Product Details
- Catafenac 50Mg is a diclofenac potassium-based oral medicine used to relieve mild to moderate pain and reduce inflammation.
- It is commonly used for painful conditions such as muscle aches, backache, dental pain, menstrual cramps, sports injuries, and arthritis-related pain.
- As a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), it works by inhibiting prostaglandin synthesis to provide analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic effects.
Key Features:
- Active Ingredient: Contains diclofenac potassium, an NSAID that helps reduce pain, inflammation, and fever by inhibiting cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes and prostaglandin production.
- Pain Management: Indicated for a range of painful conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, lower backache, migraine headaches, periarthritis, tenosynovitis, tendinitis, bursitis, strains, dislocations, and acute gout.
- Anti-Inflammatory Effect: Helps decrease swelling, edema, and joint stiffness associated with inflammatory musculoskeletal and arthritic disorders.
- Dosage Form: Supplied as an oral solid dosage (tablet or sachet-based formulation) intended to be swallowed whole with water as directed by a healthcare professional.
- Administration Guidance: Recommended to be taken with meals, milk, or an antacid to minimize stomach discomfort and gastrointestinal irritation.
- Safety Monitoring: Use with caution in patients with kidney, liver, heart, or gastrointestinal disease, with possible need for dose adjustment and periodic lab monitoring in long-term or elderly patients.
- Side Effect Profile: May cause gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation, flatulence) and central nervous system effects (headache, sleepiness, dizziness) as reported for diclofenac potassium.
- Professional Use: Should be used under medical supervision, especially in pregnancy, lactation, cardiovascular disease, or when combined with other medications due to potential interactions and contraindications.
