Please read this leaflet carefully before you start to take your medicine. It does not contain all the information about your medicine that you may need to know, so please ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions. The leaflet only applies to Distaclor MR tablets.

Your medicine is called Distaclor MR. Its active ingredient is cefaclor. It is an 'extended release' tablet. The oblong tablets are blue.

Each Distaclor MR 375 tablet has 375mg of cefaclor in it. The tablets also contain the inactive ingredients: mannitol, methylhydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, methacrylic acid copolymer, stearic acid, magnesium stearate and propylene glycol. The colour is E132.

Distaclor MR is made by Eli Lilly Industries Inc., Kilometer 12.7, 65th Infantry Road, Carolina, Puerto Rico and by Eli Lilly Italia SpA, Via Gramsci, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. The product licence is held by Dista Products Limited, Dextra Court, Chapel Hill, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 5SY

Distaclor MR treats bacterial infections including some sore throats, bronchitis and pneumonia, cystitis, skin infections such as boils, and infected wounds.

• Have you ever had an allergic reaction to antibiotics such as penicillin or cephalosporins or to any other types of medicine? (An allergic reaction may include rash, itching, swelling or breathing difficulties.)

• Are you pregnant or could you be?

• Are you breast-feeding?

• Do you have kidney trouble or are you on dialysis?

• Are you diabetic? Distaclor can interfere with some urine sugar tests.

• Are you taking any other medicines, especially warfarin?

If you are taking 'antacids' (a kind of indigestion remedy), please see the next section.

• Follow your doctor's instructions. Check the label for how many tablets to take and how often to take them.

• Throat infections, bronchitis, lower urinary tract infections or skin infections: take one 375mg tablet twice a day.

• Pneumonia: take two 375mg tablets twice a day.

• If you miss a dose, take one as soon as you can. If you have missed several doses, tell your doctor.

• Do not take more tablets than your doctor tells you to. If you ever take too many, go to the nearest hospital casualty department or tell your doctor immediately.

• The tablets may cause side-effects such as diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting or indigestion, or vaginal discharge or itching. If the diarrhoea is bloody or has mucus in it, tell your doctor.

• If you have a rash or have difficulty breathing, stop taking the tablets and tell your doctor at once.

• A few patients have had headaches, or felt dizzy or sleepy. Very occasionally, patients have had nervous conditions, or tests have shown temporary changes in blood counts or in the function of their liver or kidneys. It is not known whether Distaclor MR can cause these symptoms.

• If you have these or any other side-effects, tell your doctor. He or she has more information and will tell you what to do.

• Do not take the tablets after the 'Use Before' date.

• Keep your tablets at room temperature in a dry safe place and where children cannot see or reach them. Your tablets could harm them.

• If your doctor tells you to stop taking the tablets, please take them back to the pharmacist. Only keep the tablets if your doctor tells you to.

REMEMBER: This medicine is for you. Only a doctor can prescribe it for you. Never give it to others. It may harm them, even if their symptoms are the same as yours.

'Distaclor' is a registered trademark of Dista Products Limited.

Date this leaflet was written: October 1995

© Dista Products Limited, 1995