Bilex

Generic Name

Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B₁) + Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B₆) + Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B₁₂)

What is this medicine used for?

Treatment of Vit. B deficiencies especially in restrictive diet or illnesses.

For nutritional support in painful, neurological manifestations of neuritis and neuropathy, polyneuritis, lumbago, ischialgia, cervical and shoulder-arm syndrome.  Nueropathies associated with diabetes, cardiac disorders, drug-induced tuberculosis, leprosy and pregnancy.  Alcoholic neuropathy due to INH or phenothiazine intoxication, hyperemesis gravidarum.  For the prevention and treatment of Vit. B_1, B₆ and B₁₂ deficiencies.

How much and how often should you use this medicine?

For adults and children:

• Therapeutic: 2-4 tablets / day
• Prophylaxis: 1-2 tablets / day
• Or as prescribed by the physician.

Care that should be taken when taking this Medicine

Administration of doses greater than 10 mcg of Cyanocobalamin daily may produce a hematological response in patients with folate deficiency. Indiscriminate use may mask the precise diagnosis.

Undesirable effects

Long-term administration of large doses of Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B₆) is associated with the development of severe peripheral neuropathies.

Medicine or food that should be avoided

Absorption of Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B₁₂) from the gastrointestinal tract may be reduced by neomycin, aminosalicylic acid, histamine H2-receptor antagonists, and colchicine. Oral therapy with Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B₆) is of proven benefit in correcting the sideroblastic anemias associated with the anti-tuberculosis drugs such as Isoniazid and Pyrazinamide which act as Vitamin B₆ antagonists.  

Packaging / Presentation

500 mg / 250 mg / 1 mg tablet – blister pack x 10’s (box of 50’s)