Haloperidol

Haloperidol – 5 mg / ml Solution for injection

Haloperidol belongs to a group of medicines called ‘antipsychotics’.
Haloperidol is used in adults for illnesses affecting the way you think, feel or behave.
These include mental health problems (such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) and behavioural problems.
These illnesses may make you:
• feel confused (delirium);
• see, hear, feel or smell things that are not there (hallucinations);
• believe things that are not true (delusions);
• feel unusually suspicious (paranoia);
• feel very excited, agitated, enthusiastic, impulsive or hyperactive;
• feel very aggressive, hostile or violent.
Haloperidol is also used in adults:
• to help control movements in Huntington’s disease;
• to prevent or treat nausea and vomiting (feeling and being sick) after surgery.
Haloperidol may be used on its own or with other medicine, and is sometimes used when other medicines or treatments have not worked, caused unacceptable side effects, or cannot be taken by mouth.