Purchase a battery-powered or hand-crank NOAA radio in the Red Cross Store. 1  Keep handy a pair of goggles and a dust mask for each member of your household in case of ashfall. 2  Ensure that every member of your family carries a Safe and Well wallet card. 3  Talk to you insurance agent.
13 Jun 2011. The half life of Metoprolol is between 3 and 7 hours. This is the time it takes for the drug levels in your plasma to reduce by half. For a drug to be totally eliminated from your system it takes around 5.5 times the half life. As an estimate then, after taking a dose of Metoprolol it should be out of your system within 16.5 to 38.5 hours.
A lower blood pressure can reduce the risk of strokes and heart attacks. Metoprolol is also used to treat severe chest pain (angina) and lowers the risk of repeated heart attacks. It is given to people who have already had a heart attack. In addition, metoprolol is used to treat patients with heart failure. This medicine is a beta-blocker. It works by affecting the response to nerve impulses in certain parts of the body, like the heart. As a result, the heart beats slower and decreases the blood pressure.