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Furosemide, sold under the brand name Lasix among others, is a loop diuretic medication used to treat edema due to heart failure, liver scarring, or kidney disease. [4] Furosemide may also be used for the treatment of high blood pressure. [4] It can be taken intravenously or orally. [4]
Lercanidipine is generally well tolerated; no single adverse effect has been observed in more than 1% of patients treated with this drug. Typical side effects are similar to those of other drugs of this class and include headache, dizziness, tachycardia (fast heartbeat), palpitations, flush, and oedema.
Diuretics such as furosemide have a direct toxic effect on the pancreas. Meanwhile, thiazide diuretics cause hypertriglyceridemia and hypercalcemia, where the latter is the risk factor for pancreatic stones. [citation needed] HIV infection itself can cause a person to be more likely to get pancreatitis.
Dementia prevention is a critical area of research, as experts want to understand what people can do to decrease dementia risk. A recent study found that more than 5 years of taking medications ...
Everyone has a different reaction to stress. But if you find that you’re running to the bathroom when you’re feeling frazzled or under pressure, you may wonder if stress can cause diarrhea.
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a sudden inflammation of the pancreas.Causes include a gallstone impacted in the common bile duct or the pancreatic duct, heavy alcohol use, systemic disease, trauma, elevated calcium levels, hypertriglyceridemia (with triglycerides usually being very elevated, over 1000 mg/dL), certain medications, hereditary causes and, in children, mumps.
Measures to remove potassium from the body include diuretics such as furosemide, potassium-binders such as polystyrene sulfonate (Kayexalate) and sodium zirconium cyclosilicate, and hemodialysis. [1] Hemodialysis is the most effective method. [3] Hyperkalemia is rare among those who are otherwise healthy. [6]
Physicians during the 20th century believed that a fever/rash complex suggested the risk of severe side effects for the next upcoming doses if treatment was not halted. Warkany and Hubbard noted in their seminal 1953 paper establishing mercury as the cause of infantile acrodynia that "... in modern times the capricious behavior of mercurial ...