Coversyl 5 mg 30 tablets:
It is a medication that belongs to a class of medications known as an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor. It works by widening blood vessels, making it easier for your heart to pump blood through them.
Coverseal uses:
- To treat high blood pressure.
- To treat heart failure (a disorder that makes the heart muscle unable to pump blood properly).
- To reduce the risk of cardiac events, such as a heart attack, in patients with stable coronary artery disease and in patients who have previously had a heart attack and/or the process of enhancing blood flow to the heart by dilating blood vessels.
Do not take Coversyl:
- If you are allergic to perindopril or any of the other ingredients of this medication, or to any other angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor.
- If you have previously had angioedema due to perindopril or another ACE inhibitor. Angioedema is a condition manifested by signs and symptoms such as swelling of the face, throat, or tongue, wheezing, severe itching, or severe rash.
- If a family member has previously suffered from angioedema due to perindopril arginine or another angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor.
- If you are pregnant for more than 3 months.
- If you have diabetes or kidney problems and are taking aliskiren.
- If you develop allergic reactions such as shortness of breath, rash, swelling of the face or neck, low blood pressure, and dizziness.
Warnings and precautions:
Talk to your doctor before starting this medication:
- If you have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (a heart muscle problem), aortic stenosis (narrowing of the main blood vessel leading to the heart) or renal artery stenosis (narrowing of the artery that supplies blood to the kidneys).
- If you have liver or kidney problems or if you are undergoing dialysis.
- If you suffer from diabetes.
- If you have a collagen vascular disease (a connective tissue disorder) such as scleroderma or systemic lupus erythematosus.
- If you follow a salt-restricted diet or use salt substitutes that contain potassium.
- If you are going to have LDL apheresis (removing cholesterol from your blood using a machine).
- If you are going to undergo surgery and/or anesthesia.
- If you are to undergo desensitization treatment to reduce the effects of wasp stings or bee allergy.
- If you are intolerant to some sugars.
- If you have recently had vomiting, diarrhea, or dehydration.
- If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant.
Possible side effects:
Other medicines and Coversil:
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking
- Blood pressure medications (such as Aliskiren).
- Diuretics (used to increase urination).
- NSAIDs (used to reduce inflammation, pain and fever such as ibuprofen) or high dose aspirin.
- Medicines to treat diabetes (such as metformin or insulin).
- Lithium (used for depression or mania).
- Eplerenone (used to treat heart failure).
- Potassium-sparing medications (such as spironolactone, amiloride, triamterene), potassium-containing salt substitutes or potassium supplements.
- Baclofen (used to treat muscle stiffness in diseases such as multiple sclerosis).
- Immunosuppressants (medicines used to reduce the body's defense after a transplant or to treat autoimmune disorders such as cyclosporine and tacrolimus).
- Medicines to treat mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia (such as antipsychotics and tricyclic antidepressants).
- Procainamide (used to treat irregular heartbeats).
- Estramustine (used to treat cancer).
- Allopurinol (used to treat gout).
- Gold salts, especially when given into a vein (used to treat signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis).
- Trimethoprim (used to treat infections).
- Vasodilators including nitrates (medicines to widen blood vessels).
- Medicines to treat asthma, shock, and low blood pressure (such as ephedrine, adrenaline, or noradrenaline).
- Heparin (blood thinner).
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