Description
| Medicine | |
| Alchohol Interaction | Taking Metoprolol with alcohol may have additive effects in lowering your blood pressure. You may experience headache, dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, and/or changes in pulse or heart rate. |
| Pregnancy Interaction | Zycad Capsule is highly unsafe to use during pregnancy.Human and animal studies have shown significant adverse effects on the foetus. Please consult your doctor. |
| Lactation Interaction | Zycad Capsule is probably unsafe to use during lactation. \nLimited human data suggest that the drug could represent a significant risk to the baby. |
| Common Side Effect | Altered taste, Diarrhoea, Constipation, Muscle pain, Increased glucose level in blood, Increased potassium level in blood, Slow heart rate, Cold extremities, Stomach pain, Indigestion, Weakness, Dizziness, Headache, Increased liver enzymes, Cough, Decreased blood pressure, Numbness of extremity, Increased bleeding tendency. |
| How to Use | Take this medicine in the dose and duration as advised by your doctor. Swallow it as a whole. Do not chew, crush or break it. Zycad Capsule is to be taken with food.Taking it with food helps to avoid stomach upset. |
| Driving | Zycad Capsule may make you feel dizzy, drowsy or affect your vision. Do not drive until your vision is clear. |
| Kidney | Zycad Capsule should be used with caution in patients with kidney disease. Dose adjustment of Zycad Capsule may be needed. Please consult your doctor.Regular monitoring of blood pressure is recommended for dose adjustment. |
| Liver | Zycad Capsule should be used with caution in patients with liver disease. Dose adjustment of Zycad Capsule may be needed. Please consult your doctor. |
| Mechanism of action | Zycad Capsule is a combination of four medicines: atorvastatin, aspirin, ramipril and metoprolol which prevent heart attack and lower blood pressure. Atorvastatin is a lipid-lowering medication that blocks an enzyme required in the body to make cholesterol. It lowers the |
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