Myolax Plus(Tolperisone & Lidocaine)

Therapeutic Group: Skeletal Muscle Relaxant

Presentation

Each 1 ml ampoule contains Tolperisone HCl INN 100 mg and Lidocaine HCl USP 2.5 mg.

Description

Tolperisone Hydrochloride is a centrally acting muscle relaxant. It effectively reduces muscular hypertonicity, improves peripheral blood flow by vasodilatation and reduces pain.

Lidocaine stabilizes the neuronal membrane by inhibiting the ionic fluxes required for the initiation and conduction of impulses, thereby effecting local anesthetic action.

Indications

Increased tone of skeletal muscles due to organic neurological disorders (e.g. injury of the pyramidal tract, multiple sclerosis, myelopathy, encephalomyelitis etc.), muscular hypertension, muscular spasm, muscular contracture, rigidity, spinal automatism and discopathy, obliterative vascular diseases (obliterative arteriosclerosis, diabetic angiopathy, obliterative thromboangitis, Raynaud’s disease, diffuse scleroderma) and disorders due to injured innervation of the vessels (acrocyanosis, intermittent angioneurotic dysbasia). In individual cases, post-thrombotic venous and lymphatic circulation disorders, crural ulcer.

Dosage & Administration

The usual dose is one ampoule twice daily by intramuscularly. Injection should be given slowly.
Accordingly to age and symptom, the dosage may be changed.

Side Effects

Sometimes, muscular weakness, headache, nausea, vomiting and rarely hypersensitivity reactions may occur as side effects.

Precautions

In case of children, the prescribed dose and duration of treatment should closely be observed.

Use in Pregnancy & Lactation

Tolperisone hydrochloride should be used in pregnancy according to physician’s advice. Tolperisone hydrochloride should not be used during breast feeding.

Over Dose

In the event of over dosage, supportive therapy may be substituted.

Commercial Pack

Each box contains 5 ampoules of 1 ml.