Strawberry flavoured, melt in the mouth tablets used to relieve pain such as tooth pain, headache, sore throat and aches and pains that come with colds and flu. It also brings down fever (high temperature).
As with all medicines, if your child is currently taking any other medicine, consult your doctor or pharmacist before using this product. If symptoms persist consult your doctor.
Do not give your child this medicine...
- If s/he has ever had a bad reaction to paracetamol or any of the other ingredients in this medicine
- If s/he is taking anything else with paracetamol in it.
If s/he has phenylketonuria (a hereditary disease discovered at birth.) - If any of these applies, get advice from a doctor or pharmacist without using Calpol.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist: before taking this medicines: If your child is dehydrated or chronically malnourished or any of the folllowing conditions
- serious kidney or liver problems,
- an inherited intolerance to fructose or been diagnosed with an intolerance to some other sugars
- Gilbert’s syndrome (familial non-haemolytic jaundice),
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency,
- haemolytic anaemia
- glutathione deficiency.