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MOVIPREP is a lemon flavoured powder used to empty your bowels and keep them clean prior to surgery or examination. The powder works by emptying the contents of your bowels, so you should expect to have watery bowel movements.

There are two large sachets (Sachet A) and two small sachets (Sachet B). You need all these for one treatment.

Ingredients:

Sachet A contains these active substances:

• Macrogol 3350 - 100 g
• Sodium sulphate anhydrous - 7.5 g
• Sodium chloride - 2.691 g
• Potassium chloride - 1.015 g

Sachet B contains these active substances:

• Ascorbic acid 4.7 g
• Sodium ascorbate 5.9 g

The concentration of electrolyte ions when both sachets are made up to 1 litre of solution is as follows:

• Sodium 181.6 mmol/L (of which no more than 56.2 mmol is absorbable)
• Sulfate 52.8 mmol/L
• Chloride 59.8 mmol/L
• Potassium 14.2 mmol/L
• Ascorbate 29.8 mmol/L

Usage Directions:

Do not take Moviprep without consulting your doctor or pharmacist. Your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist may tell you when to take this mixture.

This pack contains 2 clear bags, each containing two sachet pairs: sachet A and Sachet B.

Each pair of sachets (A and B) is to be dissolved in one litre of water. This pack is therefore enough to make up two litres of MOVIPREP solution.

Either divided as 1 litre of MOVIPREP in the evening before and 1 litre in the early morning of the day of the examination,

or 2 litres in the evening before the examination,

or 2 litres early in the morning of an examination booked later in the same day. 

Important: Do not take any solid food from when you start to take MOVIPREP until after the examination.

• Open one clear bag and remove Sachets A and B
• Add the contents of BOTH sachet A and B to a 1 litre container
• Pour 1 litre of water into the container and stir until all the powder has dissolved and the MOVIPREP solution is clear or slightly hazy. This may take up to 5 minutes.

Drink the first litre of the MOVIPREP solution over one to two hours. Try to drink a glassful every 10-15 minutes.

When you are ready, make up and drink the second litre of MOVIPREP solution made up with the contents of the Sachets A and B from the remaining bag.

During the course of this treatment, drink a further one litre of clear liquid to prevent you from feeling very thirsty and becoming dehydrated. Clear liquids include: Water, clear soup, tea or coffee (without milk or non-dairy creamer), all of the following liquids which are not coloured red or purple: fruit juices without pulp, carbonated or non carbonated soft drinks, fruit flavoured cordials Note: patients should not drink anything coloured red or purple.

Storage:

Keep MOVIPREP sachets at room temperature (below 25ºC), stored in their original packaging, and do not use after the expiry date on the label.

After you have dissolved MOVIPREP in the water, the solution may be stored (keeping covered) at room temperature (below 25ºC), or put it in the fridge (2-8ºC). Do not freeze the solution and do not keep it for more than 24 hours.

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