Mezolam 5mg Injection

Last Updated: October 1st, 2025

Mezolam 5mg Injection is a product of Neon Laboratories Ltd

Composition: Midazolam (5mg)

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All Details About Mezolam 5mg Injection

Find out detailed description, uses, directions of use, side effects, warnings and precautions, frequently asked questions about Mezolam 5mg Injection

Description:

Mezolam 5mg Injection is used as a sedative or for conscious sedation before diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. It relieves anxiety and muscle tensions, thus making the person comfortable before investigations or minor surgical or dental procedures.

Mezolam 5mg Injection can be used for sedation in intensive care units and to obtain anesthesia in elderly people before undergoing any surgical procedure. This medicine is given as an injection under the supervision of a healthcare professional in a hospital setting. It may be administered by intravenous injection (injection into a vein) or by intravenous infusion (given by a drip into a vein).

The most common side effects of this medicine include hiccup, nausea, vomiting, cough, sedation, headache, drowsiness, and injection site reactions (pain, swelling, and redness). You should not drive or do anything that requires mental focus until you know how this medicine affects you. Inform your doctor if you are pregnant, planning to conceive, or breastfeeding before taking this medicine.

Uses:

Directions For Use:

Your doctor or nurse will give you this medicine. Compassionately do not self administer.

Side Effects:

Most side effects do not require any medical attention and disappear as your body adjusts to the medicine. Consult your doctor if they persist or if you’re worried about them

Ordinary side effects of Mezolam

Injection site reactions (pain, swelling, redness)
Vomiting
Injection site pain
Sleepiness
Apnea (absence of breathing)
Decreased respiratory rate
Nasal discomfort

Warning & Precautions:

Alcohol

UNSAFE

Mezolam 5mg Injection may cause excessive drowsiness with alcohol.

Pregnancy

CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR

Mezolam 5mg Injection is unsafe to use during pregnancy as there is definite evidence of risk to the developing baby. However, the doctor may rarely prescribe it in some life-threatening situations if the benefits are more than the potential risks. Please consult your doctor.

Breast feeding

SAFE IF PRESCRIBED

Mezolam 5mg Injection is probably safe to use during breastfeeding. Limited human data suggests that the drug does not represent any significant risk to the baby.
Mezolam 5mg Injection should be used for short periods and sleepiness of the baby should be watched. The withdrawal of Mezolam 5mg Injection should be gradual.

Driving

UNSAFE

Mezolam 5mg Injection may cause side effects which could affect your ability to drive.
Mezolam 5mg Injection may make the patient sleepy, forgetful or affect their concentration or coordination. This may affect their ability to drive.

Kidney

CAUTION

Mezolam 5mg Injection should be used with caution in patients with severe kidney disease. Dose adjustment of Mezolam 5mg Injection may be needed. Please consult your doctor.

Liver

CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR

There is limited information available on the use of Mezolam 5mg Injection in patients with liver disease. Please consult your doctor.

FAQs:

Is Mezolam 5mg Injection safe?

Mezolam 5mg Injection is safe if used at prescribed doses for the prescribed duration as advised by your doctor

Is Mezolam 5mg Injection a controlled substance?

Affirmative, Mezolam 5mg Injection is a controlled substance

Is Mezolam 5mg Injection a sedative?

Affirmative, Mezolam 5mg Injection a sedative medication used before and during diagnostic or surgical procedures either in combination with or without local anesthesia

Is Mezolam 5mg Injection an opiate?

No, Mezolam 5mg Injection is not an opiate medication

Is Mezolam 5mg Injection a benzodiazepine?

Affirmative, Mezolam 5mg Injection belongs to benzodiazepine class of sedative medication

Is Mezolam 5mg Injection a schedule 8 drug?

No, Mezolam 5mg Injection belongs to schedule 4. It has low potential for abuse

Is Mezolam 5mg Injection versed?

Versed is a brand (trade) name for Mezolam 5mg Injection

Does Mezolam 5mg Injection have analgesic properties?

No, Mezolam 5mg Injection does not have any analgesic properties. It is used as a central nervous system depressant that slows brain activity, causes relaxation and induces sleep (anesthetic)

Does Mezolam 5mg Injection make you high/knock you out (make you sleep)?

No, Mezolam 5mg Injection does not make you high; it makes you sleepy as it is a central nervous system depressant that slows brain activity, causes relaxation and induces sleep

Does Mezolam 5mg Injection cause retrograde amnesia?

Affirmative, Mezolam 5mg Injection causes retrograde amnesia (short term loss of memory)

Does Mezolam 5mg Injection hasten death?

No, Mezolam 5mg Injection does not hasten death. Although it may be used to induce sleep and relive anxiety in terminally-ill patients not responding to other relevant medications

Does Mezolam 5mg Injection cross the placenta?

Affirmative, Mezolam 5mg Injection crosses the placenta.

Written by:
Dr. Lokanish
M.B.B.S.

Reviewed by:
Dr. Sureshbabu Yadav
M.B.B.S., DIP.DIAB, F.R.S.H

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