Altoprev

Altoprev Information

Altoprev is a popular medicine that is generally employed in order to effectively lower the patient’s blood levels of cholesterol or any other types of harmful fats. In this way, a treatment with Altoprev is able to effectively prevent several types of medical disorders that are triggered by blood vessels that have been clogged by cholesterol. Altoprev is a popular medical product that is known to belong to a wide class of medications known as 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors. Such products are known to achieve their benefic purpose by effectively blocking a particular enzyme that is employed by the patient’s organism in order to produce cholesterol. In this way, a treatment with Altoprev is able to effectively lessen the amount of cholesterol that is produced by the patient’s organism.

Altoprev Indications

A treatment with Altoprev is known to be able to reduce the total cholesterol that can be found in the patient’s blood, but mostly the harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Lowering the patient’s blood cholesterol levels is able to effectively help the patient prevent hardening of the arteries, heart disease, vascular disease, stroke, and many other medical conditions. Ask your pharmacist fro more information about Altoprev.

Altoprev Warnings

Before you start taking your doses of Altoprev you will have to discuss with your personal physician the risks and benefits that you will gain from your intake of this medical product. Before you start taking a HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (like Altoprev), you should consider the following:

Allergic reactions - alert your personal physician is you have ever experienced an abnormal or an allergic reaction to a HMG-CoA reductive inhibitor. You should let your doctor know if you are allergic to any types of substances (this is known to include dyes, preservatives, foods, other medicines and so on).

Diet - before you are allowed to start taking medical products that are meant to lower your cholesterol levels you should try to keep your medical condition under control by following a special diet. This means that you will have to eat foods that contain lower amounts of fat (especially saturated fat). Many patients are able to keep their disorder under control if they follow their physician’s instructions, their diet and their exercise schedule with care. Such patients are prescribed Altoprev or other medicines that lower their blood cholesterol levels only if extra help is needed in keeping the disorder under control. Not following the diet and / or the exercise schedule is known to lower the medicine’s effectiveness. It is known that a treatment with Altoprev does not work properly in the case of overweight patients.

Pregnancy - it is known that HMG-CoA reductive inhibitors (such as Altoprev) should not be prescribed to pregnant female patients or to patients who are planning to become pregnant soon. Such medical products block the normal formation of cholesterol. This affects the development of the fetus, as cholesterol is vital in this process. Therefore, a treatment with this medicine during pregnancy is known to cause severe birth defects. This is why patients who start a treatment with this drug ought to use an effective contraceptive method. Ask your physician for more advice / recommendations.

Breast-feeding—Nursing mothers should not be allowed to start taking this medicine or any other similar medical products as they are known to harmfully affect the nursing infants (the medicine’s components pass into the mother’s breast milk).

Children—No clinical studies that involved this drug or any other similar medicines have been performed on children.

Older adults - this medical product has been clinically tested in a small number of patients that were at least 65 years old. The tests have shown that a treatment with this medicine affects elderly patients just like it affects younger, adult patients.

Altoprev Intake Guidelines

Ask your personal physician to give you some detailed and specific instructions regarding your treatment with Altoprev. Do not alter the dosage form or the treatment schedule that your personal physician has prescribed you. Do not stop your treatment with this medical product without first consulting it with your personal physician.

Each patient who is taking Altoprev should be aware of the fact that his or her treatment with this medical product is not able to cure your medical condition: it can only help to keep it under control. This is why, if you want to you’re your blood cholesterol levels low, you ought to continue your treatment with this medicine exactly as your physician has ordered you to.

Patients who are using Altoprev on a regular basis should avoid combining their doses of this medical product with large quantities of grapefruit products (this includes grapefruit juice), as this could lead to several severe interactions.

Altoprev Dosage

Any personal physician is able to tell you the proper amount of Altoprev that you should use on a regular basis.

Altoprev Overdose

If you suspect that you might experience overdose with Altoprev, we advise you to seek medical care as soon as you can.

Altoprev Missed Dose

Patients who happen to miss using a dose of Altoprev ought to take it in as soon as they recall. Ask your physician for further information.

Altoprev Side Effects

Altoprev Drug Reactions

Patients who are taking Altoprev ought to avoid using:

• Cyclosporine
• Gemfibrozil
• Clofibrate
• Fenofibrate  
• Niacin
• Digoxin
• Oral contraceptives
• HIV protease inhibitors
• Nefazodone
• Verapamil

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