Hyoscine Butylbromide Oral: Dosing and Precautions
Hyoscine butylbromide guidance for gastrointestinal and genitourinary tract spasms, with anticholinergic safety limits.
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November 2024
Guide category
Oral drugs
Safety boundary
Prescription medicine information for clinician-guided use.
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Therapeutic action
Antispasmodic.
Indications
Spasms of the gastrointestinal tract and genitourinary tract.
Forms and strengths
- 10 mg tablet.
Dose
Do not exceed recommended doses, especially in children and older patients because of the risk of severe anticholinergic effects.
- Adult: 10 to 20 mg, to be repeated up to 3 or 4 times daily if necessary.
Duration
According to clinical response; no prolonged treatment.
Contra-indications, adverse effects, precautions
- Do not administer to patients with urethro-prostatic disorders, cardiac disorders, or closed-angle glaucoma.
- May cause urinary retention, dryness of the mouth, constipation, blurred vision, and tachycardia.
- Administer with caution and under close supervision to patients taking other anticholinergic drugs.
- Administer with caution to patients with fever because thermoregulation may be affected.
- Pregnancy: no contra-indication; no prolonged treatment.
- Breast-feeding: no contra-indication; no prolonged treatment.
Source
MSF Essential drugs practical guidelines (January 2026)
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