Plasmalyte Glucos
Plasmalyte Glucos provides your body with fluids, sugar for energy, and salts when you need to improve your fluid balance or when your blood is too acidic.
Form
infuusioneste, liuos
Strength
50 mg/ml
Active Ingredient
Glucose monohydrate
Manufacturer
Baxter Oy
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor or nurse will decide how much Plasmalyte Glucos you need, based on your age, weight, and condition.
Method
This medicine is usually given through a plastic tube with a needle into a vein. Your doctor might choose another way to give it.
Important
Your doctor or nurse will determine the maximum daily dose for you, based on your specific needs and how your body responds.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Fever
- •Pain, redness, swelling, or infection at the injection site
- •Feeling sick (nausea) or throwing up (vomiting)
- •Headache
- •Feeling weak or tired
- •High blood sugar
- •Swelling in your arms or legs (fluid overload)
- •Fast heartbeat or palpitations
- •Low blood pressure
- •Skin rash, redness, or hives
- •Muscle twitching or stiffness
- •Thirst
- •Drowsiness
- •Shortness of breath or wheezing
- •Chills or cold sweat
RARE
- •Severe allergic reaction, including swelling of the face, lips, or throat, and severe breathing problems or dizziness
- •Seizures
- •Confusion or coma (unconsciousness)
- •Very slow heartbeat, irregular heartbeat, or heart stops (cardiac arrest)
- •Paralysis (inability to move)
- •Brain swelling that can cause brain damage
- •Blood clot forming at the injection site
- •Blood becoming too acidic (acidosis) or too alkaline (alkalosis)
- •Very low or very high potassium or sodium levels in the blood
- •Fluid leaking outside the vein into surrounding tissues, which can cause damage and scarring
Important Warnings
- Do not use if you have too much chloride, sodium, or potassium in your blood.
- Do not use if you have severe kidney problems or a very slow heartbeat.
- Do not use if your blood is too alkaline or has too little calcium or stomach acid.
- Do not use if you take certain 'water pills' (diuretics) that make your body hold onto potassium, such as amiloride or spironolactone.
- Do not use if your diabetes is not controlled, if you have very high blood sugar, or if your body has trouble processing sugar (glucose intolerance).
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- Do not use if you are allergic to glucose, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride, sodium acetate, sodium gluconate, or any other ingredient in this medicine.
- Do not use if the solution looks cloudy, has particles, or if the package is damaged.
- Do not use a bag that has already been partially used.
- Do not give through the same needle used for a blood transfusion, as it can harm red blood cells.