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Buscopan IBS Relief Tablets

Buscopan IBS Relief Tablets

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Buscopan IBS Relief Tablets information

Buscopan IBS Relief Tablets are part of a drug family known as antispasmodics. Buscopan Tablets help relieve the pain of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

Buscopan targets the pain of IBS, helping to relax the bowel muscles. This helps to stop your muscle spasms and decrease your discomfort.

What Is IBS?

IBS is a condition that affects your digestive system, causing painful and irritable symptoms:

  • Bloating
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhoea
  • Stomach cramps

Suffering from IBS makes the muscles of your bowels sensitive to food, anxiety, and stress. It is common to suffer from IBS and there is currently no cure for it.

You can find more information about IBS at the official NHS Irritable Bowel Syndrome page.

You Should Not Take Buscopan Tablets If:

  • You are allergic to any of the ingredients of Buscopan IBS relief.
  • You are intolerant or cannot digest some sugars (as the tablet coating contains a small amount of sucrose)
  • You have glaucoma (an eye problem)
  • You have megacolon (a very enlarged bowel)
  • You have something called ‘myasthenia gravis’ (a very rare muscle weakness problem)
  • If you are pregnant, likely to get pregnant, or are breast feeding.

Be Careful When Taking Buscopan Tablets If:

  • You are 40 years or over and it is some time since your last attack of IBS or the symptoms are different this time.
  • You have recently passed blood from the bowel
  • You have severe constipation
  • You are feeling sick or vomiting
  • You have lost your appetite or lost weight
  • You have difficulty or pain passing water (urine)
  • You have a fever
  • You have recently travelled abroad (in case you have picked up a stomach bug)
  • You have a very fast heart rate or other heart problems
  • You have been treated by a Doctor for a severe sweating problem.

Speak To Your Doctor If You Experience:

  • Fever
  • Feeling sick
  • Being sick
  • Changes in your bowel movements
  • Abdominal tenderness
  • Low blood pressure
  • Feeling faint
  • Blood in your bowel movements.

You should also speak to your doctor prior to taking Buscopan, if you have an underlying medical condition.

Inform Your Doctor If You Are Taking These Medicines:

  • Antihistamines- Taken for hay fever
  • Tetracyclic or tricyclic medicines - used to treat depression and some types of pain
  • Antipsychotic medicines – used to treat severe mental illness
  • Dopamine antagonists such as metoclopramide for feeling sick
  • Beta 2 adrenergic medicines - such as inhalers for asthma.
  • Quinidine or disopyramide – used to control your heart beat
  • Amantadine – used for Parkinson's disease and flu
  • Anticholinergic medicines – usually inhaled to treat breathing problems.

Please read all packaging and the Product Information Leaflet before taking any new medicine and inform your doctor of medicines you are taking or intend to take.

Buscopan IBS dosage

Each tablet should be swallowed whole with a glass of water. You must not chew your tablet.

Adults and children 12 years or over:

  • Start by taking 1 tablet three times a day
  • You can increase your dose to a maximum of 2 tablets four times a day, if needed

BUSCOPAN IBS RELIEF is not recommended for children under 12 years.

You can find the full directions for use in the patient information leaflet. Please read it before you take your Buscopan IBS Tablets.

The active ingredients contained in Buscopan IBS relief is:

Hyoscine butylbromide

Buscopan IBS relief tablets also contains the following inactive ingredients to make up the complete product:

Calcium hydrogen phosphate, maize starch, soluble starch, colloidal silica, tartaric acid, stearic acid, sucrose, talc, acacia, titanium dioxide, macrogol 6000, carnauba wax, white beeswax and povidone.

Not everyone will experience side effects when they take Buscopan IBS relief, however if you do they can include:

Uncommon (affects fewer than 1 in 100 people)

Dry mouth, Dyshidrosis (outbreaks of sweat and dryness of the skin)

If you are concerned about these effects, or if the product affects you in any other way, stop using it and talk to your doctor or pharmacist.

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Andy is a co-founder and the Superintendent Pharmacist and Director at The Independent Pharmacy.