Mevacor (Lovastatin) Description
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Common uses
This medicine is an hmg-coa reductase inhibitor (also known as a "statin") used to lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels in your blood. It may also be used to treat other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Directions To follow the directions to use this medicine provided by your doctor. If takings 1 newspaper of the dose, to take it with your food from afternoon unless it is directed of another way by your doctor. The metering is based on your medical condition, answer to the therapy, and the medicine use certain that builds reciprocally. To consult to your doctor or phamacist for more details. Not to eat pomelo nor to drink the juice of pomelo at the same time you taking this medicine. 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 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, including tests of the hepática function and levels of the cholesterol of the blood, can be made to supervise your progress or to verify for knowing if there are indirect effect. To keep all the appointments from the doctor and the laboratory whereas you are using this medicine. Before having any class of surgery, to say to your doctor that you are taking this medicine. To eat pomelo or to drink pomelo juice whereas you are taking this medicine you can increase the amount of this medicine in your blood, that can increase your risk for the serious indirect effect. To before speak with your doctor including pomelo or the juice of pomelo in your diet whereas you are taking this medicine. Before you begin to take any new medicine, excessive prescription or - opposite, check with your doctor or phamacist. For the women: not to use this medicine if you are embarrassed. If suspicions that you could be embarrassed, to immediately make contact with enemy with a your doctor. It is recommended that the women of the age of the maternity use effective measures of the birth control whereas they take this medicine since lovastatin can cause fetal damage. 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 includes the constipation. If it continues or he is annoying, to verify with your doctor. To verify with your doctor the sooner if you experience the impetuous, yellow skin or eyes, the unusual drain or the contusion, or the sore throat. This medicine can infrequently spoil the muscle (that can rarely lead to a condition very serious call rhabdomyolysis). To stop taking from this medicine and to immediately make contact with enemy with a your doctor if you experience pain/dulzura/la weakness the muscle (specially with unusual fever or tiredness). 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. 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. Additional information For the best results, this medicine is due to use exercise along with, under-colesterol/la diet with little fat, and a program of the loss of the weight if you are fat. To follow the dietetic plan provided by your doctor. 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 and domestic animals. If it uses this medicine by a period of the extended time, to obtain the repuesios before your source works towards outside. |
