Dosage

Duration of treatment is limited to one year.

Take Reductil exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Recommended starting dose of Reductil: 10 mg administered once daily with or without food. To achieve the best results, Reductil should be taken with a low calorie diet.

If there is inadequate weight loss, the dose may be titrated after 4 weeks to a total of 15 mg once daily.

Blood pressure and heart rate changes should be taken into account when making decisions about dose titration.

Doses above 15 mg daily are not recommended.

In most of the clinical trials, REDUCTIL was given in the morning.

If no response is seen after 3 months, the treatment should be stopped.

Elderly Patients: REDUCTIL is contraindicated for elderly patients over 65 years of age.
Children: REDUCTIL is contraindicated for children under 18 years of age.

Missed Doses of Reductil Slimming Pills

If you miss a dose of Reductil do not double the next dose, wait until the regular scheduled time to take the medication. Then return to your regular dosing schedule.

Overdosage

There is very limited experience of overdosing with sibutramine. No specific therapeutic measures are recommended and there is no specific antidote. Treatment should consist of general measures employed in the management of overdosage: an airway should be established;cardiac and vital sign monitoring is recommended; general symptomatic and supportive measures should be instituted. The benefits of forced diuresis and haemodialysis are unknown.

There are a number of reports of overdose in humans where doses of up to 500 mg sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate were ingested. A heart rate of 160 beats per minute was observed in one patient who took 500 mg sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate.