Hyoscine hydrobromide is taken to prevent travel sickness (motion sickness).
It can also be used to reduce the amount of saliva in your mouth. This can help with symptoms if you’re having palliative care or end of life care.
Hyoscine hydrobromide comes as patches and tablets that you suck, chew or swallow. It can also given by injection, but this is usually only done in hospital.
You can buy the travel sickness tablets and patches at pharmacies.
Hyoscine hydrobromide patches and tablets for reducing excess saliva are available on prescription only.
Kwells Travel Sickness Tablets contain the following ingredients:
Kwells contain hyoscine hydrobromide 300 microgram per tablet. Also contains:saccharin sodium (E954) and mannitol (E421)
Side effects
Like all medicines, Kwells tablets can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
Some people have experienced blurred vision, dilated pupils, dry mouth, dizziness and drowsiness. You may also experience an increased body temperature due to decreased sweating.
Less frequently, there have reports of restlessness, hallucinations and confusion.
Precautions to consider when using Kwells Travel Sickness:
- Do not take Kwells if you have glaucoma, are taking drugs such as tranquillisers or antidepressants or are allergic to any of the ingredients in Kwells.
- Do not take Kwells if you are pregnant.
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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