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Losartan blocks receptors in your body that normally bind to a hormone called angiotensin II. When angiotensin II binds to these receptors, it causes your blood vessels to constrict and the body to release a hormone that tells your kidneys to keep sodium. Blocking these receptors help your blood vessels relax so that blood can move through them more easily. Blocking these receptors also causes your body to get rid of sodium and water. These effects can help your heart work better, lower blood pressure, and may reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke, and kidney damage progression.
to treat patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) in adults and in children and adolescents 6 - 18 years of age.
• to protect the kidney in hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients with laboratory evidence of impaired renal function and proteinuria ≥ 0.5 g per day (a condition in which urine contains an abnormal amount of protein).
• to treat patients with chronic heart failure when therapy with specific medicines called angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors, medicine used to lower high blood pressure) is not considered suitable by your doctor. If your heart failure has been stabilized with an ACE inhibitor you should not be switched to losartan.
• in patients with high blood pressure and a thickening of the left ventricle, Losartan has been shown to decrease the risk of stroke.
Do not take Losartan
• if you are allergic to losartan or to any of the other ingredients of this medicine,
• if you are more than 3 months pregnant,
• if your liver function is severely impaired,
• if you have diabetes or impaired kidney function and you are treated with a blood pressure lowering medicine containing aliskiren.
Adult patients with High Blood Pressure
Treatment usually starts with 50 mg losartan (one tablet Losartan 50 mg) once a day. The maximal blood pressure lowering effect should be reached 3-6 weeks after beginning treatment. In some patients, the dose may later be increased to 100 mg losartan (two tablets Losartan 50 mg) once daily.
Use in children and adolescents
Children below 6 years of age
Losartan is not recommended for use in children under 6 years old, as it has not been shown to work in this age group.
Children aged 6 - 18 years old
The recommended starting dose in patients who weigh between 20 and 50 kg is 0.7 mg of losartan per kg of body weight administered once a day. The doctor may increase the dose if blood pressure is not controlled.
The tablets should be swallowed whole with a glass of water. You should try to take your daily dose at about the same time each day. It is important that you continue to take Losartan until your doctor tells you otherwise.
Losartan 50 mg
Losartan blocks receptors in your body that normally bind to a hormone called angiotensin II. When angiotensin II binds to these receptors, it causes your blood vessels to constrict and the body to release a hormone that tells your kidneys to keep sodium. Blocking these receptors help your blood vessels relax so that blood can move through them more easily. Blocking these receptors also causes your body to get rid of sodium and water. These effects can help your heart work better, lower blood pressure, and may reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke, and kidney damage progression.
to treat patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) in adults and in children and adolescents 6 - 18 years of age.
• to protect the kidney in hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients with laboratory evidence of impaired renal function and proteinuria ≥ 0.5 g per day (a condition in which urine contains an abnormal amount of protein).
• to treat patients with chronic heart failure when therapy with specific medicines called angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors, medicine used to lower high blood pressure) is not considered suitable by your doctor. If your heart failure has been stabilized with an ACE inhibitor you should not be switched to losartan.
• in patients with high blood pressure and a thickening of the left ventricle, Losartan has been shown to decrease the risk of stroke.
Do not take Losartan
• if you are allergic to losartan or to any of the other ingredients of this medicine,
• if you are more than 3 months pregnant,
• if your liver function is severely impaired,
• if you have diabetes or impaired kidney function and you are treated with a blood pressure lowering medicine containing aliskiren.
Adult patients with High Blood Pressure
Treatment usually starts with 50 mg losartan (one tablet Losartan 50 mg) once a day. The maximal blood pressure lowering effect should be reached 3-6 weeks after beginning treatment. In some patients, the dose may later be increased to 100 mg losartan (two tablets Losartan 50 mg) once daily.
Use in children and adolescents
Children below 6 years of age
Losartan is not recommended for use in children under 6 years old, as it has not been shown to work in this age group.
Children aged 6 - 18 years old
The recommended starting dose in patients who weigh between 20 and 50 kg is 0.7 mg of losartan per kg of body weight administered once a day. The doctor may increase the dose if blood pressure is not controlled.
The tablets should be swallowed whole with a glass of water. You should try to take your daily dose at about the same time each day. It is important that you continue to take Losartan until your doctor tells you otherwise.
Losartan 50 mg
Losartan blocks receptors in your body that normally bind to a hormone called angiotensin II. When angiotensin II binds to these receptors, it causes your blood vessels to constrict and the body to release a hormone that tells your kidneys to keep sodium. Blocking these receptors help your blood vessels relax so that blood can move through them more easily. Blocking these receptors also causes your body to get rid of sodium and water. These effects can help your heart work better, lower blood pressure, and may reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke, and kidney damage progression.
to treat patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) in adults and in children and adolescents 6 - 18 years of age.
• to protect the kidney in hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients with laboratory evidence of impaired renal function and proteinuria ≥ 0.5 g per day (a condition in which urine contains an abnormal amount of protein).
• to treat patients with chronic heart failure when therapy with specific medicines called angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors, medicine used to lower high blood pressure) is not considered suitable by your doctor. If your heart failure has been stabilized with an ACE inhibitor you should not be switched to losartan.
• in patients with high blood pressure and a thickening of the left ventricle, Losartan has been shown to decrease the risk of stroke.
Do not take Losartan
• if you are allergic to losartan or to any of the other ingredients of this medicine,
• if you are more than 3 months pregnant,
• if your liver function is severely impaired,
• if you have diabetes or impaired kidney function and you are treated with a blood pressure lowering medicine containing aliskiren.
Adult patients with High Blood Pressure
Treatment usually starts with 50 mg losartan (one tablet Losartan 50 mg) once a day. The maximal blood pressure lowering effect should be reached 3-6 weeks after beginning treatment. In some patients, the dose may later be increased to 100 mg losartan (two tablets Losartan 50 mg) once daily.
Use in children and adolescents
Children below 6 years of age
Losartan is not recommended for use in children under 6 years old, as it has not been shown to work in this age group.
Children aged 6 - 18 years old
The recommended starting dose in patients who weigh between 20 and 50 kg is 0.7 mg of losartan per kg of body weight administered once a day. The doctor may increase the dose if blood pressure is not controlled.
The tablets should be swallowed whole with a glass of water. You should try to take your daily dose at about the same time each day. It is important that you continue to take Losartan until your doctor tells you otherwise.
Losartan 50 mg
