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Description and Label Names

Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®

US Brand Name


  1. Antivert
  2. Antivert25
  3. Antivert50
  4. Dramamine II
  5. Meclicot
  6. Meni-D
  7. Motion Sickness Relief
  8. Simply Motion
  9. Travel Sickness



Descriptions


Meclizine is hand-me-down to forestall and device nausea, vomiting, and dizziness caused during moving sickness. It is also in use accustomed to for vertigo (dizziness or lightheadedness) caused beside heed problems.


Meclizine is an antihistamine. It works to block the signals to the brain that ground nausea, vomiting, and dizziness.


This medicine is readily obtainable not with your doctor's prescription.



This offshoot is present in the following dosage forms:



  • Tablet

  • Tablet, Chewable

Before Using


In deciding to purchase a remedy, the risks of charming the medicine essential be weighed against the sensible it choose do. This is a conclusiveness you and your doctor will-power make. Seeking this panacea, the following should be considered:


Allergies


Tell your doctor if you own all the time had any unconventional or allergic feedback to this panacea or any other medicines. Also blab your vigour care proficient if you enjoy any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. Instead of non-prescription products, pore over the docket or package ingredients carefully.


Pediatric


Appropriate studies comprise not been performed on the relationship of maturity to the effects of Antivert® tablets and chewable tablets in children or Antivert®/25 or Antivert®/50 tablets in children younger than 12 years of age. Safe keeping and efficacy have not been established.


Geriatric


Appropriate studies performed to swain possess not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the worth of meclizine in the elderly. Anyway, senescent patients are more inclined to to get age-related liver, kidney, or verve problems, which may be short of admonishment and an adjustment in the measure in the service of patients receiving meclizine.


Breastfeeding


Studies in women introduce that this medication poses slightest danger to the infant when tempered to during breastfeeding.


Drug Interactions


Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be reach-me-down together even if an interaction energy occur. In these cases, your doctor may thirst for to novelty the quantity, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this drug, it is signally important that your healthcare maven comprehend if you are engaging any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions be experiencing been selected on the heart of their capability content and are not ineluctably all-inclusive.


Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may settle on not to gift you with this medication or hard cash some of the other medicines you take.




  • Potassium Citrate


  • Tranylcypromine


Using this medicament with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may shift the dose or how usually you have recourse to one or both of the medicines.




  • Alfentanil


  • Alprazolam


  • Amantadine


  • Amifampridine


  • Amobarbital


  • Anileridine


  • Benzhydrocodone


  • Bromazepam


  • Buprenorphine


  • Bupropion


  • Buspirone


  • Butabarbital


  • Butorphanol


  • Calcium Oxybate


  • Cannabidiol


  • Cannabis


  • Cetirizine


  • Chloral Hydrate


  • Chlordiazepoxide


  • Chlorpromazine


  • Clobazam


  • Clonazepam


  • Clorazepate


  • Clozapine


  • Codeine


  • Daridorexant


  • Dexmedetomidine


  • Diazepam


  • Difenoxin


  • Dihydrocodeine


  • Diphenhydramine


  • Diphenoxylate


  • Donepezil


  • Doxylamine


  • Esketamine


  • Estazolam


  • Eszopiclone


  • Ethchlorvynol


  • Ethylmorphine


  • Fentanyl


  • Flibanserin


  • Flurazepam


  • Fospropofol


  • Gabapentin


  • Gabapentin Enacarbil


  • Glucagon


  • Glycopyrrolate


  • Glycopyrronium Tosylate


  • Halazepam


  • Hydrocodone


  • Hydromorphone


  • Hydroxyzine


  • Ketamine


  • Ketazolam


  • Ketobemidone


  • Lacosamide


  • Lemborexant


  • LetibotulinumtoxinA-wlbg


  • Levocetirizine


  • Levorphanol


  • Lofexidine


  • Lorazepam


  • Loxapine


  • Magnesium Oxybate


  • Meperidine


  • Meprobamate


  • Methacholine


  • Methadone


  • Methotrimeprazine


  • Metoclopramide


  • Midazolam


  • Morphine


  • Morphine Sulfate Liposome


  • Nalbuphine


  • Nicomorphine


  • Nitrazepam


  • Olanzapine


  • Oliceridine


  • Opium


  • Opium Alkaloids


  • Oxazepam


  • Oxycodone


  • Oxymorphone


  • Papaveretum


  • Paregoric


  • Pentazocine


  • Pentobarbital


  • Periciazine


  • Phenobarbital


  • Piritramide


  • Pitolisant


  • Potassium Oxybate


  • Prazepam


  • Pregabalin


  • Promethazine


  • Propofol


  • Propoxyphene


  • Quazepam


  • Quetiapine


  • Ramelteon


  • Remifentanil


  • Remimazolam


  • Revefenacin


  • Ropeginterferon Alfa-2b-njft


  • Scopolamine


  • Secobarbital


  • Secretin Possibly manlike


  • Sodium Oxybate


  • Sufentanil


  • Tapentadol


  • Temazepam


  • Thioridazine


  • Tilidine


  • Tiotropium


  • Topiramate


  • Tramadol


  • Trazodone


  • Triazolam


  • Zaleplon


  • Zolpidem


  • Zopiclone


  • Zuranolone


Other Interactions


Certain medicines should not be hardened at or everywhere the duration of eating edibles or eating determined types of food since interactions may occur. Using john barleycorn or tobacco with sure medicines may also originator interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare expert the use of your remedy with eats, demon rum, or tobacco.


Other Medical Problems


The composure of other medical problems may affect the from of this medicine. Make unwavering you inform your doctor if you be struck by any other medical problems, specifically:




  • Asthma or


  • Enlarged prostate or


  • Glaucoma—Exploit with caution. May urge these conditions worse.




  • Kidney condition or


  • Liver disorder—Resort to with caution. The effects may be increased because of slower purge of the prescription from the body.


Proper Use


Take this panacea purely as directed by your doctor. Do not court more of it, do not round it more in many cases, and do not lay one's hands on it after a longer occasion than your doctor ordered.


Chew or crush the chewable slab soul in advance of swallowing. Do not swallow it whole.


Swallow the non-chewable tablet whole. Do not crush, chew, or improve it.


Dosing


The dispense of this nostrum purposefulness be different in behalf of opposite patients. Echo your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the undistinguished doses of this medicine. If your dispense is diverse, do not variation it unless your doctor tells you to do so.


The amount of nostrum that you lampoon depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the mob of doses you lift each broad daylight, the tempo allowed between doses, and the extent of habits you do c include the prescription depend on the medical unmanageable in search which you are using the medicine.




  • For vocalized dosage carriage (tablets):


    • Also in behalf of nausea, vomiting, and dizziness caused by motion sickness:


      • Adults—At original, 25 to 50 milligrams (mg) infatuated 1 hour in the forefront travel. You may haul another measure for good occasionally every 24 hours while traveling.


      • Children 12 years of age and older—Use and quantity be compelled be resolute sooner than your doctor.


      • Children younger than 12 years of age—Despise is not recommended.




    • As a service to dizziness:


      • Adults—25 to 100 milligrams (mg) per daytime, taken in divided doses.


      • Children—Put to use and measure be compelled be determined alongside your doctor.






Missed Quantity


If you dodge a measure of this drug, pirate it as at once as possible. Howsoever, if it is virtually heyday destined for your next dose, frisk the missed amount and last out bankrupt to your everyday dosing schedule. Do not double doses.


Storage


Store the medicine in a closed container at flat temperature, away from torridness, moisture, and ordain light. Observe from freezing.


Keep in view of the reach of children.


Do not mind outdated nostrum or remedy no longer needed.


Ask your healthcare wizard how you should discard of any remedy you do not use.


Precautions


It is hugely important that your doctor counterfoil your or your child's burgeoning at regular visits to make tried that this medicine is working suitably and to restrain after unwanted effects.


This remedy may justification some people to become lethargic or less agile than they are normally. Do not demand or do anything else that could be menacing until you recollect how this medicine affects you.


This remedy last wishes as tot up to the effects of liquor and other CNS depressants (medicines that add up to you torpid or less alert). Some examples of CNS depressants are antihistamines or prescription after hay fever, other allergies, or colds, sedatives, tranquilizers, antidepressants, or sleeping pharmaceutical, drug anguish remedy or narcotics, medicine in the interest of seizures or barbiturates, muscle relaxants, or anesthetics, including some dental anesthetics. Check up on with your medical doctor or dentist in front of enchanting any of the above while you or your newborn are using this medicine.


Side Effects


Along with its needed effects, a cure-all may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may come off, if they do cross someone's mind they may fundamental medical attention.


Check with your doctor tout de suite if any of the following side effects develop:


Incidence not known




  1. Cough


  2. obstacle swallowing


  3. dizziness


  4. drowsiness


  5. profligate heartbeat


  6. hives, itching, skin rash


  7. puffiness or protuberance of the eyelids or there the eyes, boldness, lips, or tongue


  8. tightness in the chest


  9. unusual tiredness or powerlessness


  10. vomiting


Some side effects may occur that most of the time do not need medical attention. These side effects may assail away during treatment as your density adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care talented may be capable to demand that you just about ways to prevent or adjust some of these side effects. Curb with your health charge professional if any of the following side effects extend or are bothersome or if you from any questions here them:


Rare




  1. Blurred far-sightedness


Incidence not known




  1. Dry mouth


  2. problem


Other side effects not listed may also come to pass in some patients. If you perceive any other effects, report register with your healthcare professional.


Call your doctor as a remedy for medical suggestion about side effects. You may record side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.