R AURONAL table. 10 mg. 30 tablets

What Auronal and what it is used?

The active ingredient of Auronal, felodipine belongs to a group of medicines called calcium channel blockers. It works by widening blood vessels, lowers blood pressure, which is also important in the treatment of angina.

Your doctor may prescribe Auronal if you suffer from high blood pressure or angina.

Before taking Auronal

Do not take Auronal:

 If you are allergic to felodipine or any of the ingredients of Auronal

 If you are pregnant or breast-feeding

 The drug should not be given to children

Take special care with Auronal:

If you have severe heart disease or hypertension, Auronal may be suitable for you. If you are unsure about your condition or medications you are taking, ask your doctor for advice.

Taking other medicines:

Please note that the potential for drug interactions may also apply to medicines taken some time ago or to be taken in the future.

Cimetidine, erythromycin, phenytoin, barbiturates, or karbomazepin may affect your treatment Auronal. Make sure your doctor knows if you are taking any of the above medications, since you may need to reduce or increase the dose of Auronal.

Taking Auronal with food and drink

Grapefruit juice can affect the operation of some calcium antagonists such Auronal - this is important, so you should not drink grapefruit juice while you are taking your tablets.

Pregnancy and lactation

Do not take this medicine if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

Driving and using machines:

If you feel dizzy after taking this medicine, you should not drive or operate machinery. This is particularly true for the beginning of treatment or after a dose increase.

Important information about some of the ingredients of Auronal:

Each prolonged-release tablet contains 2.5 mg 25.20 mg lactose, 5 mg tablet contains 23.95 mg lactose 10 mg tablet contains 21.45 mg lactose, respectively.

How to take Auronal?

If you take Auronal to treat high blood pressure, the usual dose for adults is 5 mg taken in the morning. Your doctor may prescribe a starting dose of 2.5 mg or may increase your dose to 10 mg once daily.

If you take Auronal to treat angina usual dose is 5 mg in the morning. Your doctor may increase the dose to 10 mg.

Swallow the tablets whole with water. Do not crush or chew the tablets.

Symptoms:

major expansion of peripheral blood vessels with marked hypotension, sometimes associated with bradycardia. Treatment is symptomatic. If appropriate or shown may be administered activated charcoal, emesis or gastric lavage. In severe hypotension the patient should be placed supine with the legs elevated. Bradycardia responded with otropin 0.5 to 1 mg intravenously. If these measures are not sufficient, plasma volume can be increased by infusion of glucose, saline or dextran. If it still does not work, you can give simpotomimetitsi, effective primarily on alpha1-adrenoceptors.

Possible side effects:

If any of these side effects occur, stop taking Auronal and immediately contact your doctor:

 Swelling of the lips or throat, causing difficulty in swallowing or breathing, fainting.

These side effects are very serious but rare priyavyavat. If you get them, you may have a serious allergic reaction to Auronal.

You may need urgent medical attention.

Not all adverse reactions develop in patients taking this medicine. Some of these may occur during the adoption of Auronal, especially at the beginning of treatment or after a dose increase:

 Swelling of the ankles,

 A feeling of warmth, tiredness, weakness, palpitations, dizziness,

 Heartburn, nausea, constipation

 Skin rash, "tingling"

Also, some people may experience:

 Increased heart rate, dry mouth, upset stomach, joint pain, anxiety, itching, swollen gums.

Additional Information:

Active ingredient: Each prolonged-release tablet of 2.5 mg, 5 mg, 10 mg contains 2.5-mg, 5 mg, 10 mg felodipine.

Excipients: lactose monohydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, hypromellose, povidone, propilgalat, colloidal anhydrous silica, magnesium stearate.

Auronal 2.5 mg film-coated shell contains: hypromellose ferric oxide yellow, titanium dioxide, talc, propylene glycol

Auronal 5 mg, 10 mg film-coated shell contains: hypromellose, iron oxide red, iron oxide yellow, titanium dioxide, talc, propylene glycol.