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Xaluprine (previously Mercaptopurine Nova Laboratories)
mercaptopurine

Package leaflet: Information for the user


Xaluprine 20 mg/ml oral suspension

mercaptopurine


Read all of this leaflet carefully before you start taking this medicine because it contains important information for you.

Do not throw away any medicines via wastewater or household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to throw away medicines you no longer use. These measures will help protect the environment.


  1. Contents of the pack and other information What Xaluprine contains

The active substance is mercaptopurine (as monohydrate). One ml of suspension contains 20 mg of mercaptopurine monohydrate.


The other ingredients are xanthan gum, aspartame (E951), concentrated raspberry juice, sucrose, sodium methyl parahydroxybenzoate (E219), sodium ethyl parahydroxybenzoate (E215), potassium sorbate (E202), sodium hydroxide and purified water (see section 2 Xaluprine contains aspartame, sodium methyl parahydroxybenzoate (E219), sodium ethyl parahydroxybenzoate (E215) and sucrose).


What Xaluprine looks like and contents of the pack

Xaluprine is a pink to brown oral suspension. It comes in glass bottles of 100 ml capped with a child-resistant closure. Each pack contains one bottle, a bottle adaptor and two dosing syringes (a purple syringe graduated to 1 ml and a white syringe graduated to 5 ml). Your doctor or pharmacist will advise which syringe to use depending on the dose that has been prescribed.


Marketing Authorisation Holder Nova Laboratories Ireland Limited 3rd Floor, Ulysses House

Foley Street, Dublin 1 D01 W2T2

Ireland


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Manufacturer

MIAS Pharma Limited

Suite 2, Stafford House, Strand Road Portmarnock, Co. Dublin

D13H525

Ireland


Pronav Clinical Ltd. Unit 5

Dublin Road Business Park Carraroe, Sligo

F91 D439

Ireland


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