Note: Dawa Paracetamol | Association of Dispensing Physicians

June 11, 2024

Author: Ailsa Colquhoun

Dawa said in an alert that three batches of Dawa Ltd’s paracetamol-coated tablets have incorrect PIL IDs.

The affected parties are:

Paracetamol 500 mg, coated tablets:

Paracetamol 1000 mg, coated tablets:

The affected section of the PIL is Section 2, which does not contain the most up-to-date information on the use of flucloxacillin as a concomitant drug.

Missing information is marked in bold below.

Taking other medicines with Paracetamol 500 mg/1000 mg film-coated tablets

Some other medicines may influence or affect the way Paracetamol 500 mg film-coated tablets work. Some of these drugs are listed below:

“Flucloxacillin (antibiotic) due to the serious risk of blood and fluid abnormalities (high anion gap metabolic acidosis) which require urgent treatment and which may occur particularly in cases of severe renal failure, sepsis (when bacteria and their toxins circulate in the blood leading to organ damage), malnutrition, chronic alcoholism and the use of maximum daily doses of paracetamol.”

You can access the updated PIL documents via the following links:

Paracetamol 500 mg, coated tablets

Paracetamol 1000 mg, coated tablets