A.Vogel Echinaforce for kids 120 tablets

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

This medicine is used in children from 4 years of age, adolescents and adults.

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

Contraindications

Do not take Echinaforce:

• if you are allergic to echinacea, asteraceae or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6).
• 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 prevention: 3 tablets 2 times a day.
• For colds and febrile colds: 3 tablets 5 to 2 times a day.

Use in children from 4 years of age

• 3 tablet 5 to 1 times a day as directed by the doctor.

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 ingredient is: Dry residue of a liquid extract of fresh red coneflower herb and fresh red coneflower root.

1 tablet contains: 5.9 mg dry residue of a liquid extract of fresh, flowering herb of echinacea (Echinaceae purpureae herba, corresponds to approx. 100-200 mg fresh herb), ratio drug-extract agent 1:12, extracting agent ethanol 57.3 % m/m 0.3 mg dry residue of a liquid extract from fresh roots of echinacea (Echinaceae purpureae radix, corresponds to approx. 5.6-9.8 mg fresh root), ratio drugextracting agent 1:11, extracting agent ethanol 57.3 % m/m

The other ingredients are: sorbitol, betadex, silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate, orange flavor.