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Glucophage (Metformin) Description
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Common uses
This medicine is a biguanide-type medicine used along with a diet and exercise program to control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes. This medicine works by helping restore your body's proper response to the insulin you naturally produce, and by decreasing the amount of sugar that your liver makes and that your stomach/intestines absorb. Controlling high blood sugar helps prevent heart disease, strokes, kidney disease, blindness, circulation problems, and sexual function problems. This medicine may be used to treat other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Directions To take this medicine with the food. To drink a pile of liquids whereas it takes this medicine. To continue tomándote to this medicine although affluent sensation. Not to lack any dose. To use this medication regularly to obtain most of the advantage of her. For ayudarte to at the same time remember, to use it every day. This medicine can come with I prospect patient of the information. Read you carefully. To ask your doctor, nurse, or phamacist any question that you can have on this medicine. To store this medicine in the room temperature 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 take this medicine if you have had an allergic reaction to her or you are allergic to any ingredient in this product. The laboratory and/or the medical tests such as tests of kidney and liver function, glucose of uninformed of the blood, hemoglobina glycosylated, or complete accounts of blood, are due to make to supervise your progress or to verify for knowing if there are indirect effect. To regularly verify your sugar of the blood or of tinkles it according to the directed thing by your doctor. If your sugars of blood have been under control and are suddenly difficult to handle, as soon as possible to make contact with enemy with a your doctor. Before you have any treatments, well-taken care of of the emergency, medical or dental laboratory tests, or surgery, to say to the doctor or dentist who you are using this medicine. During times of the tension such as fever, infection, injury, or surgery can be more difficult to control your sugar of blood. To consult your doctor, as a change in your medicine can be required. This medicine noncause generally the sugar of low blood, or hypoglycemia, but this effect can happen if you do not consume enough calories of the food, the juice, the fruit, or other sources. The symptoms of hypoglycemia include coldness, the cold sweat, vertigos, somnolencia, to sacudarir, beat of the fast heart, the weakness, the headache, to desmayar themselves, to hum of the hands or the feet, or hunger. It is a good habit to take to the tablets or the gel of the glucose to deal with the sugar low blood. If you are in a situation where you do not have these reliable glucose forms, to eat a fast source of the sugar as sugar of the table, honey, the caramel, or to drink a crystal of orange juice or not-puts on a diet soda water to quickly raise your blood sugar level. To speak immediately to your doctor of the reaction. In order to help to prevent hypoglycemia, to eat the meals in a regular schedule and not to jump the meals. The symptoms of the sugar of high blood, or hyperglycemia, include thirst, urination increasing, the confusion, the somnolencia, to clean with a spurt of water, the fast breathing, or the scent with flavor to fruit of the breathing. If these symptoms happen, to say immediately to your doctor. Your metering of the medicine can need to be increased. Possible side effects The indirect effect, of which they can go far during the treatment, include metallic taste in mouth, nausea, upheaval of the stomach, flatulencia, and diarrea. If they continue or they are annoying, to verify with your doctor. If the symptoms of the stomach are repeated after you are in the same dose for several days or weeks, to say immediately to your doctor. A last repetition of the symptoms of the stomach can be due to a medical condition serious call lactic acidosis. To immediately make contact with enemy with a your doctor if you experience tiredness unusual, the severe somnolencia, the cold skin, the pain or the pains, fast breathing of the muscle, or you unusually slow down or beat of the irregular heart. An allergic reaction to this medicine is improbable immediate medical attention, but of the search if it happens. The symptoms of an allergic reaction include the eruption, to itch, to swell themselves, vertigos, or the breathing of the hardship. If notes other effects nonenumerated above, to make contact with enemy with a your doctor, nurse, or phamacist. |
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