Source: Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (NZ) Revision Year: 2017 Publisher: Bayer New Zealand Limited, 3 Argus Place, Hillcrest, North Shore, AUCKLAND 0627 Free Phone: 0800 233 988
Microlut 30 micrograms tablets.
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Sugar-coated tablets. The tablets are white, biconvex, round and 5.7 mm in diameter. |
One tablet contains 30 micrograms levonorgestrel.
For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
| Active Ingredient | Description | |
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| Levonorgestrel |
The precise mode of action of levonorgestrel as an emergency contraceptive is not known. At the recommended regimen, levonorgestrel is thought to work mainly by preventing ovulation and fertilisation if intercourse has taken place in the preovulatory phase, when the likelihood of fertilisation is the highest. |
| List of Excipients |
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Calcium carbonate, glycol montanate, lactose monohydrate, macrogol 6000, magnesium stearate, maize starch, povidone, purified talc, sucrose. Microlut is gluten free. |
PVC/Aluminium blisters. Pack sizes of 1 × 28 or 3 × 28 tablets.
Not all pack sizes may be marketed.
Bayer New Zealand Limited, 3 Argus Place, Hillcrest, North Shore, AUCKLAND 0627
Free Phone: 0800 233 988
Date of first approval: 08 February 1973
| Drug | Countries | |
|---|---|---|
| MICROLUT | Australia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nigeria, New Zealand |
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