INDICATIONS
Prazosin is within a group of drugs called alpha-adrenergic (AL-fa ad-ren-ER-jik) blockers. Prazosin relaxes your veins and arteries so that blood can more easily move through them.
Prazosin is utilized to treat hypertension (high blood pressure levels).
Prazosin could also be used for other purposes unpublished on this medication guide.
INSTRUCTIONS
Take the same manner prescribed by your doctor. Do not take in larger or smaller amounts or more than recommended. Follow the directions on the prescription label.
Your doctor may occasionally alter your dose to make sure you receive the best results.
Prazosin lowers blood pressure and might cause dizziness or fainting, especially when you first start taking it or when your dose is changed. Call your physician for those who have severe dizziness or seem like you could possibly pass out.
You may feel very dizzy when you first of all get up. Be careful when standing or sitting up from a lying position.
Your blood pressure level should be checked often. Visit a medical expert regularly.
Keep by using this medicine as directed, even if you feel well. High blood pressure levels often does not have any symptoms. You may need to use blood pressure levels medication through out your life.
Some things might cause your blood pressure level to get too low. This includes vomiting, diarrhea, heavy sweating, heart disease, dialysis, a low-salt diet, or taking diuretics (water pills). Tell a medical expert for those who have a prolonged illness that creates diarrhea or vomiting.
DOSAGE
Takethe medicine as prescribed from your doctor.
Usual Adult Dose for Congestive Heart Failure:
Initial dose: 1 mg orally 2-3 times a day.
Maintenance dose: 6-15 mg daily shown in divided doses.
Usual Adult Dose for Hypertension:
Initial dose: 1 mg orally 2-3 times a day.
Maintenance dose: 6-15 mg daily succumbed divided doses.
Usual Adult Dose for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia:
Initial dose: 1 mg orally 2-3 times every day.
Maintenance dose: 6-15 mg daily shown in divided doses.
STORAGE
Store at room temperature away from moisture and heat.
MORE INFO:
Active Ingredient: Prazosin
Alpha blocker: A drug that blocks receptors in arteries and smooth muscle. This action relaxes the arteries and brings about an increase in the circulation of blood along with a lower pressure to the control of hypertension. The action within the urinary tract enhances urinary flow in prostatic hypertrophy (enlarged prostate).
Get emergency medical help in case you have all of these indications of a hypersensitivity: hives; breathlessness; swelling of your respective face, lips, tongue, or throat. Call a medical expert simultaneously for those who have a serious side effect such as:
fast or pounding heartbeats or fluttering inside your chest;
feeling like you may distribute;
trouble breathing;
swelling with your hands, ankles, or feet; or
penis erection which is painful or lasts 4 hours or longer.
Less serious negative effects might include:
mild dizziness;
weakness, tired feeling, drowsiness;
headache; or
nausea.
This is not a complete listing of unwanted effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.
You should not use this medication if you're allergic to prazosin or similar medicines including alfuzosin (Uroxatral), doxazosin (Cardura), silodosin (Rapaflo), tamsulosin (Flomax), or terazosin (Hytrin). Prazosin could potentially cause dizziness or fainting, specially when you initially begin to take it or when your dose is changed. Be careful should you drive or do anything that will need you to definitely be alert. Avoid standing for long periods of time or becoming overheated during exercise plus hot weather. Avoid getting up too fast coming from a sitting or lying position, or else you can experience dizzy.
Prazosin could affect your pupils during cataract surgery. Tell your eye surgeon before hand you are employing this medication. Do not stop using prazosin before surgery unless your surgeon tells that you.
Tell your doctor about all the medications you use, especially other blood pressure levels medications including diuretics (water pills).
Prazosin may impair your opinions or reactions. Be careful in the event you drive or a single thing that needs one to be alert.
FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether prazosin will harm an baby. Tell a medical expert if you're pregnant or prefer to conceive while applying this medication. Prazosin can pass into breast milk and might harm a nursing baby. Do not use medicines without telling your physician if you are breast-feeding an infant.
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