Montelukast

• Take exactly as how your healthcare professional has told you.
• Do not stop taking your medication without checking with your healthcare professional.
• You make take this medication with or without food.

If taking:

4mg Oral Granules

• The granules should be consumed within 15 minutes of opening the sachet.
• The medication can be mixed with a spoonful of the following room temperature food: apple sauce, mashed carrots, breast milk, porridge, rice, milk.
• Alternatively, the medication can be fed directly into the child's mouth.
• Your child may drink other room temperature liquids after swallowing the granules.
• If the recommended method of administration above is not possible, you may mix the granules with room temperature water in a spoon and get the child to swallow the mixture immediately.
• The granules will NOT dissolve in the liquids above. Do not attempt to dissolve or crush the granules.

       

5mg Chewable Tablets

• Chew well before swallowing.

10mg Oral Tablets

• Swallow whole with a glass of water, juice or milk. Do not crush, cut or dissolve the tablets.
• It can be taken with or without food.

 

Administer the missed dose as soon as you remember it. If you remember a missed dose at the time of the next dose, omit the missed dose and take only the regularly scheduled dose. Do not take a double dose to make up for the missed one.