Meclizine
Meclizine 25mg tablets calm travel sickness and the spinning of vertigo; a single dose lasts most of a day and is taken before travel starts.
All strengths and pack prices
| Strength | Pack | Price | Per tablet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25mg | 60 tablets | $33.00 | $0.55 |
| 25mg | 90 tablets | $42.30 | $0.47 |
- Category
- Digestive Health
- Active ingredient
- Meclizine Hydrochloride
- Route
- Oral
- Form
- Tablet
- Strengths
- 25mg
You will receive a quality generic, depending on stock.
Shipped in a discreet, unmarked envelope.
Details
- Conditions
- Motion sickness · Vertigo
- Brands with the same ingredient
- Bonine
- Therapeutic Class
- Antihistamine
- Pharmacological Class
- Antivertigo
- Minor Side Effects
- Drowsiness, Dry mouth, Blurred vision
- Moderate Side Effects
- Fatigue, Headache
- Dosage Forms
- Tablet
- Administration Route
- Oral
- Originator
- Pfizer
- Onset Time
- 1 hour
- Duration
- 8–24 hours
- Storage Instructions
- Store in a dry place.
- Drug Interactions
- Alcohol, Sedatives
- Age Restrictions
- Use with caution in elderly
What you will receive
Meclizine is a generic medicine sold under the name of its active ingredient, Meclizine Hydrochloride.
- The manufacturer depends on what is in stock when your order ships.
- It contains the same active ingredient, at the same strength, as the brand-name versions.
FAQ
Which Meclizine strengths and pack sizes can I order?
You can order Meclizine 25mg tablets in packs of 60 or 90. Larger packs cost less per tablet.
Can a large Meclizine order be split for Hong Kong delivery?
Very large Meclizine orders over 120 units may be split into several parcels. Every order ships in plain, unbranded packaging with nothing outside about the contents. Tracked courier takes 5 to 9 business days with online tracking.
What is another name for meclizine hydrochloride?
Brand names for meclizine hydrochloride include Antivert and Bonine. Meclizine tablets are a pure generic meclizine hydrochloride product and are not any of those brands.
How long does a meclizine tablet last?
A single 25mg tablet covers most of a day, which is why travel use is one tablet in 24 hours. On an overnight ferry or a long-haul flight, the next tablet is for the next morning.
Can I drink alcohol with meclizine?
Skip it on a meclizine day. Both make you drowsy and unsteady, and a drink during the journey can bring back the nausea you took the tablet to avoid.
Is meclizine the same as Bonine or Antivert?
Bonine and Antivert are brand names for meclizine hydrochloride, so a tablet of either holds the same active ingredient as the 25mg meclizine sold here. What changes between them is the name on the box, not the medicine inside.
Does meclizine help with vertigo?
Yes — it is used for the spinning and unsteadiness that starts in the inner ear, including spells linked to Ménière's disease. It quietens the dizziness while a dose is working, but it does not put right the ear problem behind it, so the symptoms can come back.
Where should I keep meclizine tablets?
In their blister strips, in the box, on a shelf that stays cool and out of direct sun. Heat and damp are what spoil tablets, so a glovebox in summer is a poor home for them — the fridge is not needed.
About Meclizine
What meclizine tablets are for
Meclizine is an antihistamine, though nothing to do with hay fever. Its work is on balance: it damps down the nerve signals travelling from the inner ear to the brain, which is why it suits travel sickness and vertigo (the false sense that you or the room around you is turning).
Travel sickness begins with a disagreement. On a boat or in a car the inner ear registers movement while your eyes, fixed on a book or a phone, register stillness. Nausea, sweating and dizziness are the brain's response, and meclizine softens it.
Inner-ear dizziness is the other reason people buy it, including Ménière's disease, where spells of vertigo arrive with ringing or a blocked feeling in the ears.
How to take a meclizine tablet
Take one 25mg tablet with water about an hour before you set off, because a tablet swallowed after the queasiness has started does much less. On a long crossing or flight the usual adult dose is a single tablet in 24 hours. Vertigo is handled differently: a tablet each day, not only when the dizziness starts.
Sitting where there is least movement helps — the front of a car, the middle of a boat — as does keeping your gaze on something steady like the horizon and taking in fresh air. Books, films and phone screens make the mismatch worse, and so do heavy or spicy meals.
Side effects
Drowsiness is the one most people feel, and it can still be there the next morning. A dry mouth, blurry vision, headache and a washed-out feeling are common too.
Meclizine can make it harder to pass urine if the prostate is enlarged, and it can bring on an attack of narrow-angle glaucoma because it raises pressure inside the eye. Older people sometimes become confused or unsteady on it.
Try your first tablet at a time when you do not need to drive or run machinery, so you know how drowsy it makes you.
Alcohol and other medicines
Drinking on a meclizine day deepens the drowsiness and the wobbliness, and alcohol alone can stir up the nausea you are trying to avoid. Other antihistamines, sleeping tablets, sedatives and opioid painkillers pile on the same drowsiness.
The 25mg tablet
Meclizine is sold here as 25mg tablets, swallowed with water. Keep them in the blister pack, on a shelf that stays cool and shaded.
Sources
- Motion sickness - NHS — National Health Service
- Motion Sickness | CDC Yellow Book™ — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention