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Spiromide Tablet Substitute

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Verified Ingredients and Effects

Composition:

FUROSEMIDE-20MG + SPIRONOLACTONE-50MG

Uses:

Spiromide Tablet is used in the treatment of edema (fluid overload), and Hypertension (high blood pressure). The detailed uses of Spiromide Tablet are as follows: <br/>• Edema Treatment: Spiromide Tablet helps to treat edema by reducing excess fluid accumulation in the body's tissues, often associated with conditions like heart failure, liver cirrhosis, or kidney disorders.<br/>• Hypertension Management: Spiromide Tablet is used as an adjunct therapy to help manage hypertension by lowering blood pressure.<br/>• Potassium-Sparing Diuretic: Spiromide Tablet is a potassium-sparing diuretic that helps the body get rid of excess water and sodium while retaining potassium, supporting electrolyte balance.<br/>• Congestive Heart Failure: Spiromide Tablet helps to manage congestive heart failure by reducing fluid retention, alleviating symptoms, and improving quality of life and physical activity for patients.<br/>• Improvement in heart and kidney function: Spiromide Tablet helps to improve heart and kidney function by reducing excess fluid in the body, preventing complications like swelling, shortness of breath, and strain on the heart and kidneys.<br/>

Medicinal Benefits:

When you take Spiromide Tablet , it helps in losing out excess fluids from the body by increasing the production of urine. This reduces the workload on the heart and makes the heart more efficient at pumping blood throughout the body. Thus, it helps to lower high blood pressure, reducing the chances of heart attack or stroke. In addition, this relieves oedema and helps you carry out your daily activities more efficiently.

FAQs

Spiromide Tablet is used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure and oedema (fluid retention). It helps to remove excess water from the body.

Spiromide Tablet works by increasing the amount of urine that is passed out from the kidneys. It effectively reduces excess fluid levels in the body and treats oedema (swelling) associated with heart, liver, kidney, or lung disease. This reduces the workload on the heart and makes the heart more efficient at pumping blood throughout the body. Thus, it helps to lower high blood pressure, reducing the chances of heart attack, stroke or angina (chest pain) in future.

No, you are advised to inform your doctor and monitor your blood pressure for at least two weeks before stopping the medicine. Depending upon your current blood pressure readings, there is a possibility your doctor may lower your medicine dosage and not recommend to discontinue it.

You should closely monitor your blood pressure, renal function and electrolytes within 4-6 weeks of commencing therapy. Besides this, frequent checks of the potassium level are required in patients with kidney failure and with creatinine clearance below 60 ml/min per.

If your leg (foot, ankle) or any other body's part swelling, you need to visit any physician or cardiologist who could perform an ultrasound examination of your leg veins and an ultrasound of your heart (echocardiogram-ECG).

Store Spiromide Tablet at room temperature, in a dry place. Keep out of sight and reach of children.

Do not take Spiromide Tablet if you are allergic to any of its components, have low blood pressure (less than 90 mm of Hg), have had a heart attack, or have kidney disease (with creatinine clearance less than 30 mL/min). Besides this, it is contraindicated in cardiogenic shock (sudden stopping of blood flow to the heart), and aortic stenosis (heart valve problem).

Spiromide Tablet is a combination medicine used to treat oedema (fluid overload) and hypertension (high blood pressure).

Yes, Spiromide Tablet is safe if taken in the dose and duration prescribed by the doctor.

Spiromide Tablet may cause dizziness as a side effect. Do not drive or operate machinery if you experience dizziness.

Spiromide Tablet contains furosemide which may increase uric acid levels leading to gout. Consult the doctor if you experience sudden severe pain in a joint (usually your big toe).