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Glucotrol XL (Glipizide XL) Description
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Common uses
This is an anti-diabetic medicine (sulfonylurea-type) used along with a proper diet and exercise program to control high blood sugar. It is used in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes). It works by stimulating the release of your body's natural insulin. Effectively controlling blood sugar helps prevent heart disease, strokes, kidney disease, blindness, and circulation problems, as well as sexual function problems (impotence).
Directions To follow the directions to use this medicine provided by your doctor. To take to this medicine by oral route 30 minutes before a food. The metering is based on your medical condition and answer to the therapy. To take this medicine regularly to receive most of the advantage of her. To take to the medicine at the same time every day will help you to remember. To supervise the levels of the glucose of the blood on a regular base. To store this medicine in a package tight-closed in the room temperature underneath 86 degrees of f (30 degrees of c), 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 It is important that guards all the appointments of the doctor and the laboratory whereas you are using this medicine. The laboratory and/or the medical tests (the tests of function e.g., liver and kidney, glucose of uninformed of the blood, hemoglobina glycosylated, the complete accounts of blood) are due to make periodically to supervise your progress or to verify for knowing if there are indirect effect. To verify your blood regularly or tinkles to know if there is sugar according to directed by your doctor or phamacist. You can experience the vision, vertigos, or the somnolencia guarded due to the extremely low or high sugar levels of blood. To have well-taken care of that hooks to the activities that require monitoring as machinery that leads or of operation. To limit the spirits whereas it uses this medicine because they can increase the risk of developing hypoglycemia. Rarely, the alcohol can build reciprocally with glipizide and cause a serious reaction (disulfiram-like the reaction) with symptoms such as to clean with a spurt of water, face nausea, to vomit, vertigos, or pain the stomach. To consult to your doctor or phamacist on the safe use of the alcohol. 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 can cause increasing sensitivity to the sun. To avoid the exhibition to the sun or sunlamps until you know you react to this medicine. To use to they sunscreen or protective clothing if you must be in favor outside of a prolonged period. Before you begin to take any new medicine, excessive prescription or - opposite, check with your doctor or phamacist. This medicine in old since they can be more sensible to the effects of this medicine, specially hypoglycemia is advised to the precaution when using. Possible side effects The indirect effect, of which they can go far during the treatment, include nausea, to vomit, the loss of appetite, the diarrea, the constipation, the upset stomach, the headache, or the increase of the weight. If they continue or they are annoying, to verify with your doctor. To make contact immediately with enemy with your doctor if you experience persistent the sore throat or fever, easy drain/contusion, pain the stomach, the eyes or skin that yellow, tinkles dark, tiredness or unusual weakness, increase unusual or sudden of the weight, the changes mentales/de humor, swelling themselves of the hands or the feet, or the graspings. This medicine can cause the sugar of low blood (hypoglycemia). This effect can happen if you do not consume enough calories (of the food, the juice, the fruit, the etc). The symptoms include coldness, the cold sweat, the guarded vision, vertigos, somnolencia, to sacudarir, fast heart rate, 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, you did not eat a fast source of the sugar as sugar, honey, or caramel of the table, neither you drank a crystal of orange juice nor no-no you put on a diet soda water to quickly raise your blood sugar level. To speak immediately to your doctor of the reaction. 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. The symptoms of the overdose can include shakiness, beat of the fast heart, sweat, and the loss of sense. |
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