Divinus 5 mg dapagliflozin Tablets × 30

What dapagliflozin is used for:

• Dapagliflozin is used for the type of diabetes called type 2 diabetes where your body does not make enough insulin or is not able to use the insulin it produces properly.


• This leads to a high level of sugar in your blood.

Do not use dapagliflozin:

• If you are allergic to dapagliflozin or any of the other ingredients of this medicine.

Warnings and precautions:

Contact a doctor or the nearest hospital straight away:

• If you experience feeling sick or being sick, stomach pain, excessive thirst, fast and deep breathing, confusion, unusual sleepiness or tiredness, a sweet smell to your breath, a sweet or metallic taste in your mouth, or a different odor to your urine or sweat or rapid weight loss.


• The above symptoms could be a sign of “diabetic ketoacidosis” – a serious, sometimes life-threatening problem you can get with diabetes because of increased levels of “ketone bodies” in your urine or blood, seen in tests.


• The risk of developing diabetic ketoacidosis may be increased with prolonged fasting, excessive alcohol consumption, dehydration, sudden reductions in insulin dose, or a higher need of insulin due to major surgery or serious illness.


• When you are treated with Dapagliflozin, diabetic ketoacidosis can occur even if your blood sugar is normal.


• If you suspect you have diabetic ketoacidosis, contact a doctor or the nearest hospital straight away and do not take this medicine.

Possible side effects:

• Stop using the product and seek immediate medical attention if you develop throat tightness or swelling of the eyes, face, lips or tongue, feel faint, or have difficulty breathing.


• Stop using the product if you develop hives or itching of the face or body.

Other medicines and dapagliflozin:

• Tell your doctor, pharmacist or nurse if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines.

Especially tell your doctor:

• If you are taking a medicine used to remove water from the body (diuretic).


• Your doctor may ask you to stop taking dapagliflozin


• If you have type 2 diabetes and are taking other medicines that lower the amount of sugar in your blood such as insulin or a “sulphonylurea” medicine.


• Your doctor may want to lower the dose of these other medicines, to prevent you from getting low blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia)

How to use dapagliflozin:

If you are taking dapagliflozin for type 2 diabetes:

• The recommended dose is one 10 mg tablet each day


• Your doctor may start you on a 5 mg dose if you have a liver problem


• Your doctor will prescribe the strength that is right for you


• Taking this medicine


• Swallow the tablet whole with half a glass of water


• You can take your tablet with or without food


• You can take the tablet at any time of the day.


• However, try to take it at the same time each day.


• This will help you to remember to take it

How to store dapagliflozin:

• Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children


• Do not use this medicine after the expiry date, which is stated on the blister or carton after ‘EXP’.


• The expiry date refers to the last day of that month


• This medicine does not require any special storage conditions


• Do not throw away any medicines via wastewater or household waste.