Pentosandosage

pentosan polysulfate 100 MG Oral Capsule [Elmiron]

Dosage and administration

The recommended dose of ELMIRON ® is 300 mg/day taken as one 100 mg capsule orally three times daily. The capsules should be taken with water at least 1 hour before meals or 2 hours after meals. Patients receiving ELMIRON ® should be reassessed after 3 months. If improvement has not occurred and if limiting adverse events are not present, ELMIRON ® may be continued for another 3 months. The clinical value and risks of continued treatment in patients whose pain has not improved by 6 months is not known.

Text above is quoted in full from the FDA-approved drug label published by openFDA, effective September 18, 2024. Matched to this product by RxNorm code. Cross-references to other sections of the full prescribing information have been removed, since they point to a document not shown here. Nothing else is changed: no sentence is shortened, reworded or summarised.

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