Lokelma 10 G 30 Sachets

Product Description:

• Lokelma contains the active substance sodium zirconium cyclosilicate.


• Lokelma is used to treat hyperkalaemia in adults. Hyperkalaemia means that there is a high level of potassium in the blood.


• Lokelma lowers the high levels of potassium in your body and helps to keep it at a normal level.


• As Lokelma passes through your stomach and gut it attaches to potassium and the two are carried together out of the body in your stools, lowering the amount of potassium in the body.

How to use:

• Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.

Starting dose - to lower your high potassium level to normal:

• The recommended dose is 10 g taken three times a day.


• The medicine takes one to two days to work.


• Do not take this starting dose for more than three days.

Maintenance dose - to keep your potassium level within the normal range after it has been lowered:

• The recommended dose is 5 g taken once a day.


• Your doctor may decide that you need more (10 g once a day) or less than this (5 g every other day).


• Do not take a maintenance dose of more than 10 g once a day.

If you are on haemodialysis therapy:

• Take Lokelma only on non-dialysis days.


• The recommended starting dose is 5 g taken once a day.


• Your doctor may decide that you need more (up to 15 g once a day).


• Do not take more than 15 g once a day.

Taking this medicine

• Try to take Lokelma at the same time each day.


• You can take this medicine with or without meal.

How to take

• Open the sachet and pour the powder into a drinking glass with approximately 45 ml of still (non-carbonated) water.


• Stir well and drink the tasteless liquid straight away.


• The powder does not dissolve and the liquid appears cloudy.


• The powder will settle in the glass quickly. If this happens, stir the liquid again and drink it all up.


• Rinse the glass with more water and drink it all up to take all the medicine.
  

Ingredients:

• The active substance is sodium zirconium cyclosilicate.


• Lokelma 10 g powder for oral suspension


• Each sachet contains 10 g of sodium zirconium cyclosilicate.