A.Vogel Echinaforce Drops

Echinaforce drops are used to strengthen the immune system's defenses (immune stimulation), as a supportive treatment and to prevent recurring (recurrent) infections such as colds with cough, catarrh, watery eyes, runny nose, sore throat, headaches and muscle aches.

If you do not feel better or even worse after 14 days, contact your doctor.

Contraindications

Do not take Echinaforce drops,

• if you are allergic to echinacea or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6).
• in case of alcoholism
• of children under 4 years of age.

Interactions

Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines. There are no known interactions.

Pregnancy and lactation

If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you think you may be pregnant or intend to become pregnant, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine. In the absence of sufficient data, it is not recommended to use it during pregnancy and lactation.

Application

Always take this medicine exactly as described in this leaflet or exactly as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you're not sure.

Adults and adolescents from 12 years of age

• For prophylaxis: 3 drops 20 times a day.
• For colds and febrile colds: 3 – 5 drops 20 to 25 times a day.

Use in children

• Children from 4 years: 3 to 5 times 10 drops according to the doctor's instructions.

Normally, an uninterrupted intake should not exceed 2 months.

Side effects

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

The following adverse reactions have been reported very rarely (affects less than 1 person in 10,000): hypersensitivity reactions with the symptoms of rashes, itching, oedema, shortness of breath and drop in blood pressure.

Composition

The active ingredients are: Extracts of red coneflower

1 g contains: 0.95 g tincture of red coneflower (extract ratio 1:12) and 0.05 g tincture of echinacea root (extract ratio 1:11). The extractant is ethanol 57.3% g/g (65% vol.). 1 ml (= 905 mg) corresponds to 28 drops and contains the active ingredients of 240-440 mg of fresh coneflower and 12-23 mg of fresh coneflower root.

The other ingredients are: ethanol and water as extractants