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product information
Drug name: Metformin hydrochloride sustained release tablets Search tag: Metformin hydrochlorideHypoglycemic drug Product categories: Western Medicine Production unit: Shanxi Jin Hua Hui Xing Medical Co., LTD. Approval number: guo yao zhun zi No.H20050241 specifications: 0.5×28×400 ingredients: Metformin hydrochloride Usage and dosage: Oral administration, taken with or after dinner. Usually one tablet each time (500mg) and once a day; to regulate the dosage according to blood glucose and urine glucose for a maximum daily dosage of 4 tablets (2000mg);
Product function
1. To reduce the weight of patients with type 2 diabetes, especially obese subjects. 2. Be effective for poatients whose therapeutic efficacy is poor after taking sulfonylureas. 3. To control blood glucose when taken with the sulfonylurea or insulin.
Product brief description
1. Lactic acidosis: taking excessive metformin can cause this metabolic complications during the treatment with metformin hydrochloride tablets or metformin hydrochloride sustained - release tablets. It is reported mainly in cases with Type 2 diabetes combining severe renal insufficiency, congestive heart failure and liver disease; it also occured in cases taking alcohol or having an radiation imaging, and most of these cases are with medical / operation problems or combined drug therapy. Poisoning episodes are usually difficult to detect with only non-specific symptoms, such as discomfort, muscle pain, respiratory distres,s sleepiness and non specific abdominal tension. Some individual may have some symptoms, such as hypothermia, hypotension and bradycardia recessive heartbeat. Patients with all above symptoms should be suspended for taking drugs. Lactic acidosis is a clinical emergency, should be hospitalized immediately. 2. Do not chew but swallow the drugs. 3. patients with type 1 diabetes should not take this drug only (can combined with insulin) 4. During the course of medication, should always check, fasting blood glucose, urine glucose in urine ketone bodies, and is routinely measured serum creatinine, blood lactate concentration. 5. The effect of the product will be enhanced with insulin hypoglycemic, it is better to adjust the dose. 6. The blood glucose of patient should be detected for this drug can cause hypoglycemia when used with sulfonylurea drugs. 7. Taking with ethanol, the effect of metformin on lactate metabolism would be enhanced.In this case, it is easy to cause lactic acidosis, therefore, alcohol should be avoid.