This medicine is a infusion solution, which will be given to you as a venous infusion (drip) by your doctor.
It will be given to you for the correction of extracellular fluid depletion and calorie supply:
• if you are dehydrated and lose water (hypertonic dehydration)
You are given this medicine to provide you partial with carbohydrates if you are unable to eat and drink normally,
especially if your energy needs are high
or if you need restriction of fluid intake.
This solution may also be used to dissolve or dilute medicines that are to be given to you by a venous infusion (drip)

if you are allergic to sodium chloride or glucose.
• if you have excessively high body fluid level (hyperhydration)
• if you have fluid and sodium deficit (hypotonic dehydration)
• Head trauma (first 24 hours)
• if you have abnormally high blood sugar level that only responds to high insulin doses or intolerance to glucose
Warnings and precautions
This medicine must not be used to treat fluid deficits without adequate administration of salts, since this may
markedly reduce the salt concentration
in your blood. A lack of salts can lead to problems with your heart and damage your brain.
Special care should be taken if you have abnormally low level of sodium or potassium in the blood. Then an
adequate supply of salts (in particular potassium
and sodium) will be ensured.
In diabetic patients, the amount of infused glucose has to be taken into account and insulin requirements may
be modified.
You should not normally receive this medicine if you suffer or have recently suffered from stroke except your
doctor considers it essential for your recovery.
Your levels of blood sugar, electrolytes (especially potassium) and acid-base and water balance will be checked
to make sure that these are correct before and during infusion.
After major operations or severe injuries (post-traumatic and post-operative conditions or in the presence of
tissue oxygen deficiency, high blood acidity or organ failure) you may not be able to metabolise glucose properly
(impaired glucose tolerance). Then your blood sugar level will be regularly monitored.
Please note:
If this solution is used to dilute or dissolve medicines that are to be given to you by a venous drip, your doctor
will take into account the safety information of the additive.
Other medicines and this Product
Tell your doctor if you are using, have recently used or might use any other medicines.
Your doctor will adjust your dosage if you receive cortisone. Cortisone may cause an accumulation of sodium
and fluid in your body.
Pregnancy and, breast-feeding and fertility
If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor
for advice before taking this medicine.
Pregnancy
Your doctor will decide carefully whether or not you should receive this solution if you are pregnant.
Thus special care will be taken if you have a specific disorder that may occur during pregnancy, called
eclampsia, with the following symptoms:
High blood pressure, cramps, swelling.
Blood sugar levels will be checked regularly.
Breast-feeding
This medicine can be given while you are breast feeding.
Driving and using machines
This medicine no influence on the ability to drive and use machines.

Dosage
Adults
The amount of the medicine that you will be given will be determined by your doctor and will depend on your age,
weight, clinical and biological
(acid-base-balance) condition and concomitant therapy. Thus your individual requirements of fluid, electrolytes
and energy will be taken
into account.
Usually, flow rate: 3 ml/kg from body weight / hour, i.e. 70 drops / minute / 70 kg BW.
Maximum Dosage: 1500 ml/70 kg BW / day.
Elderly patients
Basically the same dosage as for adults applies. But your doctor will take caution if you are suffering from other
diseases often seen with advanced age.
Other special patient groups
If you have an impaired glucose tolerance (e.g. after surgery, severe injury, organ failure, tissue oxygen
deficiency etc.) the dosage should be adjusted to
Keep the blood glucose level close to normal values.
In those cases your blood glucose level will be monitored while you receive this solution.
Use in children and adolescents
Children will receive a dosage dependent upon their age, weight and clinical and biological (acid-base-balance)
condition and concomitant therapy.
Thus the individual daily requirements of fluid and glucose of your child will be taken into account.
If you received more of this medicine than you should
It is unlikely that this occurs because your doctor will determine your daily doses.
Symptoms
An overdose may lead to excess fluid in the body (hyperhydration), electrolyte imbalances (especially hypokalaemia
and hyponatraemia), acid-base imbalances, and high blood sugar (hyperglycaemia).
Clinical symptoms of water intoxication may also occur, such as nausea, vomiting, spasms.
Treatment
The therapy to normalise your condition will be determined by your doctor.
It may include stopping of the infusion, supervision of blood salt level and administration of suitable medicines
to treat the symptoms observed
(e.g. diuretics, insulin). In extreme situations you may also need dialysis.
If you have any further questions on the use of this product, ask your doctor or pharmacist

Like all medicines, this Product can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
If the product is used as directed, no side effects are to be expected.
Yet if you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet.

Keep this medicine out of the reach and sight of children.
Do not use after the expiry date which is stated on the label.
store below 30°C.
This medicinal product does not require any special storage conditions.
Only to be used if solution is clear and colourless up to faintly straw coloured, the container & its closure are
undamaged and the solution is free from visible particles.
This medicine is for single use only. After use discard container and any unused medicine.