ESZOPICLONE

Indications & Dose:

Treatment of insomnia

• BY MOUTH

Elderly: 2mg immediatly before bedtime (max; 3mg)

Difficulty falling asleep;

Elderly: Initial 21mg immediatly before bedtime (max; 2mg)

Difficulty staying;

Elderly:2mg immediatly before bedtime

Children: Not recommended.

Note: use in caution in hepatic and renal failure 

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Lactations:

Excreted into breast milk 

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Counselling:

Side Effects Or Adverse Reactions:

CNS: Headache,

GI: unpleasant test

CV: Chest pain, peripheral edema

HEME: Granulocytopenia (rare), leukopenia 

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