PARACETAMOL IV-100ML

This is paracetamol as an intravenous infusion — 1000 mg in a 100 ml bottle. It is a hospital-use form of the familiar pain-and-fever medicine, given through a vein when a patient cannot swallow or when fast, reliable relief is needed, such as after surgery.

• Used for short-term treatment of moderate pain, especially after surgery
• Used to bring down fever quickly when the IV route is justified
• Used when patients cannot take paracetamol by mouth

Paracetamol changes the way the body senses pain and acts on the brain's temperature centre to cool a fever.

Given as a slow infusion into a vein by a doctor or nurse in a hospital or clinic. Never self-administered.

• Generally well tolerated at correct doses
• Pain at the infusion site
• Rarely, allergic reactions such as rash — report these at once

The big risk with paracetamol is overdose, which can seriously damage the liver — doctors count every source of paracetamol the patient is receiving to stay within safe daily limits. Extra caution is needed with liver disease or regular alcohol use. For hospital/clinical use on prescription only.

Store below 25°C, protected from light. Handled and stored by the healthcare facility; keep away from children.