Azzalure

Read all of this leaflet carefully before you start using this medicine.

• Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
• If you have any further questions, ask your doctor.
• If any of the side effects become serious, or if you notice any side effects not listed in this leaflet, please tell your doctor or pharmacist.

In this leaflet:

• What Azzalure is and what it is used for
• Before you use Azzalure
• How to use Azzalure
• Possible side effects
• How to store Azzalure
• Further information

Do not have an Azzalure injection if:

• you are aware you are allergic (hypersensitive) to Clostridium botulinum toxin A or to any of the ingredients of Azzalure
• you have an infection at the proposed site of injection
• you have myasthenia gravis, Eaton Lambert syndrome or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Take special care and tell your doctor before you have the Azzalure injection if:

• you have any neuromuscular disorders
• you often have difficulty swallowing food (dysphagia)
• you find that you often have problems with food or drink getting into your airways causing you to cough or choke
• you have inflammation at the proposed site of injection
• the muscles at the proposed site of injection are weak
• you suffer from a bleeding disorder which means that you continue to bleed for longer than normal, such as haemophilia
• you have had surgery on your face, or are likely to undergo facial or other types of surgery soon
• you have already had other botulinum toxin injections
• you had no significant improvement of your lines after your last treatment with botulinum toxin

This information will help your doctor to make an informed decision about the risk and benefit of your treatment.

Special warnings:

Very rarely, the effect of botulinum toxin may result in muscle weakness away from the site of injection.

When botulinum toxins are used in higher doses to treat other conditions, antibody formation has been noted rarely in patients. The formation of neutralising antibodies may reduce the effectiveness of treatment.

If you are seeing a doctor for any reason, make sure that you tell them that you have been treated with Azzalure.

Taking other medicines

Azzalure may affect other medicines you are taking, or have recently taken, especially

• antibiotics for an infection (e.g. aminoglycosides such as gentamicin or amikacin), or
• other muscle relaxant drugs.

Always tell your doctor about all the medicines you are taking. This means medicines you have bought yourself as well as medicines on prescription from your doctor.

Using Azzalure with food and drink

You can have Azzalure injections either before or after eating or drinking.

Pregnancy and breast-feeding

You should not get Azzalure during pregnancy unless clearly necessary. Treatment with Azzalure is not recommended if you are breast-feeding. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant or if you are breast-feeding. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking any medicine.

Driving and using machines

You may experience temporary blurred vision or muscle weakness following treatment with Azzalure. If affected, do not drive or use machinery.

If you receive more Azzalure than you should

If you are given more Azzalure than you need then muscles other than the ones that were injected may begin to feel weak. This may not happen straightaway. If this happens, speak to your doctor immediately.

Tell your doctor if you notice any of the following side effects:

Very Common (affects more than 1 user in 10)

• Redness, swelling, irritation, rash, itching, tingling, pain, discomfort, stinging or bruising at the site of the injection
• Headache

Common (affects 1 to 10 users in 100)

• Tired eyes or dim vision, drooping of the upper eyelid, swelling of the eyelid, watering eyes, dry eye, twitching of muscles around the eye
• Facial paralysis

Uncommon (affects 1 to 10 users in 1,000)

• Disturbed, blurred or double vision
• Dizziness
• Itching, rash
• Allergic reactions, see above

Rare (affects 1 to 10 users in 10,000)

• Itchy and lumpy rash
• Eye movement disorder

Very rarely, side effects experienced in muscles other than the ones that were injected have been reported with botulinum toxin. These include excessive muscle weakness, difficulty swallowing, due to coughing and choking when swallowing (if food or liquid enters your airway as you attempt to swallow, respiratory problems can occur, such as lung infections). If this happens, speak to your doctor immediately.

Usually these side effects have occurred within the first week following injections and did not last long.

They were usually mild to moderate in severity.

What Azzalure contains

• The active substance is botulinum toxin type A*, 10 Speywood units/ 0.05ml. One vial contains 125 Speywood units.
• The other ingredients are human albumin 200g/L and lactose monohydrate.

* Clostridium botulinum (a bacteria) toxin A haemagglutin complex.

The Speywood units of Azzalure are specific to the product and are not interchangeable with other treatments containing botulinum toxin.

What Azzalure looks like and contents of the pack

Azzalure is a powder for solution for injection. It comes in a pack size of 1 or 2 vials.

Azzalure is a white powder.

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