Attadex
Attadex is a medicine for ADHD that helps improve focus, concentration, and reduce impulsive behavior.
Form
tabletti
Strength
10 mg
Active Ingredient
Dexamphetamine sulphate
Manufacturer
Abboxia AB
How to Use
Dosage
The usual dose is 5–20 mg.
Method
Swallow tablets whole with liquid, preferably with or right after a meal. Take Attadex once or twice a day at the same time each day in relation to meals. The last dose of the day should not be taken too late to avoid sleep problems.
Important
The maximum recommended daily dose is 20 mg. In rare cases, 40 mg may be needed.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Less appetite, slower weight gain, and weight loss in children with long-term use.
- •Trouble sleeping.
- •Feeling nervous.
- •Uneven or fast heartbeat, feeling your heart beat strongly.
- •Stomach pain or cramps, feeling sick (nausea), throwing up (vomiting), dry mouth. These often happen at the start of treatment and can be lessened by taking the medicine with food.
- •Changes in blood pressure and heart rate (usually they go up).
- •Pain in joints.
- •Dizziness or feeling light-headed, twitching or uncontrolled movements, headache, being very active (hyperactivity), unusual behavior, anger, feeling jumpy, no appetite, worry, sadness, feeling annoyed.
RARE
- •Chest pain when active (angina pectoris).
- •Trouble focusing your eyes, blurry vision, bigger pupils.
- •Slower growth in children if taken for a long time.
- •Feeling tired.
- •Skin rash, itchy rash (hives).
- •Itchy red spots (erythema multiforme) or peeling skin (exfoliative dermatitis).
- •Swelling and/or blockage of blood vessels in the spinal cord and brain (cerebral vasculitis).
- •Fewer red blood cells, which can make skin look pale and cause weakness or shortness of breath; changes in other blood cell counts (like leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, thrombotic purpura).
- •Heart attack, heart stopping.
- •Tourette's syndrome, or worsening of existing tics.
- •Liver problems.
- •Muscle cramps, uncontrolled movements (choreoathetoid movements), bleeding inside the skull, severe muscle stiffness and fever (neuroleptic malignant syndrome).
- •Thoughts of suicide.
- •Rash that appears in the same spot every time the medicine is taken (fixed drug eruption).
- •Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy).
- •High body temperature.
- •Stroke.
- •Dependence, compulsive behavior, panic attacks, paranoia, confusion, feeling unwell, mood swings, feeling very happy, trouble thinking clearly, changes in sex drive, nightmares, restlessness.
- •Inflammation of parts of the large intestine when blood flow is poor (ischemic colitis).
- •Problem with body's acid-base balance (acidosis).
- •Trouble controlling movements (ataxia), dizziness, unusual or poor sense of taste, trouble concentrating, too strong reflexes, trembling. Numbness, tingling, and color changes (white to blue then red) in fingers and toes when cold (Raynaud's phenomenon).
- •Kidney damage.
- •Impotence.
- •Sweating, hair loss.
- •Diarrhea.
- •Circulatory failure.
Important Warnings
- Do not use if you or your child are allergic to dexamfetamine sulfate, other amphetamines, or any other ingredient in this medicine.
- Do not use if you or your child have an overactive thyroid, high eye pressure (glaucoma), or a tumor in the adrenal gland (pheochromocytoma).
- Do not use if you or your child have an eating disorder, like anorexia nervosa, where you don't feel hungry or want to eat.
- Do not use if you or your child have very high blood pressure, blocked blood vessels causing pain in arms or legs, or a history of severe heart problems (like heart attack, irregular heartbeat, chest pain, heart failure, or a heart defect from birth) or blood vessel problems in the brain (like stroke, aneurysm, or blood vessel inflammation).
- Do not use if you or your child have severe mental health conditions, such as psychopathic or borderline personality disorder, unusual thoughts, hallucinations, schizophrenia, or serious mood problems (like thoughts of suicide, severe depression, mania, or bipolar disorder).
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- Do not use if you or your child are taking or have taken a type of antidepressant called an MAOI (monoamine oxidase inhibitor) in the last 14 days.
- Do not use if you or your child have ever misused alcohol, prescription medicines, or illegal drugs.
- Do not use if you or your child have Tourette's syndrome or other involuntary movements or sounds (tics).
- Do not use if you or your child have porphyria (a rare blood disorder).