Active ingredients: Acetazolamide
DIAMOX 250mg Tablets.
Acetazolamide Mercury Pharma 250mg Tablets.
Tablet.
Round, convex, white tablets engraved with “FW 147” on one side and cored in quarters on the other.
Each tablet contains 250mg acetazolamide BP.
For excipients see 6.1.
Acetazolamide is an enzyme inhibitor which acts specifically on carbonic anhydrase. By inhibiting the reaction catalysed by this enzyme in the renal tubules, acetazolamide increases the excretion of bicarbonate and of cations, chiefly sodium and potassium, and so promotes alkaline diuresis. By inhibiting carbonic anhydrase in the eye acetazolamide decreases intra-ocular pressure and is therefore useful in the treatment of glaucoma.
Dicalcium phosphate
Corn starch
Magnesium stearate
Sodium starch glycolate
Povidone
Amber glass bottles with metal screw-on caps.
Polypropylene bottles with plastic screw-on caps.
The product is supplied in bottles of 112 tablets.
Mercury Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Capital House, 85 King William Street, London EC4N 7BL, UK
PL 12762/0147
12/12/2003