Precautions and warnings

Spread your daily fat intake across three main meals. If you’re on long-term therapy, you may need to take fat-soluble vitamin supplements. Stop using if you haven’t lost at least 5% of your body weight after 12 weeks. Be cautious if you have a history of too much oxalate in your urine, kidney stones, diabetes, or are pregnant.

Drug Interactions

It may lower how much your body absorbs oral fat-soluble vitamins, amiodarone, and propafenone. It can also reduce the amount of ciclosporin in your blood and might change how warfarin works, so your INR should be checked. Additionally, it may increase the amount of pravastatin in your blood.

Contraindications

Chronic malabsorption syndrome. Cholestasis. Lactation

Mode of actions

Orlistat is a medicine that helps with weight loss by blocking certain enzymes (gastric and pancreatic lipase) in the stomach and pancreas. These enzymes normally break down fat from the food you eat. By blocking them, Orlistat prevents some of the fat from being absorbed by your body. However, it does not work by reducing your appetite.

Dosage & Administration

Adult: PO 120 mg 3 times/day with each main meal. (Should be taken with food. Take immediately before or during or up to 1 hr after each main meal. If a meal is missed or contains no fat, the dose may be omitted).

Pregnancy & Lactation

Although animal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect even sometimes unable to demonstrate the risk on the fetus and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women, but during pregnancy, this medicine can be used just when definitely required.

Discuss with your doctors and tell them feedback about this medicine.

There is no specific information about whether this medicine is passed on to the baby through breast milk. Discuss with your doctor before breastfeeding.

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