Weight Loss - Oral

Xenical

120mg Capsules

  • Contains Orlistat
  • Blocks up to 30% of body fat
  • Clinical effective in weight loss
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Xenical Medical Information

Xenical is a medicine used to treat obesity. It works in your digestive system to block about one-third of the fat in the food you eat from being digested. Orlistat attaches to the enzymes in your digestive system (lipases) and blocks them from breaking down some of the fat you have eaten during your meal. The undigested fat cannot be absorbed and is eliminated by your body.

Xenical is indicated in the treatment of obesity in conjunction with a low calorie intake diet.

Xenical can cause harmless changes in your bowel habits, such as fatty or oily stools, due to the elimination of undigested fat in your faeces. The possibility of this happening may increase if Orlistat is taken with a diet high in fat.

The usual dose of Xenica is one 120 mg capsule taken with each of the three main meals per day. It can be taken immediately before, during a meal or up to one hour after a meal. The capsule should be swallowed with water.

Xenical should be taken with a well-balanced, calorie controlled diet that is rich in fruit and vegetables and contains an average of 30 % of the calories from fat. Your daily intake of fat, carbohydrate and protein should be distributed over three meals. This means you will usually take one capsule at breakfast time, one capsule at lunch time and one capsule at dinner time. To gain optimal benefit, avoid the intake of food containing fat between meals, such as biscuits, chocolate and savoury snacks. Xenical only works in the presence of dietary fat. Therefore, if you miss a main meal or if you have a meal containing no fat, Xenical need not be taken. 

Your treatment should be discontinued if after 12 weeks iyou have not lost at least 5 % of your body weight as measured at the start of treatment with Orlistat.

Xenical has been studied in long-term clinical studies of up to 4 years duration.

• Cholestasis

• Chronic malabsorption syndrome

Very common side effects (more than 1 user in 10)

• Headache

• Abdominal pain/discomfort

•urgent or increased need to open the bowels

•flatulence (wind) with discharge

• oily discharge, oily or fatty stools

• liquid stools

• low blood sugar levels (experienced by some people with type 2 diabetes).

Common side effects (1 to 10 users in 100)

• Rectal pain/discomfort

• soft stools

• incontinence (stools)

• bloating (experienced by some people with type 2 diabetes)

• tooth/gum disorder

• irregularity of menstrual cycle

• tiredness.

The following side effects have also been reported but their frequency cannot be estimated from the available data:

• Allergic reactions. The main symptoms are itching, rash, wheals (slightly elevated, itchy skin patches that are paler or redder than surrounding skin)

• severe difficulty in breathing

• nausea

• vomiting and feeling unwell

• Skin blistering (including blisters that burst)

• Diverticulitis

• Bleeding from the back passage (rectum)

• Increases in the levels of some liver enzymes may be found in blood tests

• Hepatitis (inflammation of the liver). Symptoms can include yellowing skin and eyes, itching, dark coloured urine

• stomach pain

• liver tenderness (indicated by pain under the front of the rib cage on your right hand side), sometimes with loss of appetite. Stop orlistat if such symptoms occur and tell your doctor

• Gallstones

• Pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)

• Oxalate nephropathy (build up of calcium oxalate which may lead to kidney stones).

Orlistat Capsules