Olimel N7e
Olimel N7E is a medicine that gives you nutrients through a tube into a vein when you can't eat or drink enough on your own.
Form
infuusioneste, emulsio
Active Ingredient
Alanine
Manufacturer
Baxter Oy
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor or nurse will decide how much medicine you need and for how long, based on your age, weight, and health.
Method
This medicine is given through a tube inserted into a large vein in your chest. It should be at room temperature before use. One bag usually takes 12 to 24 hours to infuse.
Important
Do not exceed the maximum daily dose your doctor has set for you.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Fast heartbeat
- •Less appetite
- •High fat levels in the blood
- •Belly pain
- •Diarrhea
- •Feeling sick to your stomach
- •High blood pressure
RARE
- •Allergic reactions (like sweating, fever, chills, headache, rash, itching, hot flashes, or trouble breathing)
- •Medicine leaking out of the vein into the surrounding tissue (extravasation), causing pain, irritation, swelling, redness, warmth, skin damage, blisters, or inflammation at the site
- •Vomiting
- •Fat overload syndrome (problems clearing fats from your body), with symptoms like fever, pale skin, weakness, trouble breathing, increased risk of infection or bleeding, blood clotting problems, very high fat levels in blood, fat buildup in the liver, poor liver function, or coma
- •Abnormal liver test results
- •Problems with bile flow
- •Liver disease from intravenous nutrition
- •Yellow skin or eyes (jaundice)
- •Increased nitrogen in the blood
- •Increased liver enzyme levels
- •Small particles blocking blood vessels in the lungs, causing breathing trouble or lung blood clots
Important Warnings
- For premature babies, infants, and children under 2 years old.
- If you are allergic to eggs, soybeans, peanuts, or corn products.
- If your body has problems using amino acids.
- If you have very high fat levels in your blood.
- If your blood sugar is too high.
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- If you have too much of certain salts (like sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, or phosphate) in your blood.
- Giving this medicine too fast can be dangerous or even deadly.
- Stop the infusion right away if you get signs of an allergic reaction, like sweating, fever, chills, headache, rash, or trouble breathing.
- Trouble breathing could mean small bits have blocked blood vessels in your lungs. Tell your doctor or nurse if you have trouble breathing.
- Do not mix this medicine with the antibiotic Ceftriaxone or give it at the same time as blood through the same tube.
- If you are very sick and malnourished, this treatment will be started slowly under close watch by your doctor.
- Any problems with your body's fluids, salts, or metabolism must be fixed before starting this medicine.
- Liver problems can happen. Tell your doctor if you feel sick to your stomach, throw up, have belly pain, or your skin or eyes turn yellow.
- Tell your doctor if you have severe kidney or liver problems, blood clotting issues, adrenal gland problems, heart failure, lung disease, too much fluid in your body, not enough fluid, uncontrolled high blood sugar, heart attack or shock, severe blood acidity, a widespread infection, or a coma.
- If your body can't clear fats from this medicine well, you might get 'fat overload syndrome'.
- If you feel pain, burning, or swelling where the medicine goes in, or if it leaks, tell your doctor or nurse right away.
- If your blood sugar gets too high, your doctor will change how fast the medicine is given or give you insulin.
- If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning a baby, ask your doctor for advice before getting this medicine.