Blood Pressure/Cholesterol

Norvask (amlodipine)

Norvasc may also be used for other purposes than those listed here Hidi treatment. Norvasc is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension), angina (chest pain).

Talk with your doctor before using salt substitutes containing potassium. If your doctor low-salt or low sodium diet, follow these instructions carefully. Norvasc is taken orally as tablets. This is usually once a day. Pfizer may cause stomach discomfort. The Norvasc with food or milk.

These drugs block the transport of calcium into cells, smooth muscle lining of coronary and other arteries of the body. Muscle relaxation other parts of the body wall of blood vessels to lower blood pressure, reduce the load on the heart as it pumps blood to the body. Amlodipine belongs to a class of drugs called calcium channel blockers. By relaxing coronary arteries, amlodipine is to help prevent chest pain (angina) caused by coronary artery spasm. Reduce the burden on the heart, reducing heart muscle oxygen demand and further help to prevent heart disease in patients with angina pectoris. Since calcium plays an important role in muscle contraction, blocking calcium transport arteries to relax muscles, and to expand the coronary arteries and other arteries of the body.

To missing doses as long as you remember. Do not take a double dose of the drug. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the dose and missing only the drug in the future.

Bottles stored in a controlled room temperature 59 to 86 degrees F (15 ° to 30 ° C) and dispense in tight, svitlostiykyh container.

Do not take this medication without consulting your doctor if you are pregnant or may become pregnant during treatment. You take Norvasc, tell your doctor if you have liver disease, or other heart disease or blood vessels, such as sick sinus syndrome, aortic stenosis, heart failure, low blood pressure, or coronary artery disease. It is not known whether Norvasc will enter the breast milk. Norvasc in the FDA pregnancy category C, which means to know whether Norvasc will be harmful to the fetus. You may not be able to participate in Norvasc, or in need of correction dose or special monitoring during treatment if you have any of these diseases. Do not take this medication without consulting your doctor, if you give your precious children.