Lopaz plus: the instruction, analogues, recommendations

Today, there are many different drugs for the treatment of hypertension. Each of them has its own characteristics, it is recommended to those or other categories of patients. However, there is a drug that specialists are increasingly prescribed to a variety of people. Doctors are confident in the quality of this medicine, the possibility of its wide application. This drug is called "Lopaz plus" and is a combined remedy. In international pharmacology, this drug is known as "Losartan + Hydrochlorothiazide."

What is the use of the drug "Lopaz plus"? The instruction recommends the use of this medicine for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure).

The agent is a tablet coated with a coating. Its active substances are potassium losartan and hydrochlorothiazide. The first acts as a blocker of angiotensin II, the second - as a diuretic. Together, these substances make the drug "Lozap plus" a mild hypotensive (pressure-lowering) drug. It is shown mainly to elderly patients and people with constantly increased blood pressure.

Most often the recommended dose is a tablet a day. In especially serious cases, you can take two tablets a day. The maximum and sustained action of the drug "Lozap plus" instruction promises three weeks after the start of systematic treatment.

Like all tablets, this drug has many contraindications. The medicine for "Lozap plus" pressure is not prescribed for lactating women, pregnant women, patients with impaired liver or kidneys. It is contraindicated to people suffering from hypovolemia (a decrease in blood volume) and to those who take many diuretics. Suffering anuria (lack of urination), too, you can not take the tool "Lopaz plus."

The instruction to the drug warns that the tablets can cause side effects. An angioneurotic edema of the face or neck may occur, dizziness, too sudden a drop in pressure. Perhaps increased urination, the emergence of tachycardia.

To the benefit of the treatment has surpassed the possible side unwanted effects of the drug "Lozap plus", the instruction insists on this, without advice from a doctor, medicine can not be taken.

Because the drug acts rather gently, the elderly are selected individually: usually enough recommendations in the instructions to the drug. In addition, it can be taken together with other diuretic and antihypertensive medications. However, it is very cautious to do it. Taking several drugs at the same time can increase the amount of urea and creatinine in the plasma, especially in people with kidney disease. In addition, against a background of joint administration, there may be an increase in cholesterol, hyperuricemia (excess uric acid in the blood), gout.

These unpleasant phenomena once again confirm that the drug "Lopaz Plus" is allowed to be taken only after a thorough examination by a doctor.

In general, this drug reduces blood pressure well, retains a healing effect for a long time.

The medicine "Lopaz plus", which is produced in the Czech Republic, has analogues. These are drugs that have a similar effect but are released in other countries: Gisaar Fort is produced in the UK, Lorista N in Slovenia, Vazotens N in Iceland.

The active substance of all these drugs is the same potassium losartan.

Since all these drugs are different in price, in the pharmacies of large cities instead of a drug prescribed by a doctor can recommend its cheaper analog. In principle, such a replacement is not forbidden. However, before purchasing a substitute or analogue, you need to consult, at least by phone, with your doctor.

Despite the fact that all of the above analogs of the drug "Lopaz plus" are approximately the same, they can have different effects on people with different "set" of diseases. Since only the attending physician knows the characteristics of his patients, the last word in the selection of medications remains for him.