Pharmacy on Web

Aricept 10mg 28 tablets

This Prescription medicine can only be dispensed within NZ

To Purchase Aricept Online you must have a prescription written by a NZ registered doctor. The prescription can be faxed to us but the original must be posted to us after you have finish your online payment so that our pharmacist can processed your prescription in our dispensary.

Your prescription medicines will not be delivered until the original prescription is in the possession of our pharmacist

In New Zealand

Aricept 10mg 28 tabs

• Aricept tablets are used to treat mild, moderate and severe Alzheimer's disease, also called dementia of the Alzheimer's type.
• Aricept will not cure this disease, but should help your memory and improve your thinking capacity.

Aricept 10mg 28 tabs

Special features

• Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.
• Treatment of mild to severe Alzheimer's disease,vascular dementia.

Aricept 10mg 28 tabs

Ingredients:
Donepezil hydrochloride
lactose; f-c; white (5 mg), yellow (10 mg); marked ARICEPT and strength on reverse.

Directions

Dose: May be taken with or without food. Take ONE tablet once daily before bed.

Aricept 10mg 28 tablets

Side Effects
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you notice any of the following and they worry you:

• heartburn, indigestion, or stomach pain
• headache, dizziness
• difficulty in sleeping
• unusual tiredness
• feeling sick, diarrhoea, vomiting,
• loss of appetite, weight loss
• bruising
• muscle cramps, joint pain
• tingling or numbness of the hands or feet
• depression, unusual dreams
• agitation, aggressive behaviour
• difficulty in urinating or passing urine more often.
• seeing, feeling or hearing things that are not there
• trembling and shaking of the hands and fingers
• shuffling walk and stiffness of the arms and legs
• severe upper stomach pain, often with nausea, vomiting and fever.

If any of the following happen, tell your doctor immediately or go to Accident and Emergency at your

nearest hospital:

• any breathing problems
• sudden signs of allergy such as rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, tongue or other
• parts of the body, shortness of breath, wheezing or difficulty breathing.
• fainting, especially if you have a slow or irregular heart beat
• vomiting blood or material that looks like coffee grounds
• black sticky bowel motions (stools)
• convulsions or fits
• weakness, shortness of breath, yellowing of the skin, dark brown urine and stomach pain
• sudden increase in body temperature, extremely high blood pressure and severe convulsions.

Warnings and precautions

Contraindications:
Tell your doctor if you have or have had any of the following medical conditions:

• heart problems
• stomach problems, particularly gastric or duodenal ulcer
• seizures or fits (epilepsy)
• asthma or obstructive pulmonary disease
• loss of memory or other mental capacity due to stroke or blood vessel problems
• a tendency towards aggressive behaviour.

Interacrions:
Some medicines and Aricept may interfere with each other. These include:

• any other medicine for dementia
• some medicines used to relieve stomach cramps or spasms, Parkinson's disease or travel sickness
• some medicines used to treat difficulty in passing urine
• non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) - medicines used to treat arthritis, pain or inflammation
• some medicines used to relax muscles
• some medicines used to treat high blood pressure or fast heart beat
• some medicines used to treat irregular heart beat such as quinidine
• some medicines for treating asthma, diarrhoea, depression, schizophrenia and related mental conditions, or used in general anaesthesia
• carbamazepine, phenobarbitone or phenytoin, medicines used to treat epilepsy
• ketoconazole, a medicine used to treat fungal infections
• rifampicin, an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis
• dexmethasone, a corticosteroid medicine.

These medicines may be affected by Aricept or may affect how well it works. You may need different

amounts of your medicines, or you may need to take different medicines.

If you are not sure if you are taking any of these medicines, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

Classification
Prescription only medicines