My husband has ran out of his prescription only medication, folic acid 5mg, so he has bought some from asda but it doesn't provide the strength of the individual tablets, are all folic acid tablets the same strengths?? Thanku in advance x
Is 5mg of folic acid thats prescribed by a gp the same as buying them from asda?
Question posted by scatty natty on 31 Aug 2014
Last updated on 29 March 2018
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kaismama
31 Aug 2014
Folic acid does not need a prescription. You would think somewhere on the bottle it would say how much folic acid is in them. I believe they also come in 1 and 3 mg.
Sam Winston
29 March 2018
This is wrong. Anything under 5mg can be bought in pharmacies but for 5mg it can only be prescribed so it's not available in pharmacies. You can get weaker doses but even at its highest the recipient would need to take 20-25 tablets to equal the prescription 5mg. It's best in this instance to stick with the prescription I feel.
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