Actos (Pioglitazone Hydrochloride) Description
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Common uses
This medicine is used to treat type 2 diabetes by reducing the resistance your body has to insulin. It is used either alone or in combination with other anti-diabetes medicines, including metformin or insulin, as part of a diet and exercise program.
Directions To follow the directions to use this medicine provided by your doctor. This medicine can be taken in an empty stomach or with the food. To store this medicine in the room temperature in 77 degrees of f (25 degrees of c) in a tight-closed package, far from the heat, of the humidity, and the light. If lack a dose of this medicine, to take it as soon as possible. If it is almost hour for your following dose, to jump the lacked dose and to go again to your schedule of regular metering. Not to take 2 doses immediately. Cautions Not to stop using of the this medicine or the other medicine of the diabetes without the first verification with your doctor. To verify with your doctor before fitting the dose of your medicine of the diabetes or to change your diet. If you are taking this medicine with the other medicine from the diabetes, you are in an increasing risk to become hipoglicémico (sugar of low blood). The samples of hypoglycemia include a beat of the increasing heart, a headache, to sweat, a tremor, an increasing hunger, changes in the vision, a nervousness, or tiredness. To discuss with your doctor or nurse how to handle hipoglicémicas reactions. To keep all the appointments from the doctor and the laboratory whereas you are using this medicine. The laboratory and/or the medical tests such as tests of the hepática function and levels of the blood of hba1c can be made to supervise your progress or to verify for knowing if there are indirect effect. Before you have any treatments, well-taken care of of the emergency, or medical or dental surgery, to say to the doctor or dentist who you are using this medicine. Before you begin to take any new medicine, excessive prescription or - opposite, check with your doctor or phamacist. For the women who take pills from the birth control: this medicine can diminish the effectiveness of your pill of the birth control. In order to prevent pregnancy, to use an additional form of birth control. For the women: this medicine can increase to your occasion of the pregnancy doing the ovulation to reassume in the women premenopausal who not ovulating. If you glide in arriving to be embarrassed, to discuss with your doctor the advantages and the risks of using this medicine during pregnancy. It is not known if this medicine is excreted in maternal milk. Not to nurse whereas it takes this medicine. Possible side effects An indirect effect that can happen whereas it takes this medicine is sore throat. If it continues or he is annoying, to verify with your doctor. To immediately make contact with enemy with a your doctor if you experience the following indirect effect: swelling or swelling themselves of ankles, feet, or hands; pain chest; fast increase of the weight; shortness of the breathing; fatigue; unexplained nausea or vomiting; pain the stomach; loss of appetite; unusual thirst; unusual amount of tinkles; it tinkles dark; or yellowing of the skin or the eyes. If notes other effects nonenumerated above, to make contact with enemy with a your doctor, nurse, or phamacist. If you take too much If the overdose is suspected, to immediately make contact with enemy with your control center of the poison or site of local emergency. |
