Promethazine Hydrochloride (Injection)

Promethazine hydrochloride injection is indicated for the following conditions:

• Amelioration of allergic reactions to blood or plasma.
• In anaphylaxis as an adjunct to epinephrine and other standard measures after the acute symptoms have been controlled.
• For other uncomplicated allergic conditions of the immediate type when oral therapy is impossible or contraindicated.
• For sedation and relief of apprehension and to produce light sleep from which the patient can be easily aroused.
• Active treatment of motion sickness.
• Prevention and control of nausea and vomiting associated with certain types of anesthesia and surgery.
• As an adjunct to analgesics for the control of postoperative pain.
• Preoperative, postoperative, and obstetric (during labor) sedation.
• Intravenously in special surgical situations, such as repeated bronchoscopy, ophthalmic surgery, and poor-risk patients, with reduced amounts of meperidine or other narcotic analgesic as an adjunct to anesthesia and analgesia.