Always take Levetiracetam Hexalthis medicine exactly as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure. Levetiracetam Hexal must be taken twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, at
about the same time each day. Take the oral solution following your doctor’s instructions.
Monotherapy
Dose in adults and adolescents (from 16 years of age) :
General dose: between 10 ml (1,000 mg) and 30 ml (3,000 mg) each day, divided in 2 intakes per day.
When you will first start taking Levetiracetam Hexal, your doctor will prescribe you a lower dose during 2 weeks before giving you the lowest general dose.
Add-on therapy
Dose in adults and adolescents (12 to 17 years) weighing 50 kg or more:
General dose: between 10 ml (1,000 mg) and 30 ml (3,000 mg) each day divided in 2 intakes per day.
Dose in infants (6 to 23 months), children (2 to 11 years) and adolescents (12 to 17 years) weighing less than 50 kg:
Your doctor will prescribe the most appropriate pharmaceutical form of levetiracetam according to the age, weight and dose.
General dose: between 0.2 ml (20 mg) and 0.6 ml (60 mg) per kg bodyweight each day, divided in 2 intakes per day.
The exact quantity of oral solution formulation should be delivered using the syringe provided in the cardboard box.
| Weight | Starting dose: 0.1 ml/kg twice | Maximum dose: 0.3 ml/kg |
| | daily | twice daily |
| 6 kg | 0.6 ml twice daily | 1.8 ml twice daily |
| 8 kg | 0.8 ml twice daily | 2.4 ml twice daily |
| 10 kg | 1 ml twice daily | 3 ml twice daily |
| 15 kg | 1.5 ml twice daily | 4.5 ml twice daily |
| 20 kg | 2 ml twice daily | 6 ml twice daily |
| 25 kg | 2.5 ml twice daily | 7.5 ml twice daily |
| From 50 kg | 5 ml twice daily | 15 ml twice daily |
Dose in infants (1 month to less than 6 months):
General dose: between 0.14 ml (14 mg) and 0.42 ml (42 mg) per kg bodyweight each day, divided in 2 intakes per day. The exact quantity of oral solution formulation should be delivered using the syringe provided in the cardboard box.
Method of administration:
Levetiracetam Hexal may be diluted in a glass of water or baby’s bottle
.
Instructions for use:
- Open the bottle : press the cap and turn it anticlockwise (figure 1)
- Separate the adaptor from the syringe (figure 2) Insert the adaptor into the bottle neck. Ensure it is well fixed.
- Take the syringe and put it in the adaptor opening. Turn the bottle upside down (figure 3)
- Fill the syringe with a small amount of solution by pulling the piston down (figure 4 a), then push the piston upward in order to remove any possible bubble (figure 4 b) Pull the piston down to the graduation mark corresponding to the quantity in milliliters (ml) prescribed by your doctor (figure 4 c).
- Turn the bottle the right way up. Remove the syringe from the adaptor.
- Empty the contents of the syringe in a glass of water or baby’s bottle by pushing the piston to the bottom of the syringe (figure 5).
- Drink the whole contents of the glass/baby’s bottle.
- Close the bottle with the plastic screw cap.
- Wash the syringe with water (figure 6)
Duration of treatment:
- Levetiracetam Hexal is used as a chronic treatment. You should continue Levetiracetam Hexal treatment for as long as your doctor has told you.
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Do not stop your treatment without your doctor’s advice as this could increase your seizures. Should your doctor decide to stop your Levetiracetam Hexal treatment, he/she will instruct you about the gradual withdrawal of Levetiracetam Hexal.
If you take more Levetiracetam Hexal than you should
The possible side effects of an overdose of Levetiracetam Hexalare sleepiness, agitation, aggression, decrease of alertness, inhibition of breathing and coma. Contact your doctor if you took more than you should.
Your doctor will establish the best possible treatment of overdose.
If you forget to take Levetiracetam Hexal
Contact your doctor if you have missed one or more doses.
Do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten dose.
If you stop taking Levetiracetam Hexal
If stopping treatment, as with other antiepileptic medicines, Levetiracetam Hexal should be discontinued gradually to avoid an increase of seizures.
If you have any further questions on the use of this medicine, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
