March 28 2024

FLUNARIZINE

List of brands containing flunarizine   

This page contains a list of brands of authorized pharmaceutical specialties of the active principle flunarizine in the countries listed below:

Australia] [ Brazil] [ Canada] [ France] [ Germany] [ India] [ Italy] [ Japan] [ Korea] [ Mexico] [ Puerto Rico] [ Spain] [ Turkey] [ United Kingdom] [ U.S.A]

Given the nature of the pharmaceutical market, some specialties may be unavailable, have been removed from the pharmaceutical market or have changed its name. So that, in no case can take decisions based on the information contained in the page. MEDIZZINE is not responsible for any damage arising from the information provided, which may be incomplete or outdated.

Indications and usage     

Flunarizine is a selective blocker of calcium entry into cells.

This medicine is used to prevent migraine attacks in patients with severe and frequent attacks that do not respond adequately to other treatments and/or these cause unacceptable side effects.

It is also indicated for symptomatic treatment of vestibular vertigo, due to functional disorders of the vestibular system.

Medizzine recommends consulting your doctor if you are unsure (or you do not know) why you have been given flunarizine.

Other ingredients of available commercial presentations:

Each tablet contains 5 mg flunarizine.Excipients: lactose, corn starch, polyvinylpyrrolidone, microcrystalline cellulose, talc, and magnesium stearate. Capsules also contain lactose.

Warning:

The composition of the various presentations may vary from one country to another. We recommend you consult the information provided by your local supplier.

Important information     

This medicine, in capsules and tablets, contain lactose. If your doctor has told you that you have an intolerance to certain sugars, contact him before taking it.

Before taking the drug     

Do not use flunarizine

If you are allergic (hypersensitive) to the active substance flunarizine or any of the other ingredients of the medicinal product prescribed to you. If you think you may be allergic, ask your doctor.

Allergy symptoms may include:

- Asthma attacks with shortness of breath, audible wheezing or rapid breathing.
- More or less sudden swelling of the face, lips, tongue or elsewhere in the body. It is especially critical if it affects the vocal cords.
- Hives, itching, rash
- Anaphylactic shock (loss of consciousness, paleness, sweating, etc.).

Nor take this medicine:

- If you have a history of depression or you suffer now this disease.
- If you have or have previously had symptoms of Parkinson's disease or other extrapyramidal disorders, provoked or not by the use of certain drugs.

Take special care with flunarizine

In rare cases of fatigue, this may increase progressively during treatment with flunarizine. If this happens, tell your doctor who will assess the need for discontinuation.

You should not exceed recommended dose. Patients should be monitored at regular intervals, especially during maintenance treatment, to detect as soon as possible extrapyramidal or depressive symptoms and, if so, discontinue treatment. If during maintenance treatment, occurs a reduction of therapeutic effects, treatment will also be suspended.

Taking other medicines

Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines, including herbal products or drugs obtained without a prescription.

This medicine can enhance the sedative effects of alcohol, hypnotic, and tranquilizers when administered simultaneously with flunarizine.

If you are taking any of these medications, consult your doctor before taking flunarizine.

Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medicine only for you. Never give it to someone else.

Use with food and beverages

Alcohol enhances the effect of flunarizine, so you should abstain from alcohol during treatment with this medicine.

Special physiological situations

Always consult your doctor or pharmacist before taking any medicine during pregnancy or lactation.

Pregnancy and lactation

Safety of flunarizine has not been shown in humans during pregnancy. Is not advisable to breastfeeding while you are being treated with flunarizine, since there are no data available on its excretion in breast milk.

Children

It is not recommended for use in children.

Use in elderly

During treatment may occur extrapyramidal and depressive symptoms and develop parkinsonism, especially in patients predisposed to it, like elderly. Consequently, it should be used with caution in these patients

Driving and using machines

Flunarizine may cause drowsiness, particularly when starting treatment; drivers and people who handle dangerous machinery should take extra caution and should not drive or operate machinery or tools until verifying that the medication does not affect them.

Consult your doctor or pharmacist before taking any medicine.

How to use flunarizine     

Follow carefully the instructions of use of flunarizine provided by your doctor. Consult your doctor or pharmacist when in doubt. Follow the instructions of the physician in preference to those given on this website, which may be different. Ask your doctor to explain any aspect that you do not understand, contained in the instruction leaflet that comes with the medicine.

Migraine prophylaxis:

starting dose: treatment is initiated with 10 mg daily (at night) in patients under 65 years and 5 mg daily in patients 65 and older.

If during treatment you experience a depressive state, have reactions as abnormal eye movements, tremor, muscle stiffness, uncontrolled movements of hands, neck and head or legs, clumsiness, mental confusion or any other adverse reaction, immediately consult your doctor, who probably will suspend treatment with this medicine.

If, after 2 months of initial treatment, no significant improvement is observed, consult your doctor who probably will recommend treatment discontinuation.

Maintenance treatment: if you respond satisfactorily and maintenance treatment is needed, your doctor will proceed to reduce the daily dose, by administering the initial dose in weekly cycles of 5 days and 2 rest. Even when preventive maintenance treatment is successful and well tolerated, it should be interrupted after 6 months and will restart only if needed (relapse).

Treatment of vertigo

It will administer 10 mg daily (at night) in patients under 65 years and 5 mg daily in patients over 65 years. The treatment not will last longer than the time required to achieve control of symptoms, which usually occurs before two months.

However, if after a month of treatment for chronic vertigo or after 2 months for recurrent vertigo, no improvement is observed, it is considered that the patient does not respond to treatment and it should be discontinued.

If you think that the effect of the medicine is too strong or too weak, consult your doctor.

If you have any further questions on the use of this product, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

While you take flunarizine     

If you become pregnant, contact your doctor immediately.

If a doctor prescribes another medicine , tell you are taking flunarizine.

Check with your doctor regularly developments of disorder that motivates the use of flunarizine. Maybe there is some reason that prevented you properly receive the indicated doses and induce your doctor to erroneous conclusions about treatment.

Do not restart treatment with flunarizine at your own risk without first talking to your doctor, nor encourage its use by another person, even if have the same symptoms you have. Nor is it advisable to interrupt or reduce the dose without considering the opinion of your doctor.

If you feel unwell during treatment with flunarizine, immediately consult your doctor.

If you use more medicine than you should

Consult your doctor or pharmacist as soon as possible. In the case of overdose or accidental ingestion, consult the Poison Control Service of your country.

Due to its pharmacological properties, flunarizine may cause sedation and fatigue. There have been some cases of acute intoxication (more than 600 mg in one shot) and the observed symptoms were sedation, agitation, and tachycardia. In the case of acute poisoning, treatment consists in administering carbon adsorbent, induction of emesis or gastric lavage and supportive measures, if needed. No specific antidote is known.

If you forget a dose:

Do not take a double dose to make up for missed doses.

If you have any further questions on the use of this product, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

Side Effects of flunarizine     

Like all medicines, flunarizine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

The frequency of side effects is classified into:

Very common: affect 1 out of 1-10 patients
Common: affect 1 out of 10-100 patients
Uncommon: affect 1 out of 100-1.000 patients
Rare: affect 1 out of 1.000-10.000 patients
Very Rare: affect less than 1 in 10,000 patients
Incidence not known: Can not be established the true incidence from the available data

Common side effects:

Drowsiness and/or fatigue, generally transient and weight gain (and/or increased appetite).

During chronic treatment have been observed following severe side effects:

- Depression, which, in patients with prior history of depression may be at particular risk.
- Extrapyramidal symptoms (such as abnormal slowness of movement, rigidity, difficulty sitting, alterations of facial movements, tremor).

If appear any of these symptoms or think you may have it, consult your doctor or pharmacist.

If you notice any side effects not listed in this website or in the leaflet accompanying the package, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

If any of the side effects gets serious, tell your doctor or pharmacist.

List of brands containing flunarizine     

This page contains a list of brands of authorized pharmaceutical specialties of the active principle flunarizine in the countries listed below:

Australia] [ Brazil] [ Canada] [ France] [ Germany] [ India] [ Italy] [ Japan] [ Korea] [ Mexico] [ Puerto Rico] [ Spain] [ Turkey] [ United Kingdom] [ U.S.A]

Given the nature of the pharmaceutical market, some specialties may be unavailable, have been removed from the pharmaceutical market or have changed its name. So that, in no case can take decisions based on the information contained in the page. MEDIZZINE is not responsible for any damage arising from the information provided, which may be incomplete or outdated.

Warning:

With exceptions expressly indicated, these lists do not include active principle associations with other drugs or clinical use containers.

Australia:     

Information not available

Brazil:     

FLUNARIN 5 mg/ml, 30 ml oral drops
FLUNARIN 10 mg, 60 capsules
FLUVERT 10 mg, 30 tablets
SIBELIUM 10 mg, 30 tablets
VERTIGIUM 10 mg, 50 tablets
VERTIX 10 mg, 20 & 50 tablets
VERTIX 5 mg/ml, 30 ml oral drops
VERTIZAN 10 mg, 50 tablets

Canada:     

FLUNARIZINE AA PHARMA 5 mg, 60 & 100 capsules
NOVO-FLUNARIZINE 5 mg, capsules

France:     

SIBELIUM 10 mg, 30 tablets

Germany:     

FLUNARIZIN ACIS 5 mg, 20, 50 & 100 capsules
FLUNARIZIN ACIS 10 mg, 20, 50 & 100 capsules
FLUNARIZIN-CT 5 mg, 30, 50 & 100 capsules
FLUNARIZIN-CT 10 mg, 30, 50 & 100 capsules
FLUNAVERT 5 mg, 20, 50 & 100 capsules
FLUNAVERT 10 mg, 20, 50 & 100 capsules
NATIL-N 5 mg, 20, 50 & 100 capsules
NATIL-N 10 mg, 20, 50 & 100 capsules
SIBELIUM EMRA 5 mg, 20, 50 & 100 capsules
SIBELIUM KOHLPHARMA 5 mg, 50 & 100 capsules
SIBELIUM OPTI 5 mg, 50 & 100 capsules

India:     

ABIFLUX 10 mg, tablets
AMRIZIN 10 mg, tablets
CINZIN 5 mg, tablets
CINZIN 10 mg, tablets
CUFLORA 10 mg, tablets
DULONOR 5 mg, tablets
DULONOR 10 mg, tablets
ECNAXIN 10 mg, tablets
EFIGRAINE 5 mg, tablets
EFIGRAINE 10 mg, tablets
FINE 5 mg, tablets
FINE 10 mg, tablets
FLUBERY 10 mg, tablets
FLUDRIN 5 mg, tablets
FLUDRIN 10 mg, tablets
FLUGRAINE 5 mg, tablets
FLUGRAINE 10 mg, tablets
FLUNARIN 5 mg, tablets
FLUNARIN 10 mg, tablets
FLUNARIS 5 mg, tablets
FLUNARIS 10 mg, tablets
FLUNARIZ 10 mg, tablets
FLUNARSAC 10 mg, tablets
FLUNATRAC 5 mg, tablets
FLUNATRAC 10 mg, tablets
FLUNAX 10 mg, tablets
FLUNAXYL 5 mg, tablets
FLUNAXYL 10 mg, tablets
FLUNER 5 mg, tablets
FLUNER 10 mg, tablets
FLURIZ 10 mg, tablets
FLURON 10 mg, tablets
FLURY 5 mg, tablets
FLURY 10 mg, tablets
FLUTOM 10 mg, tablets
FLUVERT 5 mg, tablets
FLUVERT 10 mg, tablets
FLUZ 5 mg, tablets
FLUZ 10 mg, tablets
FLUZER 5 mg, tablets
FLUZER 10 mg, tablets
FZIMAX 5 mg, tablets
FZIMAX 10 mg, tablets
FZIN 5 mg, tablets
FZIN 10 mg, tablets
GRATON 5 mg, tablets
GRATON 10 mg, tablets
GRENATE 5 mg, tablets
GRENATE 10 mg, tablets
GRENIL-F 5 mg, tablets
GRENIL-F 10 mg, tablets
LEFLORA 10 mg, tablets
LIMAGRAIN 10 mg, tablets
LUNATRIC 5 mg, tablets
LUNATRIC 10 mg, tablets
MGR 5 mg, tablets
MGR 10 mg, tablets
MIGARID 5 mg, tablets
MIGARID 10 mg, tablets
MIGAZIN 5 mg, tablets
MIGAZIN 10 mg, tablets
MIGON 5 mg, tablets
MIGON 10 mg, tablets
MIGRECURE 5 mg, tablets
MIGRECURE 10 mg, tablets
MIGRID 5 mg, tablets
MIGRID 10 mg, tablets
NARIZ 5 mg, tablets
NARIZ 10 mg, tablets
NARIZINE 10 mg, tablets
NARZINE 5 mg, tablets
NARZINE 10 mg, tablets
NITROGRAIN 10 mg, tablets
NOMIGRAIN 5 mg, tablets
NOMIGRAIN 10 mg, tablets
NUBELIUM 10 mg, tablets
PROFIGRAN 5 mg, tablets
PROFIGRAN 10 mg, tablets
SIBELIUM 5 mg, tablets
SIBELIUM 10 mg, tablets
VERTOMIN 5 mg, tablets
VERTOMIN 10 mg, tablets
ZEROACH 5 mg, tablets
ZEROACH 10 mg, tablets
ZUFLORA 10 mg, tablets
ZYNAR 5 mg, tablets
ZYNAR 10 mg, tablets

Italy:     

FLUGERAL 5 mg, 50 capsules
FLUGERAL 10 mg, 50 capsules
FLUNAGEN 5 mg, 50 capsules
FLUNAGEN 10 mg, 50 tablets
FLUXARTEN 5 mg, 50 capsules
FLUXARTEN 10 mg, 50 capsules
POLIFARMA 5 mg, 50 capsules
POLIFARMA 10 mg, 50 capsules
ISSIUM 5 mg, 50 capsules
ISSIUM 10 mg, 50 capsules
SIBELIUM 5 mg, 50 tablets
SIBELIUM 10 mg, 50 tablets
VASCULENE 5 mg, 50 capsules

Japan:     

Information not available

Korea:     

FUNAZIN 5 mg, capsules
HEADACHE 5 mg, capsules
HEFEN 5 mg, capsules
NARIPEN 5 mg, capsules
NAZINA 5 mg, capsules
SALIUM 5 mg, capsules
SIBELIUM 5 mg, capsules

Mexico:     

FASOLAN 10 mg, 30 tablets
NAFLURYL-OR 5 mg, 20 & 40 tablets
NAFLURYL-OR 10 mg, 20 & 40 tablets
SIBELIUM 5 mg, 40 & 60 capsules

Spain:     

FLERUDIN 5 mg, 30 & 60 tablets
FLURPAX 5 mg, 30 & 60 capsules
SIBELIUM 5 mg, 30 & 60 tablets

Turkey:     

SIBELIUM 5 mg, 50 capsules

United Kingdom:     

Information not available

U.S.A. and Puerto Rico:     

Information not available