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Tolperisone Hydrochloride is a centrally acting muscle relaxant. It effectively reduces muscular hypertonicity, improves peripheral blood flow by vasodilatation and reduces pain. Lidocaine stabilizes the neuronal membrane by inhibiting the ionic fluxes required for the initiation and conduction of impulses, thereby effecting local anesthetic action.
Increased tone of skeletal muscles due to organic neurological disorders (e.g. injury of the pyramidal tract, multiple sclerosis, myelopathy, encephalomyelitis etc.), muscular hypertension, muscular spasm, muscular contracture, rigidity, spinal automatism and discopathy, obliterative vascular diseases (obliterative arteriosclerosis, diabetic angiopathy, obliterative thromboangitis, Raynaud's disease, diffuse scleroderma) and disorders due to injured innervation of the vessels (acrocyanosis, intermittent angioneurotic dysbasia). In individual cases, post-thrombotic venous and lymphatic circulation disorders, crural ulcer.
The usual dose is one ampoule twice daily by intramuscularly. Injection should be given slowly. Accordingly to age and symptom, the dosage may be changed.
Hypersensitivity to any component of the product, Myasthenia gravis, Nursing mother
Sometimes, muscular weakness, headache, nausea, vomiting and rarely hypersensitivity reactions may occur as side effects.
Overdose Effects
In the event of over dosage, supportive therapy may be substituted.
In case of children, the prescribed dose and duration of treatment should closely be observed.
Pregnancy & Lactation
Tolperisone hydrochloride should be used in pregnancy according to physician's advice. Tolperisone hydrochloride should not be used during breast feeding.