Please refer to the instructions on the prescription established by your medical doctor.
Monotherapy (from 16 years of age)
- Adults (≥18 years) and adolescents (from 16 years of age):
Measure the appropriate dosage using the 10 ml syringe included in the package for patients 4 years and above. Recommended dose: Levetiracetam is taken twice daily, in two equally divided doses, each individual dose being measured between 5ml (500mg), and 15ml (1500mg).
When you will first start taking Levetiracetam, your doctor will prescribe you a lower dose during 2 weeks before giving you the lowest daily dose
Add-on therapy
- Dose in adults and adolescents (12 to 17 years):
Measure the appropriate dosage using the 10ml syringe included in the package for patients of 4 years and above.
Recommended dose: Levetiracetam is taken twice daily, in two equally divided doses, each individual dose being measured between 5ml (500mg), and 15ml (1500mg).
-Dose in children 6 months and older:
Your doctor will prescribe the most appropriate pharmaceutical form of Levetiracetam according to the age, weight, and dose.
- For children 6 months to 4 years, measure the appropriate dosage using the 3ml syringe included in the package.
- For children above 4 years, measure the appropriate dosage using the 10ml syringe included in the package.
Recommended dose: Levetiracetam is taken twice daily, in two equally divided doses, each individual dose being measured between 0.1ml (10mg) and 0.3ml (30mg), per kg bodyweight of the child. Please refer to the Patient Information Leaflet provided above for detailed information).
Method of administration:
After measuring the correct dosage with the appropriate syringe, levetiracetam oral solution may be diluted in a glass of water of baby bottle.
Instruction for use:
- Open the bottle: press the cap and turn it anticlockwise.
- Separate the adaptor from the syringe. Insert the adaptor supplied into the bottle neck. Ensure it is well fixed.
- Take the syringe and put it in the adaptor opening. Turn the bottle upside down.
- Fill the syringe with a small amount of solution by pulling the piston down, then push the piston upward in order to remove any possible bubble. Pull the piston down to the graduation mark corresponding to the quantity in milliliters (ml) prescribed by your doctor.
-Turn the bottle the right way up. Remove the syringe from the adaptor.
- Empty the contents of the syringe in a glass of water or baby’s bottle by pushing the piston to the bottom of the syringe.
- Drink the whole contents of the glass/baby’s bottle.
- Close the bottle with the plastic screw cap.
- Wash the syringe with water only.
