WELLVONE SUSPENSION

What you need to know before you take Wellvone
Don’t take Wellvone
• If you’re allergic to atovaquone or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in Section 6).

Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Wellvone.
Take special care with Wellvone
Your doctor needs to know before you take Wellvone:
• if you have kidney or liver disease.
• if you have diarrhoea, particularly when you start your treatment. Diarrhoea reduces
the amount of Wellvone your body absorbs, so the treatment may not be effective.
• if you are over 65 years of age.

Tell your doctor if any of these applies to you. Your doctor may decide that
Wellvone isn’t suitable for you, or that you need extra check-ups while you’re taking it.

Pregnancy, breast-feeding and fertility
• If you are pregnant, do not take Wellvone unless your doctor recommends it. If you become pregnant while you are taking Wellvone, ask your doctor for advice about whether you should continue the treatment. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice
before taking this medicine while pregnant.
• Do not breast-feed while taking Wellvone. It is not known whether Wellvone passes into breast milk; if it does it may harm your baby.
Other medicines and Wellvone
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you’re taking, have recently taken any other medicines, including any herbal medicines or other medicines you’ve bought without a prescription.
Some medicines can reduce the effectiveness of Wellvone, or Wellvone itself can change
the effect of other medicines taken at the same time. These include:
• the antibiotics rifampicin and rifabutin
• the antibiotic tetracycline
• metoclopramide used to treat nausea and vomiting
• indinavir, zidovudine or didanosine, used to treat HIV
• efavirenz or certain highly active protease-inhibitors used to treat HIV
• etoposide used to treat cancer.

Tell your doctor if you are taking any of these. Your doctor may decide that Wellvone isn’t suitable for you, or that you need extra check-ups while you’re taking it.
Remember to tell your doctor if you start taking any other medicine while you’re
taking Wellvone.
Wellvone with food and drink
Always take Wellvone with food – preferably foods that are high in fat. This will increase the amount of Wellvone that your body can absorb, and make your treatment more effective.
Ask your doctor for advice about which foods are suitable.
If you have difficulty in taking Wellvone with food, talk to your doctor about alternative treatments.
Driving and using machines

Your ability to drive or use machinery is not expected to be affected while you’re taking Wellvone.
Wellvone contains benzyl alcohol
This medicine contains 50.66 mg benzyl alcohol in each 5 ml.
Benzyl alcohol may cause allergic reactions.
Benzyl alcohol has been linked with the risk of severe side effects including breathing problems (called “gasping syndrome”) in young children.
Do not give to your newborn baby (up to 4 weeks old), unless recommended by your doctor.
Do not use for more than a week in young children (less than 3 years old), unless advised by your doctor or pharmacist.
Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice if you are pregnant or breast‑feeding or if you have a liver or kidney disease. This is because large amounts of benzyl alcohol can build-up in your body and may cause side effects (called “metabolic acidosis”).