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Taking losartan with drugs that contain potassium, potassium supplements, or salt substitutes with potassium can increase the risk of hyperkalemia (high levels of potassium)
Before using potassium supplements or salt substitutes that contain potassium, consult your doctor or pharmacist
Your doctor may adjust your dose and add another medicine based on your blood pressure response
Bananas are rich in potassium
Learn about Losartan Potassium: What it is used for, how to take Losartan Potassium, serious side effects, food and drug interactions, forms, doses, safe storage
Who
Losartan may be used to treat
headache
Losartan Potassium is the full name including the salt (potassium)
Losartan lowers blood pressure
Oral: Initial: 25 to 50 mg once daily; if inadequate response seen within 4 weeks, may increase to 100 mg once daily based on hemoglobin and blood pressure response; if hemoglobin remains >17 g/dL after an additional 4 weeks, consider alternative therapy (Brennan 2019; Julian 1998; Klaassen 1997; Yildiz 2001)
NDC 62332-027-90 bottles of 90 tablets
Call your doctor at once if you have: a light-headed feeling, like you might pass out; high blood potassium - nausea, weakness, tingly feeling, chest pain, irregular heartbeats, loss of movement; or
Maximum dose: 100 mg orally once a day
Losartan (Cozaar) is a first-choice medication used to lower blood pressure
Find out how losartan treats high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart failure, and how to take it
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Losartan potassium tablets USP, 25 mg, 50 mg and 100 mg tablets contain potassium in the following amounts: 2
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Oxidation of the 5-hydroxymethyl group on the imidazole ring results in the active metabolite of losartan
There’s a system in your body that helps maintain your blood pressure
5mg, 1000 count: BEF8D059: 11/30/2020: 13668-117-10: Losartan Potassium /Hydrochlorothiazide Tablets, USP 100mg/12
Losartan potassium tablets, USP 50 mg are white to off white oval, biconvex film-coated tablets with CL14 on one side and scored on the other
Modify Therapy/Monitor Closely
Lowering blood pressure reduces the risk of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events, primarily strokes and