Lopressor (Metoprolol) Description
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Common uses
This medicine is a beta-blocker used to treat high blood pressure and angina pectoris (chest pain). It is also used after a heart attack to improve survival. Controlling high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems. This medicine may also be used to treat other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Before using Warning: if you have angina or you have had problems of the heart, not to suddenly stop using of this medicine without first consulting your doctor. If your doctor decides you must use not plus this medicine, you must gradually stop this medicine according to the instructions of your doctor. Not to take this medicine if also you are taking the mibefradil. The additional supervision of your dose or condition can be necessary if you are taking amiodarone, the barbiturates, the pills of the birth control, cimetidine, disopyramide, flecainide, indomethacin, methimazole, the propylthiouracil, quinidine, or the verapamil. To inform to your doctor any other conditions, allergies, pregnancy, or medical breast-feeding. The use of this medicine is not recommended if you have a history of the block of the heart. To make contact with enemy with a your doctor or phamacist if you have some questions or preoccupations to use this medicine. Directions To follow the directions to use this medicine provided by your doctor. To always take this medicine with the food or always in an empty stomach at the same time every day. To store this medicine in the room temperature, far from the heat and of 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 taking from this medicine without the verification with your doctor. 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. This medicine can cause to somnolencia or vertigos. Not to lead, not to work the machinery, nor to do all the others that could be dangerous until you know you react to this medicine. Before taking any new medicine, excessive prescription or - opposite, verifying with your doctor or phamacist. This includes any used medicine to treat colds or the congestión. If your doctor has commanded to you to verify your arterial pressure and heart rate regularly, to be safe to do so. For the women: if you glide in arriving to be embarrassed, to discuss with your doctor the advantages and the risks of using this medicine during pregnancy. This medicine is excreted in maternal milk. If you are or you nurse whereas you are using this medicine, to verify with your doctor or phamacist to discuss the risks to your baby. For the patients with mellitus of the diabetes: this medicine can mask samples of the sugar of low blood such as a beat of the fast heart. To regularly verify the levels of the glucose of the blood. Possible side effects The indirect effect, of which they can go far during the treatment, include smooth somnolencia; I navigate or vertigos; or tiredness or unusual weakness. If they continue or they are annoying, to verify with your doctor. To verify with your doctor the sooner if you experience the breathing of the difficulty. 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. The symptoms of the overdose can include very slow heart rate, severe vertigos, be desmayar, the weakness, and the difficult or slowed down breathing. Additional information Not to share this medicine with others for whom it was not prescribed. Not to use this medicine for other conditions of the health. To keep this medicine outside the reach from children. If it uses this medicine by a period of the extended time, to obtain the repuesios before your source works towards outside. Drug interactions The interactions of the drug can give rise to undesired indirect effect or avoid that a medicine makes its work. Some medical medicines or conditions can build reciprocally with this medicine. To inform to your doctor or phamacist all the excessive prescription and - the opposite medicine that you are taking. |
