The professional's guide to product selection
By mouth
• Adult: usual range 0.5–5 mg daily.
By intramuscular injection or by slow intravenous injection or infusion
• Adult: 4–20 mg, repeated up to 4 times in 24 hours.
By mouth
• Adult: usual range 0.5–5 mg daily.
By intramuscular injection or by slow intravenous injection or infusion
• Adult: 4–20 mg, repeated up to 4 times in 24 hours.
By mouth
• Adult: usual range 0.5–5 mg daily.
By intramuscular injection or by slow intravenous injection or infusion
• Adult: 4–20 mg, repeated up to 4 times in 24 hours.
By mouth
• Adult: usual range 0.5–5 mg daily.
By intramuscular injection or by slow intravenous injection or infusion
• Adult: 4–20 mg, repeated up to 4 times in 24 hours.
By mouth
• Adult: usual range 0.5–5 mg daily.
By intramuscular injection or by slow intravenous injection or infusion
• Adult: 4–20 mg, repeated up to 4 times in 24 hours.
By mouth
• Adult: usual range 0.5–5 mg daily.
By intramuscular injection or by slow intravenous injection or infusion
• Adult: 4–20 mg, repeated up to 4 times in 24 hours.
• Adults: 2–3 drops into each nostril twice daily.
Long-acting muscarinic antagonist, Long-acting beta 2 agonist.
Adult: two inhalations twice daily.
Sedating antihistamine.
By mouth for symptomatic relief of allergy such as hay fever, urticaria, food allergy, drug reactions, relief of itch associated with chickenpox.
• Child 1–23 months: 1 mg, twice daily.
• Child 2–5 years: 1 mg, every 4–6 hours, maximum 6 mg daily.
• Child 6–11 years: 2 mg, every 4–6 hours, maximum 12 mg daily.
• Over 12 years: 4 mg, every 4–6 hours, maximum 24 mg daily
• Elderly: 4 mg, every 4–6 hours, maximum 12 mg daily.
Emergency treatment of anaphylactic reactions or symptomatic relief of allergy by intramuscular injection or by intravenous injection over 1 minute.
• Child 1–5 months: 250 mcg/kg (maximum per dose 2.5 mg), max 4 doses daily
• Child 6 months–5 years: 2.5 mg, maximum 4 doses per day.
• Child 6–11 years: 5 mg, maximum 4 doses per day.
• Over 12 years: 10 mg, maximum 4 doses per day.
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can be used:
• to replace cigarettes after total cessation of smoking
• to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked in the lead-up to cessation
• to treat cravings and reduce compensatory smoking that might take place after a period of time in a no-smoking environment.