Active ingredients: Escitalopram
CIPRALEX 20 mg/ml oral drops, solution.
Oral drops, solution.
Clear, nearly colourless to yellowish solution with a bitter taste.
Each ml of solution contains: 20 mg escitalopram (as 25.551 mg escitalopram oxalate).
Each drop contains 1 mg escitalopram.
Excipients with known effect: each drop contains 4.7 mg ethanol.
For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
Escitalopram is a selective inhibitor of serotonin (5-HT) re-uptake with high affinity for the primary binding site. It also binds to an allosteric site on the serotonin transporter, with a 1000 fold lower affinity.
Propyl gallate
Citric acid anhydrous
Ethanol 96%
Sodium hydroxide
Purified water
15 ml in a brown glass bottle with dropper applicator (polyethylene), and child-proof screw cap (polypropylene).
H. Lundbeck A/S, Ottilavaj 9, 2500 Valby, Denmark
PL 13761/0028
Date of first authorisation: 03 January 2008
Date of latest renewal: 11 December 2011