ventolin 2mg/5ml syrup

Highlights

Ventolin Syrup contains a medicine called salbutamol. This belongs to a group of medicines called bronchodilators. • Bronchodilators help the airways in your lungs to stay open. This makes it easier for air to get in and out. • They help to relieve chest tightness, wheezing and cough. 

Directions For Use

Over 12 years: the minimum starting dose is 2mg three times daily given as 5ml syrup. This may be increased to 4mg as 10ml syrup three or four times daily. Ventolin is well tolerated by children so that, if necessary, these doses may be cautiously increased to the maximum dose.

Warnings

Patients with liver or kidney disease and pregnant or breastfeeding patients should be advised that large amounts of benzyl alcohol can build up in the body and may cause metabolic acidosis.

Precautions

Ventolin Syrup contains 0.00003325 mg benzyl alcohol in each dosage unit. Benzyl alcohol may cause allergic reactions.