VERTIMED Tablet Ref.[50388] Active ingredients: Betahistine

Revision Year: 2018 

Product name and form

Vertimed 8mg tablets.

Vertimed 16mg tablets.

Vertimed 24mg tablets.

Pharmaceutical Form

Tablet.

Vertimed 8mg tablets: White, round, flat tablets with bevelled edge, breakline on one side, diameter 6.6 mm. The scoreline is only to facilitate breaking for ease of swallowing and not to divide into equal doses.

Vertimed 16mg tablets: White, round, flat tablets with bevelled edge, breakline on one side, diameter 9.0 mm. The tablet can be divided into equal doses.

Vertimed 24mg tablets: white, round, flat tablets with bevelled edge, breakline on one side, diamter 10.0 mm. The tablet can be divided into equal doses.

Qualitative and quantitative composition

Vertimed 8mg tablets: Each tablet contains 8 mg betahistine dihydrochloride.

Vertimed 16mg tablets: Each tablet contains 16 mg betahistine dihydrochloride.

Vertimed 24mg tablets: Each tablet contains 24 mg betahistine dihydrochloride.

Excipient with known effect: lactose monohydrate.

Vertimed 8mg tablets: Each tablet contains 50 mg lactose monohydrate.

Vertimed 16mg tablets: Each tablet contains 100 mg lactose monohydrate.

Vertimed 24mg tablets: Each tablet contains 150 mg lactose monohydrate.

For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.

Active Ingredient Description
Betahistine

Betahistine dihydrochloride is a histamine-like drug in which pharmacological activity can be attributed to a specific effects and/or more direct influences on recovery mechanisms the vestibular nuclei. It has weak agonist activity at histamine H1 receptors and moderate antagonist activity at H3 receptors. Betahistine may increase blood flow to the cochlear region as well as to the whole brain.

List of Excipients

Lactose monohydrate
Maize starch
Cellulose microcrystalline, E460
Citric acid, anhydrous, E330
Povidone K25, E1201
Crospovidone type A, E1202
Hydrogenated vegetable oil

Pack sizes and marketing

Blisters of PVC / PE / PVDC – aluminium.

Packs of 20, 24, 30, 48, 50, 60, 90, 96, and 100 tablets are available.

Not all pack sizes may be marketed

Drugs

Drug Countries
VERTIMED Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania

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