Furosemide tablets: reviews are not always true

In our country, self-medication is hardly a national tradition. Many people, feeling unwell, go not to the doctor, but to the pharmacy, where they buy a medicine that "helped the girlfriend." One of the most popular drugs that are bought without a prescription is Furosemide. Reviews, which are passed from mouth to mouth, reward him with almost magical properties. But is this medicine harmless? Let's try to understand.

Furosemide tablets. Indications

The international and chemical name of the drug also reads: Furosemide. A substance derived from sulfonamides is, as written in the manual, the strongest diuretic or, to put it bluntly, a strong diuretic. The active ingredient is furosemide, and corn starch, magnesium stearate and lactic acid serve as auxiliary components. They are added exactly as much as required for the formation of tablets. The drug "Furosemide" is intended exclusively for oral administration, therefore it is available in the form of white or cream colored tablets. Assign the medicine for a variety of diagnoses. It works effectively:

• As a preventive tool for stagnation of blood circulation, arising on the basis of heart failure.
• With hypertension, the cause of which is cirrhosis of the liver.
• With edema of the brain, lungs of different origin.
• During premenstrual syndrome.
• With renal failure (both acute and chronic).
• With eclampsia.

The drug "Furosemide" (reviews of doctors in this matter are unanimous) helps to quash crises caused by high blood pressure, poisoning with barbiturates. The doctor carefully selects the dose of medicine that is required for the particular patient. Sometimes even a single tablet taken without a prescription can lead to serious consequences.

Contraindications and side effects

How does Furosemide work? The testimonies of those who experienced it on their own note that very quickly. Even after taking just one pill, it lasts about four hours. As a result, the body can dramatically decrease the level of potassium, reduce the amount of fluid inside the cells. Sodium often falls. This, in turn, sometimes leads to vomiting, severe dizziness, temporary loss of vision or hearing.

Among other side effects, which sometimes causes the drug "Furosemide", there may be depression, a sharp drop in pressure, increased blood flow to an organ (this phenomenon is called "hyperemia"). Quite often, the patient who took the drug "Furosemide" feels how his skin "goosebumps", the skin numb, loses sensitivity. As a result of frequent and abundant urine, gout, kidney-related diseases can become worse. Because of the possible occurrence of side effects, some patients are strictly prohibited from using Furosemide tablets. The doctors' comments emphasize that the medicine is contraindicated:

• In obstruction of the urinary tract.
• Patients with glomerulonephritis.
• Suffering violations of water-salt metabolism, gout, stenosis.
• Many patients with heart disease.
• With diabetes.
• Children up to three years.

Overdose and interaction with other drugs

In case of an overdose, there may be a disturbance of the heart rhythm, water-salt metabolism, a decrease in blood volume. Perhaps a sharp drop in pressure and fainting, which are the consequence of hypotension. The drug "Furosemide" can not be used simultaneously with lithium: this can lead to severe toxic effects. The same result can be given by taking this medication and cardiac glycosides. The drug enhances the effect of muscle relaxants. Is it possible to drink Furosemide for weight loss? The doctors' reviews completely refute the statements of the girls using this product for weight loss. He does not lose weight, but simply lose water, which can be dangerous for health.