Lisinopril 10mg tablets

País: Reino Unido

Língua: inglês

Origem: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)

Ingredientes ativos:

Lisinopril

Disponível em:

Lupin Healthcare (UK) Ltd

Código ATC:

C09AA03

DCI (Denominação Comum Internacional):

Lisinopril

Dosagem:

10mg

Forma farmacêutica:

Oral tablet

Via de administração:

Oral

Classe:

No Controlled Drug Status

Tipo de prescrição:

Valid as a prescribable product

Resumo do produto:

BNF: 02050501; GTIN: 8901107000868

Folheto informativo - Bula

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PACKAGE LEAFLET: INFORMATION FOR THE USER
LISINOPRIL 2.5 MG, 5 MG, 10 MG AND 20 MG TABLETS
Lisinopril Dihydrate
READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS
MEDICINE BECAUSE IT CONTAINS
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU.
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Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
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If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
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This medicine has been prescribed for you only. Do not pass it on to
others. It may harm them,
even if their signs of illness are the same as yours.
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If you get any side effects talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This
includes any possible side
effects not listed in this leaflet. See section 4.
WHAT IS IN THIS LEAFLET
1.
What Lisinopril Tablets are and what they are used for
2.
What you need to know before you take Lisinopril Tablets
3.
How to take Lisinopril Tablets
4.
Possible side effects
5.
How to store Lisinopril Tablets
6.
Contents of the pack and other information
1.
WHAT LISINOPRIL TABLETS ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR
The name of your medicine is Lisinopril Tablets. The active
ingredient, Lisinopril, belongs to a group
of medicines called angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
which work by widening your
blood vessels. This helps reduce blood pressure and also relieves the
workload of the heart in
patients with heart failure and following a heart attack.
Lisinopril Tablets are useful in the treatment of:

High blood pressure (hypertension).

Heart failure.

Patients who are stable but have had a heart attack within the last 24
hours.
2.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU TAKE LISINOPRIL TABLETS
DO NOT TAKE LISINOPRIL TABLETS
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If you are allergic to lisinopril, a similar medicine or any of the
other ingredients of this
medicine (listed in section 6). Signs of an allergic reaction include:
a rash, swallowing or
breathing problems, swelling of your lips, face, throat or tongue

If you are more than 3 months pregnant. (It is also better to avoid
Lisinopril in early
pregnancy - see section Pregnancy and breast-feeding).

If you su

Características técnicas

OBJECT 1
LISINOPRIL 10 MG TABLETS
Summary of Product Characteristics Updated 11-Nov-2015 | Lupin
Healthcare (UK) Ltd
1. Name of the medicinal product
Lisinopril 10 mg tablets
2. Qualitative and quantitative composition
Each uncoated tablet contains lisinopril dihydrate equivalent to 10 mg
of anhydrous Lisinopril.
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
3. Pharmaceutical form
Tablet
Pink, round tablets marked '10'on one side and scoreline on other
side.
The scoreline is only to facilitate breaking for ease of swallowing
and not to divide into equal doses.
4. Clinical particulars
4.1 Therapeutic indications
HYPERTENSION
Treatment of hypertension.
HEART FAILURE
Treatment of symptomatic heart failure.
ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Short-term (6 weeks) treatment of haemodynamically stable patients
within 24 hours of an acute
myocardial infarction.
RENAL COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES MELLITUS
Treatment of renal disease in hypertensive patients with Type 2
diabetes mellitus and incipient
nephropathy (see section 5.1).
4.2 Posology and method of administration
Lisinopril should be administered orally in a single daily dose. As
with all other medication taken once
daily, lisinopril should be taken at approximately the same time each
day. The absorption of Lisinopril
tablets is not affected by food.
The dose should be individualised according to patient profile and
blood pressure response (see section
4.4).
HYPERTENSION
Lisinopril may be used as monotherapy or in combination with other
classes of antihypertensive therapy
(see sections 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and 5.1).
Starting dose
In patients with hypertension the usual recommended starting dose is
10 mg. Patients with a strongly
activated renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (in particular,
renovascular hypertension, salt and /or
volume depletion, cardiac decompensation, or severe hypertension) may
experience an excessive blood
pressure fall following the initial dose. A starting dose of 2.5-5 mg
is recommended in such patients and
the initiation of treatment should take place u