Dezide 25 mg+50 mg (Tablet)

Unit Price: ৳ 5.00 (10 x 10: ৳ 500.00)
Strip Price: ৳ 50.00

Medicine Details

Category Details
Generic Hydrochlorothiazide triamterene
Company Eskayef pharmaceuticals ltd

Title

  • Dezide Medication

Categories

  • Hypertension Medication
  • Diuretic
  • Antihypertensive Medication

Description

  • Used to treat high blood pressure
  • Combination of triamterene and hydrochlorothiazide
  • Reduces extra fluid in the body
  • Affects renal tubular mechanisms of electrolyte reabsorption
  • Increases excretion of sodium and chloride
  • Causes increased urine production
  • Used for edema caused by heart failure, liver disease, or kidney disease

Color Options

  • N/A

Dimensions

  • N/A

Functions

  • Lowers high blood pressure
  • Prevents strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems
  • Reduces symptoms such as shortness of breath and swelling in ankles or feet

Materials

  • Active ingredients: triamterene, hydrochlorothiazide

Technical Specifications

  • Tablet contains Hydrochlorothiazide 25 mg and Triamterene 50 mg
  • Max daily dosage: 4 tablets

Design Elements

  • N/A

Usability Features

  • Administration by mouth
  • Best taken once daily in the morning with or without food
  • Dosage adjusted according to response
  • Must be taken regularly for best results
  • Stored at 20-25°C and protected from light

Potential Side Effects

  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhoea
  • Dizziness
  • Weakness
  • Hypotension
  • Headache
  • Muscle cramps
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Rash
  • Metabolic acidosis
  • Pancreatitis
  • SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)
  • Photosensitivity

Pregnancy & Lactation Category

  • Category C

Precautions & Warnings

  • Patients with prediabetes or DM
  • Diabetic nephropathy
  • Predisposition to gout
  • History of renal lithiasis
  • Hepatic or renal impairment

Overdose Effects

  • Symptoms: Electrolyte imbalance, nausea, vomiting, weakness, polyuria, lassitude, fever, flushed face, hyperactive deep tendon reflexes, hypotension, cardiac arrhythmias
  • Management: Induce immediate evacuation through emesis or gastric lavage, Pressor agents e.g. norepinephrine may be given in case of hypotension

Interactions

  • May reduce the renal clearance of lithium
  • May antagonize diuretic effect with NSAIDs, corticosteroids, estrogens, combined OCs
  • Enhanced effect with other hypotensive agents, baclofen, tizanidine
  • May decrease arterial responsiveness to norepinephrine
  • Increases responsiveness to tubocurarine
  • Risk of acute renal failure with indomethacin
  • Increased risk of hyperkalemia with reboxetine, tacrolimus
  • Increased risk of ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity with platinum compounds (e.g. cisplatin)

Contraindications

  • Hyperkalemia (≥5.5 mEq/L)
  • Hypercalcemia
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis
  • Addison’s disease
  • Progressive renal failure
  • Increasing hepatic dysfunction
  • Concomitant use with K supplements, other K-conserving drugs, including ACE inhibitors

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