What is Prexum medication used for?
PREXUM lowers high blood pressure, a condition which doctors call hypertension. Everyone has blood pressure. This pressure helps get your blood all around the body. Your blood pressure may be different at different times of the day, depending on how busy or worried you are.
Does perindopril lower heart rate?
How does perindopril work? Perindopril is a type of medicine called an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. Like other ACE inhibitors, perindopril relaxes and widens the blood vessels. This lowers your blood pressure and makes it easier for your heart to pump blood around your body.
Does diabetes cause hair loss?
People with diabetes are more likely to have a condition called alopecia areata. With alopecia, the immune system attacks the hair follicles, leading to patches of hair loss on the head and on other parts of the body. Diabetes itself can lead to hair loss.
What are the side effects of Prexum?
PREXUM helps most people with high blood pressure, heart failure or coronary artery disease, but it may have unwanted side effects in a few people. While these side effects when they occur are usually mild they can be serious. Severe blisters, skin rash, itching, erythema multiforme or other allergic reactions.
Can gliclazide raise blood sugar?
Gliclazide may also increase the effects of medicines that thin your blood, such as warfarin. Some women might need a small adjustment in their gliclazide dose after starting contraceptive pills, as in rare cases they can increase blood sugar levels.
Can I take gliclazide and insulin?
Combination treatment with other antidiabetic agents: Gliclazide 80 mg can be given in combination with biguanides, alpha glucosidase inhibitors or insulin. In patients not adequately controlled with Gliclazide 80 mg, concomitant insulin therapy can be initiated under close medical supervision.