- Formula re: Contains
- Multivitamin/Mineral softgel
- Formula re: Type
- Essential nutrition for the three vital stages of pregnancy
Preconception
Pregnancy
Postnatal
- General Statements: All Other Content
- Rx only
- Formula re: Type
- Indications and usage: TriCare Prenatal DHA ONE with Folate Multivitamin/Mineral Softgels are indicated to provide multivitamin/mineral/essential fatty acid supplementation throughout pregnancy and during the postnatal period for both the lactating and non-lactating mother. It is also useful for improving nutritional status prior to conception.
- Precautions re: All Other
- Contraindications: This product is contraindicated in patients with a known hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients.
- Precautions re: Children
- Warning: Accidental overdose of iron-containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in children under 6. Keep this product out of reach of children. In case of accidental overdose, call a doctor or poison control center immediately.
- Precautions re: All Other
- Folic acid alone is improper therapy in the treatment of pernicious anemia and other megaloblastic anemias where vitamin b-12 is deficient.
Precautions: Folic acid in doses above 1.0 mg daily may obscure pernicious anemia in that hematologic remission can occur while neurological manifestations progress.
- Suggested/Recommended/Usage/Directions
- Dosage and administration: One softgel daily or as directed by a physician.
- Formulation re: Other
- How supplied: TriCare Prenatal DHA ONE with Folate Multivitamin/Mineral Softgels for oral administration are supplied as purple softgels, imprinted in white ink: DHA 302 in a child-resistant plastic bottle of 30 softgels. (NDC 67112-302-30)
- Precautions re: All Other
- Warning: Ingestion of more than 3 grams of Omega-3 fatty acids (such as DHA) per day has been shown to have potential antithrombotic effects, including an increased bleeding time and International Normalized Ratio (INR). Administration of Omega-3 fatty acids should be avoided in patients taking anticoagulants and in those known to have interited or acquired predisposition to bleeding.
- Storage
- Store at controlled room temperature of: 20 degrees-30 degrees C (68 degrees-77 degrees F). Excursions permitted to 15 degrees-30 degrees C (59 degrees-86 degrees F).
- Precautions re: Children
- Keep this and all drugs out of the reach of children.
- Storage
- Notice: Contact with moisture may produce surface discoloration or erosion of the softgel.
- Precautions re: Allergies
- Adverse reactions: Allergic sensitization has been reported following both oral and parenteral administration of folic acid.