Boots Mild Vapour Rub 3 Months Plus or

Boots Children's 3 Months Plus Vapour Rub

Ointment

For head colds, stuffy nose, cough and chest colds.

For children over 3 months and adults

To be used on the chest and back particularly at bedtimes. Massage gently. Use sparingly on infants and young children. Apply a moderate amount on older children and adults.

Elderly

There is no need for dosage reduction.

Children under 3 months

Not recommended for children under 3 months of age.

For topical application.

Hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients.

For external use only.

Keep all medicines out of the reach of children.

Not recommended for children under 3 months.

No clinically significant drug interactions known.

The safety of vapour rub during pregnancy and lactation has not been established but its use during these periods is not considered to constitute a hazard.

No adverse effects known.

Occasional hypersensitivity and irritant skin reactions.

Overdosage may result in skin irritation.

Misuse:

Swallowing of the ointment might cause gastrointestinal symptoms like vomiting and diarrhoea. Treatment is symptomatic.

Following oral ingestion, symptoms of overdosage may include colic, dizziness, delirium, muscle twitching, epileptiform convulsions and depression of the central nervous system. Breathing may be difficult. There may also be haematuria and albuminuria.

Acute poisoning was observed after significant accidental consumption, with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and headache, vertigo, feeling hot/flushing, convulsions, respiratory depression and coma.

Patients with severe gastrointestinal or neurological symptoms of poisoning should be observed and treated symptomatically. Do not induce vomiting.

Convulsions may be controlled by the intravenous administration of diazepam 5-10 mg.

Eucalyptus oil, camphor, levomenthol are volatile substances and are thought to produce an irritant effect on the respiratory tract, probably via a nasal/pulmonary arc.

None stated.

Not applicable.

White soft paraffin

None stated.

36 months in amber glass jar.

20 months in polystyrene jar.

Amber glass jar - None.

Polystyrene jar - Do not store above 25°C.

Amber glass jar with either a tin plate cap with waxed aluminium faced pulpboard liner containing 45g or a thermoset plastic cap

or A polystyrene jar with an unlined polypropylene cap containing 25g or 45g.

None.

The Boots Company PLC

1 Thane Road West

Nottingham NG2 3AA

PL 00014/0562

31 May 1996

August 2010