Celluvisc 1.0% w/v, Eye drops, solution

This medicine is available without prescription from pharmacies. Always use this medicine exactly as described in this leaflet or as your pharmacist or nurse has told you.

• Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
• Ask your pharmacist if you need more information or advice.
• If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. See section 4.
• You must talk to a doctor if you do not feel better or if you feel worse.

1. What Celluvisc is and what it is used for
2. What you need to know before you use Celluvisc
3. How to use Celluvisc
4. Possible side effects
5. How to store Celluvisc
6. Contents of the pack and other information

If you are allergic (hypersensitive) to carmellose sodium or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6).

• If you wear contact lenses, these should be removed before using Celluvisc. The lenses can be put back again 15 minutes after you have applied your drops.
• If irritation, pain, redness or changes in vision occur or if you feel your condition is getting worse, stop taking this medicine and consult your doctor or pharmacist.
• To avoid contamination or possible eye injury, do not let the open-end of the single-dose container touch your eye or anything else.

Please tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are using, have recently used or might use any other medicines, including medicines obtained without a prescription.

If you are using other eye drops, leave at least 15 minutes between putting in the other eye drops and Celluvisc.

Celluvisc can be used during pregnancy and breast-feeding.

Celluvisc may cause short-lasting blurring of vision typically lasting 1 – 15 minutes. If you do experience temporary blurring, do not drive or use machines until your sight is clear.

It will not cause you any harm. If you are worried, talk to your doctor or pharmacist.

Apply your next dose as required or at the normal time as directed by your pharmacist or doctor. Do not take a double dose to make up for forgotten individual doses.

The following adverse reactions or medically relevant adverse events have been reported since the drug has been marketed:

Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100 people)

• allergic reactions (including eye or eyelid swelling)
• blurring of vision
• increase in tear production (also known as tearing)
• sticky eye
• crusting of the eyelid and/or drug residue
• a feeling that something is in your eye
• redness of the eye/eyelid
• eyesight worsening
• eye injury to the surface of the eye due to the tip of the vial touching the eye during use

If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. You can also report side effects directly via the Yellow Card Scheme, Website: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard or search for MHRA Yellow Card in the Google Play or Apple App Store.

By reporting side effects you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.

• The active substance is carmellose sodium 10 mg/ml.
• The other ingredients are sodium chloride, sodium lactate, potassium chloride, calcium chloride dihydrate and purified water.

The ingredients used in Celluvisc were chosen to match what appears in tears produced naturally by the eye.

Celluvisc is an eye drop solution. It is presented as a clear, colourless to pale yellow solution in a small see-through (bubble-like) casing (known as a ‘single-dose container’). The single-dose container has a twist-off cap. Each single-dose container contains 0.4 ml of solution.

Each pack contains 10, 20, 30, 40, 60 or 90 foil-pouched single-dose containers.

Each foil pouch contains 10 single-dose containers.

Not all pack sizes may be marketed.