Orlistat 60mg capsules are available over the counter as a pharmacy P medicine. Since its reclassification from prescription-only medicine status patients have an opportunity to try a drug treatment to aid weight loss without having to consult a doctor. This guide will help pharmacists identify the information they need to consider when supplying orlistat 60mg P. It provides information on how pharmacists can help with weight loss, including advising on diet and exercise, promoting a healthy lifestyle, highlighting the benefits of weight loss and offering diagnostic screening to patients, where appropriate.
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Orlistat blocks your body's absorption of some fat-soluble vitamins and beta carotene. Therefore, when you use orlistat you should take a daily multivitamin that contains vitamins A, D, E, K, and beta-carotene. Read the label to find a multivitamin product that contains these vitamins. Take the multivitamin once a day, 2 hours before or 2 hours after taking orlistat, or take the multivitamin at bedtime.
Ask your doctor or pharmacist any questions you might have about taking a multivitamin while you are taking orlistat. Take the missed dose as soon as you remember it unless it is more than 1 hour since you ate a main meal.
If it is longer than 1 hour since you ate a main meal, skip the missed dose and continue on your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. Orlistat may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems during your treatment with orlistat. Some people who took orlistat developed severe liver damage. There is not enough information to tell whether the liver damage was caused by orlistat.
Talk to your doctor about the risks of taking orlistat. Keep this medication in the container it came in, tightly closed, and out of reach of children. Store it at room temperature and away from excess heat, moisture not in the bathroom , and light. Unneeded medications should be disposed of in special ways to ensure that pets, children, and other people cannot consume them.
However, you should not flush this medication down the toilet. Instead, the best way to dispose of your medication is through a medicine take-back program. It is important to keep all medication out of sight and reach of children as many containers such as weekly pill minders and those for eye drops, creams, patches, and inhalers are not child-resistant and young children can open them easily. To protect young children from poisoning, always lock safety caps and immediately place the medication in a safe location — one that is up and away and out of their sight and reach.
In case of overdose, call the poison control helpline at If the victim has collapsed, had a seizure, has trouble breathing, or can't be awakened, immediately call emergency services at You should also follow a program of regular physical activity or exercise while you are taking orlistat. It is not recommended that you use Orlistat during pregnancy. As Orlistat is a prescription-only drug, we offer a quick, free online consultation to make sure you are suitable for the treatment before you buy Orlistat.
Orlistat works by preventing the fat from the food that you eat from being absorbed into your body. This fat eventually exits the body via your faeces. For Orlistat to work, it must be used in conjunction with other weight-loss tactics.
These include a regular exercise programme and a healthy diet plan. Orlistat capsules should be taken with a meal that contains 15g of fat or less. Meals containing more than 15g of fat are likely to produce unpleasant side effects and meals with no fat have nothing for Orlistat to bind to. This is to ensure that taking Orlistat is both safe and effective. If used together with additional weight loss tactics, Orlistat has been shown to be effective at aiding weight loss.
One study found that people who took Orlistat and kept to a low-calorie diet lost on average 1. Another study found that obese patients taking Orlistat for weight loss had lost on average This is in contrast to the 6. Before starting Orlistat, you should first have tried losing weight through a calorie-controlled diet and exercising regularly. You should also consider quitting smoking and reducing your alcohol intake before taking the medication.
After taking Orlistat for a few weeks, you can expect to see dramatic weight loss. The actual amount varies between individuals, depending on their diet and exercise regime. Orlistat starts working the first time you take it.
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