The preparation "Kapoten": instructions for use

The drug "Kapoten" is used to treat hypertension and heart failure.

Pharmacological effects of the drug "Kapoten" instructions for use describes as follows: this substance is able to expand and veins and arteries, the latter in a greater degree. It increases renal and coronary blood flow. In the case of long-term use of this drug, the degree of hypertrophy of the walls of the resistive type of arteries and myocardium decreases. A sustained antihypertensive effect is achieved after several weeks of taking the drug.

Indications for the prescription of the drug "Kapoten" the application instruction lists such: in case of moderate and mild hypertension, as an additional means for joint use with thiazide diuretics, in case the effect of using only thiazide preparations is insufficient. Also with the development of severe hypertension, in the event that the standard treatment scheme did not bring the desired result. The drug "Kapoten" is indicated for therapy in the treatment of certain types of heart failure. It is used together with diuretics and, if necessary, with digitalis preparations.

Methods of application of the drug "Kapoten" instruction on the application gives such: when hypertension therapy begins with a minimum effective dose. For mild and moderate degrees of disease, the initial dose of the drug is twelve and a half milligrams twice a day. The maintenance dose is twenty-five milligrams twice a day. Its increase is carried out in stages, at intervals of two to four weeks, before the desired effect is achieved - up to the maximum dose, which is fifty milligrams twice a day. With severe hypertension, the initial dose is twelve and a half milligrams twice a day, and the dose is also increased to fifty milligrams three times a day, together with other antihypertensive drugs, selecting their dose for each patient individually. Do not exceed the daily dose of "Kapoten" in one hundred and fifty milligrams per day.

With heart failure, the drug "Kapoten" is acceptable to use under the condition of careful medical control. Assign it should be in case the diuretic can not remove the symptoms. Usually the maintenance dose is twenty-five milligrams twice or even three times a day. Increase it step by step - at least for two weeks, until the effect is obtained. The maximum dose of the drug per day is one hundred and fifty milligrams. It is prescribed together with diuretics and, when necessary, with digitalis.

To appoint elderly patients with the drug "Kapoten" the instruction for use recommends the minimum possible doses that are sufficient to achieve the result, selecting them in strict dependence on changes in the level of blood pressure. Care must be taken to control liver function.

This drug is recommended for use only for older children, and then under careful medical supervision. The initial dose should not exceed three tenths of a gram per kilogram of weight, up to the maximum allowed dose, which is six milligrams per kilogram of weight per day divided into several doses.

Patients who have impaired liver function, this drug is not recommended, but, in case of emergency, it is possible. But the dose is selected strictly individually and is assigned at the lowest possible level.

Side effect of the drug "Kapoten" are anemia, thrombocytopenia, neuropathy from the circulatory system, from the kidneys - increased levels of potassium, creatinine, urea, the appearance of urine protein, the development of acidosis. From the side of the circulatory system - tachycardia and hypotension. The skin can respond with the appearance of rashes, accompanied by itching, sometimes having the character of urticaria, the development of photosensitivity.