Zestril 20mg tablets

Quốc gia: Vương quốc Anh

Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh

Nguồn: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)

Thành phần hoạt chất:

Lisinopril

Sẵn có từ:

CST Pharma Ltd

Mã ATC:

C09AA03

INN (Tên quốc tế):

Lisinopril

Liều dùng:

20mg

Dạng dược phẩm:

Oral tablet

Tuyến hành chính:

Oral

Lớp học:

No Controlled Drug Status

Loại thuốc theo toa:

Valid as a prescribable product

Tóm tắt sản phẩm:

BNF: 02050501; GTIN: 5055946806730

Tờ rơi thông tin

PACKAGE LEAFLET: INFORMATION FOR THE PATIENT
ZESTRIL
®
20MG TABLETS
(lisinopril)
Your medicine is known as the above but will be referred to as
Zestril throughout the remainder of this leaflet.
This product is available in multiple strengths and all strengths will
be referred to throughout this leaflet.
READ ALL OF THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TAKING THIS
MEDICINE BECAUSE IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOU.

Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.

If you have any further questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

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.

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 Zestril is and what it is used for
2.
What you need to know before you take Zestril
3.
How to take Zestril
4.
Possible side effects
5.
How to store Zestril
6.
Contents of the pack and other information
1.
WHAT ZESTRIL IS AND WHAT IT IS USED FOR
Zestril contains a medicine called lisinopril. This belongs to a group
of medicines called ACE inhibitors.
Zestril can be used for the following conditions:

To treat high blood pressure (hypertension).

To treat heart failure.

If you have recently had a heart attack (myocardial infarction).

To treat kidney problems caused by Type II diabetes in people
with high blood pressure.
Zestril works by making your blood vessels widen.
This helps to lower your blood pressure. It also makes it easier for
your heart to pump blood to all parts of your body.
2.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU TAKE ZESTRIL
DO NOT TAKE ZESTRIL:

if you are allergic to lisinopril or any of the other ingredients of
this medicine (listed in section 6).

if you have ever had an allergic reaction to another ACE inhibitor
medicine. The allergic reaction may have caused swelling of the
h

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SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
1
NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT
Zestril 20mg tablets
2
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION
Each tablet contains lisinopril dihydrate equivalent to 20 mg
anhydrous lisinopril.
For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
3
PHARMACEUTICAL FORM
20mg tablets: round, brownish-red, uncoated, biconvex tablet with “
♥
20” on
one side and plain on the other side. Diameter 8mm.
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
Zestril should be administered orally in a single daily dose. As with
all
other medication taken once daily, Zestril should be taken at
approximately
the same time each day. The absorption of Zestril tablets is not
affected by
food.
The dose should be individualised according to patient profile and
blood
pressure response (see section 4.4).
HYPERTENSION
Zestril 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 under medical supervision. A lower starting dose is
required in the presence of renal impairment (see Table 1 below).
Maintenance dose
The usual effective maintenanc