Hay Fever

Telfast

Tablets

  • Fast acting
  • Effects last up to 24 hours
  • Once daily dosing 
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£19.99

Telfast Medical Information

Telfast is used to relieve the symptoms that occur with hay fever (seasonal allergic rhinitis) such as sneezing, itchy, runny or blocked nose and itchy, red and watery eyes.

Telfast is unlikely to affect your ability to drive or operate machinery. However, you should check that these tablets do not make you feel sleepy or dizzy before driving or operating machinery.

The recommended dose is one tablet daily.

Take your tablet with water before a meal.

This medicine starts to relieve your symptoms within 1 hour and lasts for 24 hours.

Indigestion remedies containing aluminium and magnesium may affect the action of fexofenadine, by lowering the amount of medicinal product absorbed. It is recommended that you leave about 2 hours between the time you take fexofenadine and your indigestion remedy

• If you are allergic to fexofenadine or any of the other ingredients of this medicine

Tell your doctor immediately and stop taking Telfast if you experience

• swelling of the face, lips, tongue or throat and difficulty breathing, as these may be signs of a serious allergic reaction.

The following undesirable effects have been reported in clinical trials, with an incidence similar to those observed in patients who did not receive the drug (placebo).

Common side effects (up to 1 in 10 people):

• headache

• drowsiness

• feeling sick (nausea)

• dizziness

Uncommon side effects (up to 1 in 100 people):

• tiredness/sleepiness

Additional side effects (frequency not known: cannot be estimated from the available data) which may occur are:

• difficulty sleeping (insomnia)

• sleeping disorders

• blurred vision

• bad dreams

• nervousness

• fast or irregular heart beat

• diarrhoea

• skin rash and itching

• hives

• serious allergic reactions which can cause swelling of the face, lips, tongue or throat, flushing, chest tightness, and difficulty breathing.

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