Bisoprolol: instructions for use

The drug "Bisoprolol-Prana" is a 10 milligram tablets, which are covered with food. One tablet of this drug contains 5 mg of bisoprolol fumarate, which is the main active substance.

In addition, as auxiliary, the drug contains impellose, povidone, starch, aerosil, talc, microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate. Components of the tablet shell are polyvinyl alcohol, titanium dioxide, iron oxide dye , talc, macrogol.

It is sold in packs of 30 tablets.

Pharmacological action of the drug "Bisoprolol" instructions for use describes this way. This drug has properties that ensure its anti-anginal, anti-arrhythmic, and also effective antihypertensive effect. Therefore, the main indications for his appointment are such diseases as arterial hypertension, various types of arrhythmias, angina pectoris. As an effective therapeutic drug used for the treatment and prevention of moderate cardiac insufficiency and in the post-infarction period.

Contraindications to the use of the drug are the patient's hypersensitivity to the components of the drug, diagnosed sinus bradycardia, cardiogenic shock, cardiac and respiratory failure in severe disease. The use of the drug during pregnancy and in the lactation period should be commensurate with the degree of possibility of occurrence of risks caused by its use. Otherwise, it may pose a threat to the development of the fetus or a child who is not born. If the drug was administered by a woman in the period of less than two to three days before delivery, it is necessary to carry out special medical monitoring of the baby's condition.

The drug "Bisoprolol" instructions for use recommends not taking liquid, as a rule, in the morning before meals or during the morning meal, drink tablets with a small amount of water. The daily dose of a single dose is 1.25-10 milligrams. If necessary, the dose can be increased, but only with constant monitoring of the patient's pulse and pressure.

Depending on the nature of the disease, the dose of taking the medicine varies. So, with arterial hypertension, it equals 5-10 mg, 1.25 mg for chronic insufficiency. Treatment is carried out for seven days. With the normal tolerability of the drug, the treatment is continued according to the scheme, which is detailed in the instructions for use of the drug. However, it should be borne in mind that the maximum dose of medication per day can not exceed 20 milligrams.

In the preparation "Bisoprolol" instructions for use indicate the following possible side effects. In this case, it should be borne in mind that their manifestation, described in the instruction, applies only to cases when the dose of taking the medicine did not exceed 40 milligrams.

Side effects are observed on the part of various systems of the body, for example, from the nervous system these are dizziness, depression, anxiety, less often hallucinations and thinking disorders, visual disorders.

From the digestive tract, the most frequent phenomena are diarrhea, nausea, various dyspeptic phenomena. Possible rash, allergic reactions to skin, dermatitis. When treatment with the drug "Bisoprolol" instructions for use indicate the possibility of headaches and pains in the epicentral region, involuntary weight gain.

Drug interaction of the drug is characterized as follows. If you take the drug "Bisoprolol" with amiodarone, verapamil, alpha-methyldofoy, quinidine drugs, then there is a risk of violations of automatism, and heart contractility increases. Incompatible drug with MAO inhibitors.

In case of overdosage, it is recommended to do gastric lavage, administer to the patient adsorptive preparations (atropine), sedative and cardiotonic drugs (epinephrine, diazepam, lorazepam, etc.), as well as cardiac glycosides. In the event of cardiac arrest, transvenous stimulation is urgently needed.