Diarrhoea can start quite suddenly but doesn’t usually last for many days. Diarrhoea is usually caused by a viral or bacterial infection, food poisoning or foreign travel.
Features and Benefits
- This product is a generic medicine with the same active ingredients as Imodium and Diocalm
- 2mg Loperamide capsules are for the relief of sudden diarrhoea (diarrhoea) and help limit trips to the toilet.
- Suitable for adults and children aged 12 years and over.
Loperamide is a medicine to treat diarrhoea (runny poo). It can help with short-term diarrhoea or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Loperamide is also used for recurring or longer lasting diarrhoea from bowel conditions such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and short bowel syndrome.
This is a generic medicine, brand may vary. Ingredients are provided as a guide.
What Loperamide Capsules contain:
Active ingredient:
Loperamide Hydrochloride 2mg
Other ingredients:
Lactose, Maize Starch, Talc, Magnesium Stearate, Gelatin, Quinoline Yellow (E104), Erythrosine
(E127), Patent Blue (E131) and Titanium Dioxide (E171).
Common side effects
Like all medicines, loperamide can cause side effects, but many people have no side effects or only minor ones.
These common side effects happen in more than 1 in 100 people.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist if these side effects bother you or do not go away:
- constipation (difficulty doing a poo)
- feeling dizzy
- feeling sick
- headaches
- farting (wind)
Serious side effects
It’s rare to have a serious side effect with loperamide.
Tell a doctor straight away if you:
- feel faint or less alert, or if you pass out (faint)
- start moving in a clumsy, uncoordinated way
Serious allergic reaction
In rare cases, it’s possible to have a serious allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) to loperamide.
This product is typically dispatched within 1-2 working days from date of order
Please note that we do not operate at the weekends. Orders placed after 2pm Friday will not get processed until the following Monday morning.
Standard Delivery
Our standard delivery charge is £2.90.
We use a tracked 48 Hour service for our standard delivery.
Next Day Delivery
Due to COVID-19 we are not currently offering Next Day Delivery as our couriers are not always adhering to the delivery timescales, we will introduce this again in the future.
Prescriptions
Private prescription medicines are sent by courier, tracked 24hr delivery, free of charge (all private prescription items have a minimum order value of £5.00). NHS prescription medicines are sent by courier, tracked 24hr delivery.
Normal delivery charges will apply for non-prescription items in the same basket.
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