Today, there are many completely different drugs for treating high blood pressure. Each of them has its own characteristics, it is recommended to one or another category of patients. However, there is a drug that experts are increasingly prescribing to a variety of people. Doctors are confident in the quality of this medication, the possibility of its widespread use. This drug is called "Lozap Plus" and is a combination agent. In international pharmacology, this medicine is known as "Losartan + Hydrochlorothiazide."
What is the drug "Lozap Plus" for? The instruction recommends the use of this medicine for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure).
The tool is a coated tablet. Its active ingredients are losartan potassium 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 antihypertensive (pressure-lowering) drug. It is indicated mainly for elderly patients and people with constantly high blood pressure.
Most often, the recommended dose is a tablet per day. In especially serious cases, you can take two tablets per day. The instruction promises maximum and lasting effect of the drug "Lozap plus" three weeks after the start of systematic treatment.
Like all tablets, this drug has many contraindications. The medicine for pressure "Lozap plus" is not prescribed for lactating women, pregnant women, patients with impaired liver or kidney. It is contraindicated for people suffering from hypovolemia (a decrease in blood volume) and those who take a lot of diuretics. Suffering from anuria (lack of urination) also can not take the drug "Lozap plus."
The instruction for the drug warns that tablets can cause side effects. Angioedema of the face or neck, dizziness, too sharp decrease in pressure may occur. Perhaps increased urination, the occurrence of tachycardia.
In order for the benefits of the treatment to exceed the possible undesirable side effects of the drug "Lozap Plus", the instructions insist on this, you can not take the medicine without consulting a doctor.
Since the drug acts quite gently, the elderly choose an individual dose: usually the recommendations in the instructions for the drug are enough. In addition, it can be taken in conjunction with other diuretic and antihypertensive drugs. However, it is worth doing very carefully. Taking several drugs at the same time can increase the amount of urea and creatinine in plasma, especially in people suffering from kidney diseases. In addition, against the background of co-administration, there may be an increase in cholesterol, hyperuricemia (excessive uric acid in the blood), gout.
These unpleasant phenomena once again confirm that the drug "Lozap plus" is allowed to be taken only after a thorough examination by a doctor.
In general, this medication well reduces blood pressure, maintains a therapeutic effect for a long time.
The drug "Lozap Plus", which is produced in the Czech Republic, has analogues. These are drugs that have a similar effect, but released in other countries: Gizaar Forte 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, then in pharmacies of large cities, instead of the drug prescribed by the doctor, they can recommend its cheaper analogue. Such a replacement is in principle not forbidden. However, before buying a substitute or analogue, you must consult, at least by phone, with your doctor.
Despite the fact that all of the above analogues of the drug "Lozap Plus" act approximately the same, they can have different effects on people with a different "set" of diseases. Since only the attending physician knows the features of his patients, the last word in the selection of medicines remains with him.