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Suggest Treatment For Nausea And Dizziness

Posted on Mon, 6 Mar 2017

Question: hi what to do in overdose of targinact 10mg. the person took 4x10mg targinact but I managed to make them vomit 30 min later a few times, I made him drink lots of water and also a glass or two of milk and vomitted 10 12 times. it's now 5hrs since and now he feels nausea and little dizziness when he stands and also weak and shaky. he vomitted again a few times. please advise

Answered by Dr. Prof. Kunal Saha (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Gastric irritant

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.

Targinact is a gastric irritant and therefore can lead to nausea. You can benefit from giving him some over the counter liquid antacids or even prilosec (omeprazole). Give him plenty of water to drink. You would need to be patient. It would soon be fine.

Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Prof. Kunal Saha (17 minutes later)

even though he has taken 4 of the 10mg, is it not an overdose ?and this was not taken due to any illness or pain it was out of anger wanting to overdose himself but was stopped in the process,

Answered by Dr. Prof. Kunal Saha (2 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Within tolerance

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for writing back. It is an overdose but it is within the tolerance limit. Hopefully other than gastric irritation no other adverse effect would result. However, in case of any untoward presentation be sure to take him to the ER.

Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar