Active Ingredient: Modafinil
Modafinil is indicated in adults for the treatment of excessive sleepiness associated with narcolepsy with or without cataplexy.
Excessive sleepiness is defined as difficulty maintaining wakefulness and an increased likelihood of falling asleep in inappropriate situations.
For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:
Oral
200 - 400 mg
From 200 To 400 mg once every day
Patient monitoring and clinical assessment of the need for treatment should be performed on a periodic basis.
The recommended starting daily dose is 200 mg. The total daily dose may be taken as a single dose in the morning or as two doses, one in the morning and one at noon, according to physician assessment of the patient and the patient’s response.
Doses of up to 400 mg in one or two divided doses can be used in patients with insufficient response to the initial 200 mg modafinil dose.
Physicians prescribing modafinil for an extended time should periodically re-evaluate the long-term use for the individual patients as the long-term efficacy of modafinil has not been evaluated (>9 weeks).
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