Monopril - Thailand Medical News
Everyone has blood pressure. This pressure helps get your blood all around your body. Your blood pressure may be different at different times of the day, depending on how busy or worried you are. If you have hypertension (high blood pressure), this means that your blood pressure stays higher than is needed, even when you are relaxed.
MONOPRIL contains fosinopril sodium. Fosinopril sodium belongs to a class of medicines known as ACE inhibitors. It works by widening your blood vessels, reducing the pressure in the vessels (reducing 'blood pressure') and by making it easier for your heart to pump blood around your body. This helps your heart to work better by increasing the supply of oxygen to your heart.
MONOPRIL is available only with a doctor's prescription.
you have taken any other 'ACE inhibitor' medicine before, which caused your face, lips, tongue, throat, hands or feet to swell up or made it hard for you to breathe.
take any other medicines or drugs including any immunosuppressant medicine
Some medicines can affect the way MONOPRIL works. It is especially important that you tell your doctor if you are taking any of the following:
anti-inflammatory medicines (these are used to relieve pain, swelling and other symptoms of inflammation, including arthritis) and include nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents - NSAIDs (for example Voltaren, Indocid) and COX-2 inhibitors (for example Celebrex).Taking a combination of Monopril with a thiazide diuretic (fluid tablet) and an anti-inflammatory medicine may damage your kidneys.
MONOPRIL helps most people with high blood pressure, but it may have unwanted side effects in a few people. All medicines can have side effects. Sometimes they are serious, most of the time they are not. You may need medical treatment if you get some of the side effects.
These are the more common side effects of MONOPRIL. (Mostly these are mild and short lived).
These are serious side effects. You may need medical attention. Serious side effects are rare.
These are very serious side effects. You may need urgent medical attention or hospitalisation
Do not store MONOPRIL or any other medicine in the bathroom or near a sink. Do not leave it in the car on hot days or on window sills.
MONOPRIL 10mg tablets -
White biconvex, diamond shaped tablet and marked on one side and with a star design and on the other side '158 Each carton contains 30 tablets.
MONOPRIL 10mg tablets - 10mg fosinopril sodium per tablet
MONOPRIL tablets also contain anhydrous lactose, microcrystalline cellulose, crospovidone, povidone and sodium stearyl fumarate.