Oral drops, solution - (0.2%) 2 mg/ml

Haloperidol belongs to a group of medicines called ‘antipsychotics’.

Haloperidol is used in adults, adolescents and children 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.

In adolescents and children, Haloperidol is used to treat schizophrenia in patients aged 13 to 17 years, and to treat behavioural problems in patients aged 6 to 17 years.

Haloperidol is also used:

• in adolescents and children aged 10 to 17 years and in adults for movements or sounds you can’t control (tics), for example in severe Tourette’s syndrome
• in adults to help control movements in Huntington’s disease.

Haloperidol is sometimes used when other medicines or treatments have not worked or caused unacceptable side effects.