Voltaren Pain gel forte 23.2mg / g, 50 g

Instructions for use for Voltaren Pain gel forte 23.2mg / g, 50 g

Important notes (compulsory information):

Voltaren Pain gel Forte 23.2mg / g gel. Applications: Painbilling and anti-inflammatory medicine (Non-terrestrial anti-phlogistikum / analgesic). For the local, symptomatic treatment of pain in acute bruises, crush or sprains due to a blunt trauma, z. B. Sports and accident injuries. For young people over 14 years, the medicinal product is intended for short-term treatment.

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

Product features:

Package Leaflet: Information for the user

Voltaren Pain gel forte 23.2 mg / g gel
For adults and adolescents from 14 years
Active substance: Diclofenac, diethylamine salt

Read the entire leaflet carefully before starting using this medicine, because it contains important information. Always use this medicine as described in this leaflet or exactly as your doctor's or pharmacist instructions.

• Lift the package leaflet. You might want to read it again.
• Ask your pharmacist if you need more information or advice.
• If you notice side effects, contact your doctor or pharmacist. This also applies to side effects that are not indicated in this leaflet.
• If you do not feel better or even worse after 3 - 5 days, contact your doctor.

This leaflet contains:
1. What is Voltaren Pain gel forte and what is it used for?
2. What should you prior to use Voltaren Pain gel forte note?
3. What is Voltaren Pain gel forte to apply?
4. Which side effects are possible?
5. How is Voltaren Keepen a pain gel forte?
6. Content of the pack and further information.

1. What is Voltaren pain gel forte and what is it applied for?
Painbilling and anti-inflammatory medicine (Non-terrestrial anti-phlogistikum / analgesic). Application for young people over 14 years and adults
For the local, symptomatic treatment of pain in acute bruises, crush or sprains due to a blunt trauma, z. B. sports and accident injuries.
For young people over 14 years, the medicinal product is intended for short-term treatment.

2. What should you pay attention to the application of Voltaren Pain Gel forte?
Voltaren Pain gel forte must not be used

• if it is hypersensitive (allergic) against the active substance Diclofenac, one of the other ingredients listed under "6. Content of the package and other information" or against other medicines for the treatment of pain, fever or inflammation, such as ibuprofen or acetylsalicylic acid (an active ingredient, others to suppress the blood clotting is used). Symptoms of an allergic reaction to these medicines may include: whistling breath or shortness of breath (Asthma); Skin rashes with bubble formation and hives; Swelling of face or tongue, compressing ongoing nose.
• in patients with hypersensitivity to propylene glycol, 2-propanol and / or the eucalyptus-containing perfume;
• open injuries, inflammation or skin infections, as well as eczema or mucous membranes;
• in the last pregnancy average;
• for children and adolescents under 14 years.

Use Voltaren Pain gel does not arrange when one of the aforementioned points is true. Warnings and Precautions Please talk to your doctor or pharmacist before you Voltaren Apply pain gel forte. Voltaren Pain gel forte may only be applied to intact, non-ill or injured skin.
You can use a bandage, but will be used by the application of an occlusive bandage (tightly final association discounted. Before creating a bandage should Voltaren Pain gel forte drap on the skin for a few minutes.
Particular caution in the application is required in acute states associated with strong redness, swelling, or overheating joints, with ongoing joint complaints or for violent back pain radiation and / or with neurological failure phenomena (eg numbness feeling, tingling ) are connected, a doctor should be visited.
In complaints that have not improved or worsen after 3 - 5 days, a doctor should be visited.

If you have asthma, hay fever or nasal mucosal thresholds (so-called nasal polyps) or chronic bronchi (obstructive) respiratory diseases, chronic airway infections (especially coupled with hay fever-like phenomena) or hypersensitivity to other pain and rheumatics of all kinds suffer from the use of Voltaren Pain gel forte through asthma attacks (so-called. AnalgeTika Intolerance / AnalgeTika asthma), local skin or mucous membrane threshold (so-called Quincke edema) or urticaria rather endangered than other patients. In this case Voltaren Pain gel forte only under certain precautions (Emergency readiness) and direct medical control are used. The same applies to patients who also react against other substances (allergic), such as. B. with skin reactions, itching or nettle fever.
Should be done during treatment Voltaren Pain gel forte a rash occurs, break off the treatment.
Care should be taken to ensure that children with their hands do not get into contact with rubbed skin. Application of Voltaren Pain gel forte together with other medicines
Please inform your doctor or pharmacist if you take / use other medicines or recently taken / applied, even if it is non-prescription medicines.
For intended, external application of Voltaren Pain gel forte have not yet become aware of any interactions.

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 or pharmacist for advice before applying this medicine.

pregnancy
In the first and second pregnancy athlete should Voltaren Pain gel forte only after consultation with the doctor are applied.
In the last pregnancy average you can Voltaren Pain gel forte do not apply because an increased risk of complications for mother and child is not excluded.

Lactation
Diclofenac goes into the breast milk in small quantities. Voltaren Pain gel forte should be used during lactation only after consultation with the doctor. In this case, the medicine should not be applied to large other skin areas in the chest area or over a longer period of time.
Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking / application of all medicines. Driving and ability to use machines
There are no special precautions required. Important information about specific ingredients of Voltaren Pain gel forte
Voltaren Pain gel Forte contains propylene glycol and butylhydroxytoluene. Propylene glycol can cause skin irritation. Butylhydroxytoluene can locally limited skin irritation (e.g. Contact dermatitis), irritation of the eyes and the mucous membranes.

3. How is Voltaren Pain Gel Forte to apply?
Always use this medicine as described in this leaflet or exactly after the arrangement made with your doctor or pharmacist. Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.
Unless otherwise prescribed by the doctor, Voltaren Pain Gel Forte 2 times a day (preferably in the morning and evening) to apply.

Age	Single dose	Total daily dose
Teenagers from 14 Years and adults	Depending on the size of the painful spot to be treated - a cherry to walnut sized amount, corresponding to 1 - 4 g gel (23.2-92.8 Mg Diclofenac, diethylamine salt)	8 g gel (corresponding to 185.6 mg diclofenac, diethylamine salt)

type of application
Voltaren Pain gel Forte on the affected body region thin and rub easily. It should not be rubbed with pressure. Then the hands should be washed, except these would be the one to be treated
Job.
Before creating a bandage should Voltaren Pain gel forte drap on the skin for a few minutes.

Duration of the application
As a rule, depending on the symptoms, an application time is sufficient for more than 1 - 3 weeks. There are no investigations for an additional treatment period.
In complaints that have not improved or worsen after 3 - 5 days, a doctor should be visited.
Please talk to your doctor or pharmacist if you have the impression that the effect of Voltaren Pain gel forte is too strong or too weak.

Elderly
No special dose adjustment is required. However, older people should pay particular attention to the application on side effects and, if necessary, consult with their doctor or pharmacist.

Restricted kidney or liver function
No dose reduction is required.

Application in children and adolescents (under 14 years)
There are no sufficient data on the effectiveness and compatibility in children and adolescents under 14 years ago (See section 2).
Young people (from 14 years)
For young people at the age of 14 and older, the patient / parents are advised to visit a doctor if the medicine is needed for more than 7 days for pain treatment or the symptoms worsen.

If you have a larger quantity Voltaren Pain gel Forte applied as you should
Because in the external application of Voltaren Pain gel forte the overall organism is largely spared, an overdose is extremely unlikely even in large-scale and longer use.
With significant exceeding the recommended dosage when used on the skin, the gel should be removed again and washed off with water.
In accidental swallowing (eg in children) of Voltaren Pain Gel Forte, please notify your doctor who will decide on appropriate measures.

If you use the application of Voltaren Pain gel forgot forte
Do not apply twice the dose if you forget the previous application.
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 assessment of side effects is based on the following frequency information:

Very often:	more than 1 out of 10 treated
Frequently:	less than 1 out of 10, but more than 1 of 100 treated
Occasionally:	less than 1 of 100, but more than 1 of 1,000 Treated
Rarely:	less than 1 of 1,000, but more than 1 out of 10,000 Treated
Very rare:	less than 1 out of 10,000 treated
Not known:	Frequency on the basis of the available data not estimable

possible side effects
The following side effects can have serious consequences, use Voltaren Pain gel does not follow any further and look for your doctor as soon as possible. Rare: Skin inflammation with blistering (bullous dermatitis). Very rare: whistling breath, shortness of breath or sensing in the chest (asthma), swelling of face, lips, tongue or throat (angioedema).
Other possiblehe side effects are usually easy, temporary and harmless (ask a doctor or pharmacist for advice when they are worried). Often: rash, eczema, skin rotation (erythema), dermatitis (including contact dermatitis), itching (pruritus). Very rare: Pustel-like rash, hypersensitivity reactions (including hives), photosensitivity with occurrence of skin symptoms after lighting action (photosensitization).
If Voltaren Pain gel Forte applied across the skin to the skin and is used over a longer period of time is the occurrence of systemic side effects (eg renal, hepatic or gastrointestinal side effects, systemic hypersensitivity reactions), as may occur according to systemic use Diclofenac-containing medicines , not be ruled out.

Which countermeasures can be saved with side effects?
If you notice or suspect one of the above-mentioned side effects, use Voltaren Pain gel do not stay any further and please inform your doctor or pharmacist.

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 effectively effect the Federal Institute
for medicines and medical devices, Dept. Pharmacovigilance,
Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger Allee 3, D-53175 Bonn,
Website: www.bfarm.de.
By reporting side effects, you can do it
contribute to the fact that more information about the safety of this
Medicinal products are provided.

5. How is Voltaren Pain Gel Store?
Keep this medicine inaccessible to children.
This medicinal product does not require special storage conditions.
You may not use this medicine after the expiration date specified on the folding box and on the TUBE.

Note on durability after a break
The medicine is after opening 3 years, but at most up to the expiry date mentioned on the package, durable.

6. Content of the pack and further information

What Voltaren Pain gel forte contains
The active ingredient is Diclofenac, DietylamineSalz 23.2 mg in 1 g gel (corresponding to 20 mg of diclofenac sodium).
The other ingredients are: purified water; 2-propanol; Propylene glycol; Cocoylcaprylocaprat; Paraffin; Macrogolcetylstearyl ether; Carbomer; Diethylamine; Oleyl alcohol; Eucalyptus-containing partum; Butylhydroxytoluene.

Like Voltaren Pain gel forte looks and content of the pack
White to slightly milky gel for external use packs of 100 g and 150 g gel.

Pharmaceutical entrepreneur and manufacturer
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
? 80258 Munich
\3 Barthstraße 4, 80339 Munich
Telephone (089) 78 77-209
Fax (089) 78 77-304
E-mail: [email protected]

This leaflet was last revised in June 2016.

Dear user, dear user,
Before the first application, please open the tube as follows:

1. The triangular cap grab with 3 fingers on the ribbed places, then turn a half turn counterclockwise and then pull the cap off the tube.
2. Open the safety closure by pressing the recess on the outside of the locking cap on the safety lock on the tube. Please do not open the safety lock with a scissors or other sharp objects!
3. Now remove through a short, tight rotate the safety lock on the tubular opening. Now you can Voltaren Apply pain gel forte as usual. After use, store the tube standing on the cap.

Source: Information of the package leaflet, www.voltaren.de
Status: 06/2016