Don A 10 - Tablet - (10mg)

Domperidone Maleate is indicated in-

Dyspeptic symptom complex, often associated with delayed gastric emptying, gastroesophageal reflux and esophagitis:

Epigastric sense of fullness, feeling of abdominal distension, upper abdominal pain

Eructation, flatulence, early satiety

Nausea and vomiting

Heartburn with or without regurgitations of gastric contents in the mouth

Non-ulcer dyspepsia

Acute nausea and vomiting of the functional, organic, infectious, dietetic origin or induced by radiotherapy or drug therapy or induced in migraine.

Parkinson's disease: In dopamine-agonist induced nausea and vomiting.

Radiological studies: Speeding barium transit in follow-through radiological studies.

Domperidone is contraindicated to patients having known hypersensitivity to this drug and in the case of neonates. Domperidone should not be used whenever gastrointestinal stimulation might be dangerous i.e., gastrointestinal hemorrhage, mechanical obstruction or perforation. Also contraindicated in patients with prolactin releasing pituitary tumor (prolactinoma).

Side-effects are rare; exceptionally some transient intestinal cramps have been reported. Extrapyramidal phenomena are rare in young children and exceptional in adults: they reverse spontaneously and completely as soon as the treatment is stopped. As the pituitary gland is located outside the blood-brain barrier, domperidone may induce an increase in the plasma prolactin level. In rare case this hyperprolactinaemia may give rise to neuroendocrinological phenomena such as galactorrhoea and gynaecomastia. When the blood-brain barrier is immature (as in infants) or impaired, the possible occurrence of neurological side-effects cannot be totally excluded. Rare allergic reactions, such as rash and urticaria, have also been reported.