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SOTALOL Sotalol Hydrochloride 80 Mg and 160 Mg Tablets NEW ZEALAND CONSUMER MEDICINE INFORMATION SOTALOL Sotalol hydrochloride 80 mg and 160 mg tablets This medicine is available only with Do not take this medicine after What is in this leaflet a doctor’s prescription. the expiry date printed on the pack or if the packaging is torn or Please read this leaflet carefully There is no evidence that shows signs of tampering. before you start taking SOTALOL. SOTALOL is addictive. If it has expired or is damaged, return it to your pharmacist for This leaflet answers some common disposal. questions about SOTALOL. Before you take SOTALOL If you are not sure whether you It does not contain all the available should start taking this medicine, information. It does not take the talk to your doctor. place of talking to your doctor or When you must not take pharmacist. it Before you start to take it All medicines have risks and Do not take SOTALOL if you have benefits. Your doctor has weighed an allergy to: Tell your doctor if you have the risks of you taking SOTALOL allergies to any other medicines, against the benefits they expect it any medicine containing sotalol foods, preservatives or dyes. will have for you. hydrochloride any of the ingredients listed at Tell your doctor if you have or If you have any concerns about the end of this leaflet have had any of the following taking this medicine, ask your medical conditions: doctor or pharmacist. Some of the symptoms of an allergic reaction may include: irregular heart rate or beat Keep this leaflet with the shortness of breath; wheezing or plan to have surgery, as some medicine. You may need to read it difficulty breathing; swelling of the anaesthesia are not to be again. face, lips, tongue or other parts of used together with sotalol the body; rash, itching or hives on kidney problems the skin. diabetes What SOTALOL is overactive thyroid Do not take SOTALOL if: phaeochromocytoma (a rare used for tumour of the adrenal gland) you have certain heart which is not already being SOTALOL is used to prevent and conditions such as uncontrolled treated with other medicines treat an irregular heart rhythm or heart failure or an enlarged blood vessel disorders beat, also called arrhythmia. heart causing poor circulation in the you have low levels of arms and legs SOTALOL tablets contain the active potassium or magnesium in recent heart attack or other ingredient sotalol hydrochloride. It your blood. heart conditions belongs to a group of medicines you suffer or have ever suffered certain type of angina called known as beta-blockers. from asthma, wheezing, Prinzmetal’s angina difficulty breathing or other lung severe diarrhoea or any It works by changing the body's problems illness that may affect response to some nerve impulses, you have kidney problems potassium or magnesium especially in the heart. As a result, it you have a very slow heart beat levels in the blood. helps the heart to beat more that is less than 50 beats per psoriasis regularly. minute or a fast irregular heart beat Tell your doctor if you are Your doctor may have prescribed you are receiving emergency pregnant or plan to become this medicine for another reason. treatment for shock or severely pregnant or are breast-feeding. low blood pressure. Your doctor can discuss with you Ask your doctor if you have any You have low blood pressure. the risks and benefits involved. questions about why this You have a serious electrolyte medicine has been prescribed for disorder which is an imbalance If you have not told your doctor you. in the body's acid-base balance. about any of the above, tell them Page 1 of 4 before you start taking different amounts of your will have the best effect. It will also SOTALOL. medicines, or you may need to take help you remember when to take it. different medicines. Taking other medicines Take your medicine on an empty Drinking alcohol affects how well stomach, preferably 1 to 2 hours Tell your doctor or pharmacist if SOTALOL works. Because of this before meals. you are taking any other you should restrict your alcohol Food can interfere with the medicines, including medicines consumption as much as you can. absorption of this medicine. that you buy without a prescription from your pharmacy, Your doctor and pharmacist have How long to take it supermarket or health food shop. more information on medicines to be careful with or avoid while taking Continue taking your medicine You should also tell any health this medicine. for as long as your doctor tells professional who is prescribing a you. new medication for you that you are This medicine helps to control your taking SOTALOL. condition, but does not cure it. It is important to keep taking your Some medicines may interfere with How to take medicine even if you feel well. SOTALOL. These include: SOTALOL Do not abruptly stop taking sotalol insulin and oral hypoglycaemics unless you are closely monitored by (medicines used to treat Follow all directions given to you your doctor. It is recommended that diabetes) by your doctor or pharmacist sotalol be reduced gradually over a anaesthetics e.g. chloroform or carefully. period of 8-14 days if sotalol needs cyclopropane They may differ from the information to be stopped and during time the some medicines used for contained in this leaflet. patient’s progress is assessed asthma, such as terbutaline and salbutamol If you do not understand the If you forget to take it calcium channel blockers, a instructions on the bottle, ask group of medicines used to your doctor or pharmacist for If you forget a dose, skip the treat high blood pressure, help. dose you missed and take your angina and other heart next dose when you are meant to. conditions How much to take clonidine Do not take a double to make up for the dose that you missed. catecholamine-depleting agents Your doctor will tell you how much e.g. resperidone or SOTALOL you need to take each guanethidine day. It is important that you take If you are not sure what to do, ask your doctor or pharmacist. certain other medicines used to SOTALOL as directed by your treat an irregular heart beat or doctor. Do not take more than the rhythm, such as quinidine, recommended dose. If you have trouble remembering to disopyramide, flecainide, take your medicine, ask your mexiletine and amiodarone The dose of SOTALOL varies from pharmacist for some hints. patient to patient. Your doctor will potassium depleting diuretics decide the right dose for you. digoxin, a medicine used to treat heart failure and fast While you are taking For adults the usual starting dose of irregular heart beats SOTALOL is 80mg twice daily. Your SOTALOL some medicines used to treat doctor may change this dose depression including the depending on how well you respond tricyclic antidepressants Things you must do to the treatment. terfenadine and astemizole, If you are being treated for diabetes, medicines used for treating The safety and efficacy of sotalol make sure you check your blood allergy has not been established in children sugar level regularly. SOTALOL some groups of antibiotics (e.g. and adolescents up to 18 years may affect how well your diabetes is sparfloxacin and erythromycin), controlled. It may also cover up some lipid reducing medicines some of the symptoms of low blood (probucol) How to take it sugar (also called hypoglycaemia) some drugs used to treat Swallow the tablets whole with a such as a fast heartbeat. SOTALOL malaria (halofantrine) full glass of water. may also make low blood sugar last Some medicines used to treat longer. Your doctor may need to urinary frequency and When to take it change your dose of diabetic incontinence (terodiline) medicines, including insulin. Take your medicine at about the These medicines may be affected same time each day. If you are about to be started on by SOTALOL or may affect how Taking it at the same time each day any new medicine, tell your well it works. You may need Page 2 of 4 doctor and pharmacist that you standing up, get up slowly. chest pain, slow heart rate, are taking SOTALOL. Standing up slowly, especially when palpitations, low blood you get up from bed or chairs, will pressure Tell any other doctors, dentists, help your body get used to the shortness of breath, and pharmacists who treat you change in position and blood difficulty in breathing that you are taking this medicine. pressure. If this problem continues tiredness, lack of energy, or gets worse, talk to your doctor. weakness If you are going to have surgery, headache, fever tell the surgeon or anaesthetist Tell your doctor if you develop a cramps that you are taking this medicine. skin rash or hives while taking irritated eyes, blurred It may affect other medicines used SOTALOL. If you have a history of vision, worsening of during surgery. allergies, there is a chance that eyesight, increased allergic reactions are worse and sensitivity of the eyes to If you become pregnant while harder to treat due to treatment with sunlight, eye infections taking this medicine, tell your SOTALOL. feeling sick, vomiting, doctor immediately. stomach upset, diarrhoea, wind If you are about to have any In case of overdose change in taste sensation blood tests, tell your doctor that anxiety, depression, mood you are taking this medicine. If you take too much changes It may interfere with the results of confusion, hallucinations some tests. (overdose) problems with sexual Immediately telephone your function Do not let yourself run out of tablets doctor or the National Poisons sleep disturbances, unusual especially over the weekend or Information Centre (telephone dreams holidays.
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