Sodium Chloride (Intra-amniotic)

Before Receiving This Medicine

In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of receiving the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For sodium chloride, the following should be considered:

Allergies - Tell your health care professional if you are allergic to any substances, such as foods, preservatives, or dyes.

Other medicines - Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your health care professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine.

Other medical problems - The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of sodium chloride. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:

• Bleeding problems or

• Epilepsy or

• Heart or blood vessel disease or

• High blood pressure (hypertension) or

• Kidney disease - Sodium chloride injection may make these conditions worse or increase the chance of side effects occurring

• Fibroid tumors of the uterus - Large fibroid tumors may cause a problem with injecting sodium chloride into the uterus. Special injection precautions can be taken by the doctor if he knows that you have this type of tumor

• Previous major surgery of the uterus, including a cesarean - Scars in the uterus from any previous surgery of the uterus may increase the chance of medical problems occurring. Special precautions can be taken by the doctor to prevent problems from occurring