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This combination drug product is intended as a treatment for tension headache.

 

Indications and Usage for Butalbital Acetaminophen Caffeine Capsules 50/325/40
Butalbital, Acetaminophen and Caffeine Capsules are indicated for the relief of the symptom complex of tension (or muscle contraction) headache.

Evidence supporting the efficacy and safety of this combination product in the treatment of multiple recurrent headaches is unavailable. Caution in this regard is required because butalbital is habit-forming and potentially abusable.


Contraindications
This product is contraindicated under the following conditions:

• Hypersensitivity or intolerance to any component of this product.
• Patients with porphyria.

Warnings
Butalbital is habit-forming and potentially abusable. Consequently, the extended use of this product is not recommended.
General
Butalbital, Acetaminophen and Caffeine Capsules should be prescribed with caution in certain special-risk patients, such as the elderly or debilitated, and those with severe impairment of renal or hepatic function, or acute abdominal conditions.


Information for Patients
This product may impair mental and/or physical abilities required for the performance of potentially hazardous tasks such as driving a car or operating machinery. Such tasks should be avoided while taking this product.

Alcohol and other CNS depressants may produce an additive CNS depression, when taken with this combination product, and should be avoided.

Butalbital may be habit-forming. Patients should take the drug only for as long as it is prescribed, in the amounts prescribed, and no more frequently than prescribed.

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