Travellers' Diarrhoea (Rescue Pack)

Our Click Doctor Travellers’ Diarrhoea Rescue Pack for travellers’ diarrhoea contains a cocktail of medicines to help treat and combat all your symptoms in those who develop diarrhoea when abroad.

(1) Azithromycin 500mg tabs (3 tabs)- an antibiotic used to treat bacterial causes of travellers’ diarrhoea
(2) Imodium Classic Capsules (Loperamide 2mg) (12 caps)- used to help control loose bowels
(3) ORS rehydration tabs (24 tabs)- to help prevent dehydration
(4) Paracetamol 500mg tabs (32 tabs)- to help with stomach pains and fever

Azithromycin 500mg tablets- Take one tablet a day for 3 days. Continue the course until it is complete unless advised otherwise by a doctor. Start taking immediately once symptoms of travellers’ diarrhoea occur. These include diarrhoea, sickness, nausea and stomach cramps.

Imodium Original Capsules- Take two capsules initially and one capsule thereafter after each loose bowel movement. Do not take more than six capsules in a 24 hour period.

Paracetamol 500mg tablets- Take one or two tablets upto four times a day. Do not take more than 8 tablets in a 24 hour period.

ORS rehydration tablets- Dissolve one or two ORS in 200ml (approx. 7fl oz) of drinking water after every loose motion. Use fresh drinking water at all times.

Some medicines are not suitable for people with certain conditions or on particular medicines. For this reason, it is very important you declare your full medical history to our Click Doctors via our online consultations so that a proper judgement can be made on its safety.

Do not use the Rescue Pack:

• If you are allergic to any of the active ingredients or any of the other ingredients of this medicine
• If you have hypersensitivity to erythromycin, any macrolide or ketolide antibiotic, or soya lecithin.
• If you have severe diarrhoea after taking antibiotics.
• If you are having a flare-up of an inflammatory bowel condition like ulcerative colitis.
• If you are constipated, or your stomach appears swollen (especially in children with severe dehydration).
• If you have acute dysentery, the symptoms of which may include blood in stools and a fever

For full information on how to take, side effects and precautions, it is important that you carefully read patient information leaflet for Azithromycin, Paracetamol, Imodium Original, ORS.