A/fish oil

Overdose

The following amounts have been found to be toxic orally. Toxicity manifestations depend on the age, dosage, size, and duration of administration.

Acute toxicity - single dose (25,000 Units/kg body weight)

Infant: 350,000 Units

Adult: Over 2 million Units

Chronic toxicity (4,000 Units/kg body weight for 6 to 15 months)

Infants 3 to 6 months old: 18,500 Units (water dispersed)/day for 1 to 3 months.

Adult: 1 million Units daily for three days; 50,000 Units daily for longer than 18 months; 500,000 Units daily for two months.

Hypervitaminosis A Syndrome
  1. General manifestations:
    Fatigue, malaise, lethargy, abdominal discomfort, anorexia, and vomiting.
  2. Specific manifestations:
    1. Skeletal: hepatotoxicity, hard tender cortical thickening over the radius and tibia, migratory arthralgia, slow growth, and premature closure of the epiphysis leading to arrested bone growth in children.
    2. Central Nervous System: irritability, headache, and increased intracranial pressure as manifested by bulging fontanels, papilledema, and exophthal-mos.
    3. Dermatologic: fissures of the lips, drying and cracking of the skin, alopecia, scaling, massive desquamation, and increased pigmentation.
    4. Systemic: hypomenorrhea, hepatosplenomegaly, hepatotoxicity, jaundice, leukopenia, vitamin A plasma level over 1,200 Units/100 mL.

The treatment of hypervitaminosis A consists of immediate withdrawal of the vitamin along with symptomatic and supportive treatment.

A/Fish Oil price

We have no data on the cost of the drug.
However, we will provide data for each active ingredient

Undesirable effects

See OVERDOSAGE section. Anaphylactic shock and death have been reported using the intravenous route. Allergic reactions have been reported rarely with administration of A/Fish Oil® Parenteral (vitamin a) including one case of an anaphylactoid type reaction.