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Crestor (Rosuvastatin) Description
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 Common uses
Rosuvastatin is used with diet changes (restriction of cholesterol and fat intake) to reduce the amount of cholesterol and certain fatty substances in your blood. Accumulation of cholesterol and fats along the walls of your arteries (a process known as atherosclerosis) decreases blood flow and therefore the oxygen supply to your heart, brain, and other parts of your body. Lowering your blood level of cholesterol and fats may help to prevent heart disease, angina (chest pain), strokes, and heart attacks. Rosuvastatin is in a class of medications called HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins). It works by preventing the body from forming harmful cholesterol and increasing the amount of HDL ('good cholesterol') in your blood.
Other you use for this medicine This medication can be prescribed for other applications; to ask your doctor or phamacist more information. Special What precautions should I follow? Before taking rosuvastatin, - to say to your doctor and phamacist if you are allergic to rosuvastatin or to some other medications.
- to say to your doctor and phamacist what prescription and medications nonprescription, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbarios products you are taking. To be safe to mention the following one of: anticoagulants (“deluentes of the blood”) for example warfarin (Coumadin); cimetidine (Tagamet); cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune); ketoconazole (Nizoral); and other medications for rich in cholesterol as clofibrate (Atromid-S), fenofibrate (Tricor), gemfibrozil (Lopid), and niacin (Niaspan, Niacor). Your doctor can need to carefully change to the doses of your medications or supervisarte for the indirect effect.
- if you are taking antacid, tomaros at least the 2 hours after rosuvastatin.
- to say to your doctor if you drink great amounts of alcohol, if you have familiar antecedents of rich in cholesterol, and if you always have or you have had diabetes; graspings; a severe infection; an attack of the heart; a movement; arterial tension loss; or liver, kidney, or disease of thyroid.
- to say to your doctor if you are embarrassed or plan to do embarrassed. If beams embarrassed whereas it takes rosuvastatin, flames to your doctor immediately. Not to nurse whereas it takes rosuvastatin.
- if you are having surgery, including dental surgery, to say to the doctor or dentist who you are taking rosuvastatin.
- to ask your doctor about the safe use of spirits whereas you are taking rosuvastatin. The alcohol can increase the risk that you will experience serious indirect effect.
- to speak with your doctor on a program of the correct exercise that for you. The regular exercise will increase the effect of rosuvastatin.
What side effects dog this medication causes? Rosuvastatin can cause indirect effect. To say to your doctor if no of these symptoms is severe or it does not leave: - constipation
- pain the stomach
- upset stomach
- heartburn
- diarrea
- headache
- weakness
- vertigos
- falling of the sleepy difficulty or sleepy remaining
- depression
- backache
- pain or common weakness
- cough
Some indirect effect can be serious. The following symptoms are infrequent, but you experience nobodies of them, call immediately to your doctor: - pain, dulzura, or weakness of the muscle
- common pain
- fever, sore throat, coldness, or other samples of the infection
- influenza-like symptoms
- eruption
- swelling of the hands, the feet, the ankles, or the lowest legs
- pain chest
- pain in the superior right piece of the stomach
- yellowing of the skin or the eyes
- it tinkles dark
- entumecimiento or humming in fingers or toes
- urination painful or difficult
- infection of but
Rosuvastatin can cause other indirect effect. To call to your doctor if you have any unusual problems whereas it takes this medication. What storage conditions plows needed for this medicine? To maintain this medication the package that came inside, closed firmly, and outside the reach of children. To store it in the room temperature and far from excess of heat and humidity (not in the bathroom). To far send any medication that is old fashioned or needed not more. To speak with your phamacist on the appropriate disposition of your medication. |
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