Senergy 10/160 mg 30 Tablets
Scientific name: Amlodipine 10 mg + Valsartan 160 mg.
Uses:
- Treatment of high blood pressure in adult patients when monotherapy with amlodipine or valsartan alone is not sufficient.
- High blood pressure is a common condition in which the long-term force of blood pressure against the walls of your arteries is high enough that it can eventually cause health problems, such as heart disease.
- Lowering blood pressure reduces the risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular diseases, especially stroke and myocardial infarction.
How to use:
- Always take this medication exactly as your doctor has told you.
- The tablets should be swallowed whole with a glass of water.
- You should try to take your daily dose at around the same time every day.
- You should continue taking the medication until your doctor tells you otherwise.
- Do not break the tablet in half.
- You can take the tablets with or without food.
- When used as initial therapy: Start with 5/160 mg, then titrate upward as necessary to a maximum of 10/320 mg once daily.
- The majority of the effect is achieved within two weeks.
- Doses may change in special circumstances, so always follow your doctor's instructions.
Side effects:
- swelling
- vertigo.
- Upper respiratory tract infection.
- pharyngitis.
- Dizziness.
Warnings and precautions:
- Reduction of Blood pressure.
- Monitor renal function and potassium in susceptible patients.
- If simvastatin is co-administered with amlodipine, do not exceed doses of more than 20 mg per day of simvastatin.
- Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may increase the risk of renal impairment and loss of antihypertensive effect.
- Do not use the drug with Aliskiren in patients with diabetes.
- Coadministration with lithium: increases the level of lithium in the blood.
Preservation method:
- Store at a temperature below 25 degrees Celsius.
- Do not refrigerate the medicine in the refrigerator.
- Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children.
- Must be stored in the original packaging to protect it from moisture.
- Do not use this medicine after the expiry date stated on the package.