What are Avomine Tablets?

Avomine Tablets are an anti-emetic (anti-sickness drug) which helps to prevent, and treat nausea and vomiting, including travel sickness and vertigo.

Avomine contains promethazine which belongs to a group of medicines called phenothiazines. Your doctor may prescribe this medicine for giddiness or light-headedness (vertigo), or for sickness after an operation, and in such cases the tablets should be taken as instructed by your doctor

How to take Avomine Tablets

Always take Avomine precisely as your doctor has told you. You should check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure. The usual dose is:

Adults

For the prevention of travel sickness on long journeys

• Take one tablet each night at bedtime, starting the night before you travel.

For the prevention of travel sickness on short journeys

• Take one tablet one or two hours before travelling.

Treatment of travel sickness

• Take one tablet as soon as you feel sick, followed by a second tablet the same evening. Take a third tablet the next evening if necessary.

Nausea and vomiting due to other causes

• One tablet each night is usually enough, but some patients may require two or three tablets.
• These can be taken at intervals during the day, but it is often not necessary for more than 4 tablets to be needed in any 24 hours.

Children over 10 years old

• Give the lower adult dose (one tablet).

Children 5 - 10 years old

• Give half the lower adult dose (half a tablet).

Children 2 - 5 years old

• Avomine Tablets are not suitable for children 2 - 5 years old. An oral liquid is recommended.

What do Avomine Tablets contain?

Each tablet contains the active ingredient promethazine teoclate 25mg.