Cozaar 100 mg 28 tablets

Cozaar 100 mg 28 tablets:

Losartan 50 mg film-coated tablets.

What is losartan and what are its uses:

• Losartan belongs to a group of medicines known as angiotensin II receptor antagonists.

Losartan is used:

•  To treat patients with high blood pressure in adults, children and adolescents aged 6-18 years.
•  To protect the kidneys of type 2 diabetic patients with high blood pressure with laboratory evidence of impaired kidney function and proteinuria 0.5 grams per day (a condition in which urine contains an abnormal amount of protein).
•  To treat patients with chronic heart failure when their doctor does not consider treatment with certain medicines called angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors, medicines used to lower high blood pressure). If your heart failure has been stabilized with ACE inhibitors, you should not be switched to losartan.
•  For patients with high blood pressure and left ventricular hypertrophy, CoZAR has been shown to reduce the risk of stroke.

Do not take losartan:

•  If you are allergic to losartan or any of the other ingredients of this medication,
• If you are pregnant for more than 3 months (it is also best to avoid losartan in early pregnancy),
• If you have severe liver dysfunction,
• If you have diabetes or kidney dysfunction and are being treated with a blood pressure lowering medicine containing aliskiren.

Warnings and precautions:

Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking losartan: 

• If you have a history of angioedema (swelling of the face, lips, throat and/or tongue),
• If you suffer from excessive vomiting or diarrhea resulting in severe loss of fluid and/or salt in your body,
• If you are receiving diuretics (medicines that increase the amount of water that leaves the kidneys) or if you are subject to dietary salt restrictions that result in a significant loss of fluid and salt in your body,
• If you are known to have narrowing or blockage in the blood vessels leading to your kidneys or if you have recently had a kidney transplant,
• If your liver function is weak,
• If you suffer from heart failure with or without kidney failure or concomitant serious, life-threatening arrhythmias. 
• If you suffer from coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular disease,
• If you suffer from primary hyperaldosteronism 
• If you are taking any of the following medicines used to treat high blood pressure: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, aliskiren.

Possible side effects of losartan:

• Dizziness.
• Reduction of Blood pressure.
• Dose-related orthostatic effects such as hypotension seen when rising from a supine position.
• fatigue.
• Hypoglycemia (hypoglycemia).
• Increased potassium in the blood (hyperkalemia).
• Changes in kidney function including kidney failure.
• Increased blood urea, serum creatinine and blood potassium in patients with heart failure.

the components:

• Losartan 50 mg .