The UK’s Medicines and
Healthcare Products Regulatory
Agency (MHRA) has said
domperidone should not be used
by people with serious underlying
heart conditions.
The organisation advised the
treatment should only be used for
nausea relief at the lowest possible
dose, with adults taking no more
than three 10mg tablets a day.
This followed an EMA review of
the drug, which found that people
who took it might have a “small
increased risk of potentially life
threatening effects on the heart”,
the MHRA said.
The Therapeutic Goods
Administration (TGA) was reviewing
domperidone (Motilium) and
cardiac events, and the MHRA
advice would be considered in this
review, a spokesperson for the
Department of Health said.
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