are not indicated in this leaflet. You can also disclose side effects directly through the Federal Institute for Medicines and Medical Devices. Pharmacovigilance Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger Allee 3 D-53175 Bonn Website: http://www.bfarm.de. By reporting side effects, you can help to provide more information about the security of this medicine.

5. What is Glucose to keep 20% B. brown?

Keep this medicine inaccessible to children. They may be this medicine after the on the label and the outer carton " Until "stated expiration date no longer use. The expiry date refers to the last day of the specified month.

Storage conditions:
This medicinal product does not require special storage conditions.

Note on durability after breaking or preparation:
Microbiological reasons should mixes with additives or other injection or infusionsolungs are used immediately. If it is not used immediately, retention times and conditions are the responsibility of the user. Normally, mixtures should not be stored for more than 24 hours at 2 ° C - 8 ° C, if they were not produced under controlled conditions and ensuring germ-free.

You may not use this medicine if you notice the following:
Discoloration or turbidity of the solution, visible particles in the solution, damage to the container or at the closure.

6. Content of the pack and further information

What Glucose 20% B. brown contains:
The active ingredient is: glucose monohydrate. 100 ml of the solution included 22.0 g of glucose monohydrate (corresponding to 20.0 g of anhydrous glucose). The other ingredient is: water for injection purposes.

How to glucose 20% B. brown looks and contents of the pack:
Glucose 20% B. Braun is a concentrate for producing an infusion solution, a clear, colorless or slightly yellowish aqueous solution.

Glucose 20% B. Braun is supplied in:

• Glass vials to 50 or 100 ml. Pack sizes: 20 x 50 ml, 20 x 100 ml.
• Polyethylenampules to 10 ml. Pack sizes: 20 x 10 ml.

Pharmaceutical entrepreneur and manufacturer:
B. Braun Melsungen AG
Carl-Braun-Straße 1
34212 mels

Postal address:
34209 melsungen
Tel.: 05661 / 71-0
Fax: 05661 / 71-4567

This leaflet was last revised in June 2014.

Source: Information of the leaflet
Status: 07/2016