MEFLOQUINE HYDROCHLORIDE- mefloquine hydrochloride tablet 
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MEDICATION GUIDE

Read this entire Medication Guide before you start taking Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This information does not take the place of talking to your doctor about your medical condition or your treatment.

What is the most important information I should know about Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

Your doctor or pharmacist will give you an Information Wallet Card along with this Medication Guide. It has important information about Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets and should be carried with you at all times while you take Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets.

Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets can cause serious mental problems.

In some patients these serious side effects can go on after Mefloquine is stopped.


What are Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets are a prescription medicine used to prevent and treat malaria. Malaria can be a life-threatening infection. Mefloquine does not work for all types of malaria.

It is not known if Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets are safe and effective in children under 6 months old for the treatment of malaria.

It is not known how well Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets work to prevent malaria in infants weighing less than 44 lbs (20 kg).

Who should not take Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

Do not take Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets if you have:

Talk to your doctor before you take Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets if you have any of the conditions listed above.

What should I tell my doctor before taking Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

Before taking Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets, tell your doctor about all your medical conditions, including if you have:

After leaving a malaria area, if you have a fever contact your doctor right away.

Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets and other medicines may affect each other causing side effects.

Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of them and show it to your doctor and pharmacist when you get a new medicine.

Especially tell your doctor if you take:

Ask your doctor or pharmacist for a list of these medicines if you are not sure.

How should I take Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

What should I avoid while taking Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

Avoid activities such as driving a car or using heavy machinery or other activities needing alertness and careful movements (fine motor coordination) until you know how mefloquine affects you. You may feel dizzy or lose your balance. This could happen for months after you stop taking mefloquine. See “What are the possible side effects of mefloquine?”

What are the possible side effects of Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

Also see “What is the most important information I should know about Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?”

Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets may cause serious side effects, including:

The most common side effects of Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets include:

The most common side effects in people who take Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets for treatment include:

Tell your doctor if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets. For more information, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.

How should I store Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

Keep Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets and all medicines out of the reach of children.


General information about the safe and effective use of Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets.

Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Medication Guide. Do not use Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give mefloquine to other people, even if they have the same symptoms that you have. It may harm them.

This Medication Guide summarizes the most important information about mefloquine. If you would like more information, talk with your doctor. You can ask your pharmacist or doctor for information about mefloquine that is written for health professionals.

If you have any questions or would like more information about Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets, you can call West-ward Pharmaceutical Corp., the manufacturer of Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets, at 1-877-233-2001.

What are the ingredients in Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets?

Active ingredients: mefloquine hydrochloride

Inactive ingredients: colloidal silicon dioxide, corn starch, crospovidone, lactose monohydrate, lactose spray dried, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, polysorbate 80, polyvinylpyrrolidone and talc.

This Medication Guide has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

 

Information Wallet Card
Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets
It is important that you read the entire Medication Guide for additional
information on Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets.
Carry this wallet card with you when you are taking Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets.

You need to take malaria prevention medicine before you travel to a malaria area, while you are in a malaria area, and after you return from a malaria area.

Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets can cause serious mental problems in some people. If you takeMefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets and you have sudden signs of serious mental problems (such as: severe anxiety, feelings of mistrust towards others, seeing or hearing things that are not there, depression, feeling restless, unusual behavior or feeling confused), you should contact a doctor right away as it may be necessary to stop taking Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets and take different medicine to prevent malaria.

Other side effects from Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets may include: convulsions, liver problems, and heart problems. The most common side effects of Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, dizziness or loss of balance (vertigo) which may continue for months after Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets are stopped, headache, and sleeping problems (sleepiness, unable to sleep, bad dreams).

While you take Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets, do not take:

  • Halofantrine (used to treat malaria)
  • Ketoconazole (used for fungal infections)
  • Quinine (Qualaquin) or quinidine (used to treat malaria or irregular heart beat)
  • Chloroquine (Aralen) (used to treat malaria)

Avoid activities such as driving a car or using heavy machinery or other activities needing alertness and careful movements (fine motor coordination) until you know how Mefloquine Hydrochloride Tablets affect you.

Other medicines are approved in the United States for malaria prevention. However, not all malaria medicines work equally well in different malaria areas. Before you travel, talk to your doctor about your travel plans.

If you have any serious side effects, and cannot get another medicine, leave the malaria area and contact a doctor as soon as possible because leaving the malaria area may not protect you from getting malaria. You will still need to take a malaria prevention medicine.

Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.

You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.

                                      Card Revised: 03/10

Manufactured by:
West-ward Pharmaceutical Corp.
Eatontown, NJ 07724
Revised March 2010

Repackaged by:

Rebel Distributors Corp

Thousand Oaks, CA 91320

Revised: 2/2012
Rebel Distributors Corp