Atacand 8 mg 28 tablets

Atacand 8 mg 28 tablets:

Scientific name: Candesartan 8 mg tablets.

Uses:

• Treatment of high blood pressure in adult patients.
• Treatment of adult heart failure patients who suffer from insufficient heart muscle function.

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.
• To treat high blood pressure: The usual dose of the tablets is 8 mg once a day and your doctor may increase this dose to 16 mg once a day and up to 32 mg once a day depending on your blood pressure response.
• To treat heart failure: The usual starting dose for the tablets is 4 mg once a day and your doctor may increase your dose by doubling the dose at intervals of at least two weeks up to 32 mg once a day.
• Doses may change in special circumstances, so always follow your doctor's instructions.

side effects:

1. Common:
   

• Feeling dizzy/spinning sensation.
• Headache.
• Respiratory infection.
• Low blood pressure. This may make you feel faint or dizzy.
• Changes in blood test results: Increased amount of potassium in your blood, especially if you already have kidney problems or heart failure.
• Effects on how your kidneys work, especially if you already have kidney problems or heart failure.

     2. Very rare:

• Swelling of the face, lips, tongue and/or throat.
• Decrease in red or white blood cells. You may notice fatigue, infection, or fever.
• rash.
• Itchy.
• Back pain, joint and muscle pain.
• Changes in the way the liver works, including hepatitis.
• You may notice fatigue, yellowing of the skin and the whites of your eyes, and flu-like symptoms.
• nausea.
• Changes in blood test results: decreased amount of sodium in the blood.
• cough.

Warnings and precautions:

Stop taking the tablets and seek medical help immediately if you have any of the following allergic reactions:

• Difficulties breathing, with or without swelling of the face, lips, tongue and/or throat.
•  Swelling of the face, lips, tongue and/or throat.
• Severe itching of the skin.

Before you take or while taking the tablets, tell your doctor:

• If you have heart, liver or kidney problems or are undergoing dialysis.
• If you have recently had a kidney transplant.
• If you are vomiting or have recently had severe vomiting or diarrhea.
• If you have an adrenal gland disease called Conn's syndrome (also called primary hyperaldosteronism).
• If you have low blood pressure.
• If you have had a stroke.

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.