Posts tagged with: tablets
Clopidogrel
Clopidogrel is an anti platelet drug that is used to prevent blood clots from forming. It is prescribed to patients who have a tendency to form blood clots in the fast flowing arteries and heart or possibly those who have recently had a heart attack or stroke. This drug... [Read more]
Doxazosin
Doxazosin is classed as a antihypertensive vasodilator drug that relieves hypertension (high blood pressure)it does its job by relaxing the blood vessels, the knock on effect allows blood and oxygen to circulate more easily around the body, lowering blood pressure and reducing... [Read more]
Antihypertensive Drugs
Your blood pressure is ascertained by a machine that takes two reading The first measurement is called the systolic pressure and is measured while the heart’s ventricles are contracting, this reading is normally higher than the second one which is known as the diastolic... [Read more]
Nystatin
This particular drug was developed at the New York State Institute of Health back in the early 1950′s and it was because of this fact that it was named Nystatin after the institute. Nystatin is an antifungal drug used to treat candidiasis the medical name for thrush,... [Read more]
Ciprofibrate
Ciprofibrate is used to lower high lipid (fat) levels in the blood (hyperlipidaemia). These lipids include cholesterol and triglycerides the medication itself belongs to a group of drugs known as fibrates. Apart from lowering low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol being... [Read more]
Dicycloverine (Dicyclomine)
Dicycloverine also known as dicyclomine is a mild anticholinergic antispasmodic drug which has direct muscle relaxant properties it is used in combination preparations that treat gastro-intestinal disorders such as constipation and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Dicycloverine... [Read more]
Rosiglitazone
Rosiglitazone is an anti-diabetic drug in the thiazolidinedione class of drugs and is used to treat type 2 diabetes known as non-insulin dependant diabetes mellitus. It’s function is to reduce insulin resistance in fatty tissue, the skeletal muscles and in the liver.... [Read more]
Cimetidine
Cimetidine has been around now since the 1970′s and falls into a family of drugs known as anti-ulcer drug. It works by reducing the secretion of gastric acid and of pepsin, an enzyme that helps with the digestion of protein. Normally the linings of the oesophagus the... [Read more]
Lansoprazole
Lansoprazole belongs to a group of drugs known as proton pump inhibitors and is used to treat certain conditions caused by too much acid being produced in the stomach. The drug is used to treat gastro-oesophageal reflux (stomach acid rises into the oesophagus causing irritation),... [Read more]
Anastrozole
Anastrozole is a white drug used to treat breast cancer after surgery and for metastases (The spread of cancer from one part of the body to another). Anastrozole is an aromatase inhibitor, which means that it interrupts a critical step in the body’s synthesis of estrogen.... [Read more]
