Description
This medicine is sold under the discretion of a Well Pharmacist.
You will be required to answer a few short questions to ensure this medicine is suitable for you.
Midrid Capsules are designed for effective relief from migraines and severe headaches. Combining isometheptene, dichloralphenazone, and acetaminophen, they provide fast-acting pain relief while helping to reduce headache intensity and associated symptoms. Easy to take, Midrid Capsules target both the pain and vascular components of migraines, restoring comfort and functionality. Ideal for on-the-go use, they offer a trusted solution for managing headache episodes. Always use as directed by your healthcare provider for safe and effective results.
How to Use
For adults only:
- If you have any signs that you are going to get a migraine, take the initial dose of Midrid Capsules as soon as you get these warning signs. You may be able to prevent it getting to the
- headache stage.
- Swallow two capsules of Midrid Capsules with a drink of water as soon as you know you are getting a migraine. If you still have your migraine an hour later, take another capsule.
- Continue taking a capsule every hour until your migraine has gone, up to a maximum of five capsules in 12 hours.
- If you still have a migraine 12 hours after you started taking Midrid Capsules, you can take one more course of treatment. That is, two capsules to start with followed by one capsule every hour, if needed, up to a maximum of five capsules.
- After this, you should ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
You must not take more than five capsules in 12 hours.
Warnings
- Do not take Midrid Capsules if you are pregnant, might be pregnant, are breastfeeding or in the first few weeks after childbirth.
- You should avoid alcohol on the same day that you take Midrid Capsules.
- No information available regarding the effect of this medication on your ability to drive or use machinery. You must not drive if you feel tired or drowsy.
- Midrid Capsules contain paracetamol. Do not take any other medicine containing paracetamol on the same day that you take Midrid Capsules.
Do not take Midrid Capsules if you have or have had:
- An allergic reaction to paracetamol, isometheptene mucate or any of the ingredients.
- Severe problems with your kidneys, liver or heart severe high blood pressure.
- Glaucoma (increased pressure inside the eye).
- Medicines for depression, known as Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs) within the last 14 days.
- Porphyria - genetic blood disorder.
Take special care with Midrid Capsules and tell your doctor if you suffer with:
- Diabetes.
- Cardiovascular diseases.
- An overactive thyroid.
- Spinal cord injury.
- Liver damage caused by alcoholism.
- An eating disorder.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Midrid Capsules if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines, including medicines obtained without a prescription, particularly:
- Medicines used to thin the blood such as warfarin.
- Medicines to treat high blood pressure.
- Cardiac glycosides such as digoxin used to treat heart failure and irregular heart beats or heart rhythm.
- Quinidine which may be used to treat heart or blood problems.
- Colestyramine to treat hyperlipidaemia (high levels of fats in the blood, for example, cholesterol).
- Medicines to treat the symptoms of depression such as tricyclic antidepressants and monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
- Metoclopramide or domperidone to treat nausea and vomiting.
- Bromocriptine to treat Parkinson's disease.
- Chloramphenicol which is used to treat bacterial infections.
- Long term use of carbamazepine, phenobarbitone, phenytoin and primidone (for epilepsy), rifampicin (an antibiotic), St John's Wort (for depression) or other medicines that affect liver enzymes. These medicines may increase the chance of liver damage in case of paracetamol overdose.
- Another migraine medicine.
See patient information leaflet for more information
Ingredients
- Active Ingredients: Paracetamol 325mg and Isometheptene Mucate 65mg.
- Other Ingredients: Microcrystalline cellulose, talc and colloidal silicon dioxide. The capsule shell contains gelatin, water, titanium dioxide (E171), erythrosine (E127), quinoline yellow (E104), indigotine (E132) and a very small amount of printing ink.
