TACHIPIRINA CHILDREN 500 MG SUPPOSITORIES 10 SUPPOSITORIES

Name
TACHIPIRINA Children 250 mg suppositories
TACHIPIRINA Children 500 mg suppositories
Paracetamol


What is it and what is it for?
Tachipirina contains the active ingredient paracetamol which works by reducing fever (antipyretic) and relieving pain (analgesic).

Tachipirina is used in children with body weight between 11 and 40 kg for:
- the symptomatic treatment of febrile conditions such as influenza, exanthematous diseases (infectious diseases typical of children and adolescents), acute respiratory tract diseases, etc.;
- pain of various origins and natures (headaches, neuralgia, muscle pain and other moderately severe painful symptoms).

Contact your doctor if your child does not feel better or if he or she feels worse after 3 days of treatment.


What you need to know before taking the medicine
Do not give your child Tachipirina:
- if you are allergic to paracetamol or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6);
- if you suffer from severe haemolytic anaemia (destruction of red blood cells);
- if you suffer from severe liver disease (severe hepatocellular insufficiency).


Warnings and precautions
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before using Tachipirina.

In the following cases, give Tachipirina to the child with caution:
- if you suffer from anorexia (an eating disorder characterized by lack or reduction of appetite);
- if you suffer from bulimia (an eating disorder in which a person eats excessive amounts of food and then resorts to various methods to eliminate it);
- if you suffer from cachexia (a condition characterized by extreme thinness, reduced muscle mass and thinning of the skin due to chronic diseases);
- if you have been following an incorrect diet for a long time (chronic malnutrition);
- if you suffer from dehydration (severe loss of water/fluid from the body);
- if you suffer from hypovolemia (reduced blood volume in circulation);
- if you suffer from liver diseases that reduce its functionality (liver failure, hepatitis, Gilbert's syndrome);
- if you are taking concomitant medicines that alter liver function (see "Other medicines and Tachipirina");
- if you suffer from glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (a substance normally present in the human body, the deficiency of which can cause a blood disease);
- if you suffer from haemolytic anaemia (destruction of red blood cells).

Use of high doses and/or for prolonged periods
The use of high and/or prolonged doses of this medicine can cause serious kidney and blood problems. In these cases, your doctor will monitor liver and kidney function and blood composition over time through appropriate tests.
Before giving your child this medicine, tell your doctor if he or she has kidney or liver disease.

Children and adolescents
Tachipirina suppositories can be given to children with a body weight between 11 kg and 40 kg (see section 3 "How to use Tachipirina").


Possible side effects
Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

If your child experiences the following side effects STOP treatment with this medicine and contact your doctor immediately :
• allergic reactions with:
- redness of the skin accompanied by itching (hives);
- swelling of the throat (laryngeal edema);
- swelling of the hands, feet, ankles, face, lips, tongue and/or throat (angioedema);
- severe allergic reaction (anaphylactic shock).

Furthermore, people taking this medicine may experience the following side effects, for which there are not enough data to establish the frequency:
• reduction in the number of platelets in the blood (thrombocytopenia);

• reduction in the number of white blood cells in the blood (leukopenia/agranulocytosis);
• reduction of hemoglobin in the blood, the substance that carries oxygen in the blood (anemia);
• dizziness;
• stomach and intestinal reactions;
• abnormal liver function;
• inflammation of the liver (hepatitis);
• red spots, bullous lesions with areas of skin detachment, blisters, skin rashes (erythema multiforme, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis);
• reduction in kidney function (acute renal failure);
• inflammation of the kidneys (interstitial nephritis);
• blood in the urine (hematuria);
• cessation or reduction of urine production by the kidney (anuria).

Very rare cases of serious skin reactions have been reported.