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Synthroid (Levothyroxine) Description
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Common uses
This medicine is a thyroid hormone used to treat hypothyroidism. It may also be used to treat other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Directions To at least take to this medicine in an empty stomach 1 hour before or 2 to 3 hours after eating. 1 hour is recommended that takings to your dose before breakfast unless it is directed of another way by your doctor. To try to at the same time take to this medicine every day. This medicine works more better possible when there is a constant level of the drug in your body. For the children who cannot swallow the whole tablets, crush the tablet and mix themselves in 1 or 2 teaspoons (5 or 10 mililiter) of water, and to give with a spoon or a dropper the sooner after the preparation. Not to store the mixture for a last use. Not to mix the tablets crushed in formula of the infant of the soybean. Some medicines can diminish the absorption of this medicine in your sanguineous circulation. Therefore, to take to this medicine 4 hours aside from supplements from calcium, iron, antacid (those that contains aluminum, calcium, or magnesium), simethicone, cholestyramine, colestipol, sucralfate, or sulfonate of the polystyrene of sodium. To store this medicine in the room temperature in a tight-closed package, far from the heat, of the humidity, and the light. If lack a dose of this medicine, to take it as soon as possible. If it is almost hour for your following dose, to jump the lacked dose and to go again to your schedule of regular metering. Not to take 2 doses immediately. Cautions The continuous use of this medicine by some weeks can be necessary to release symptoms of your condition. The symptoms of the low levels of the thyroid hormone include the fatigue, pains the muscle, constipation, dry skin, increase of the weight, slow heart rate, sensitivity to the cold, or dry the fragile hair that tends to fall towards outside easily. These symptoms must disappear whereas your body fits to the medicine. If they persist or they make annoying, to notify your doctor precise as your dose can need to be fit. Not to fit your dose nor to stop taking from this medicine without the verification with your doctor. To say to the doctor or dentist who you are taking this medicine before you have the treatment or surgery of the emergency. To keep all the appointments from the doctor and the laboratory (e.g., tests of function of the thyroid) whereas you are taking this medicine. Before you begin to take any new medicine, excessive prescription or - opposite, check with your doctor or phamacist. This includes calcium or antacid aluminum-containing, the toser-and-cold preparations of the iron and products, or the aids of the diet. This medicine in the old ones is advised to the precaution when using because they can be more sensible to the effects of this medicine. This medicine in children is advised to the precaution when using because overuse can reduce the final height of the adult of the boy. For the women: to inform to your doctor if beams embarrassed, whereas your dose can need to be fit. This medicine is excreted in maternal milk. To consult to your doctor before nursing. Possible side effects The indirect effect that can happen whereas they take this medicine include the headache, nervousness, insomnia shaking, sweating, having increased appetite, diarrea, loss of the weight or. If they continue or they are annoying, to verify with your doctor as your dose can need to be fit. In rare cases, a certain loss of the hair can happen during the months first to begin this medicine. This effect is generally temporary then your body fits to this medicine. If this effect persists or it gets worse, to notify your doctor as soon as possible. To immediately make contact with enemy with a your doctor if you experience pain chest, beat of the fast or irregular heart, shortness of the breathing, or the graspings. An allergic reaction to this medicine is improbable, but you experience the breathing of the difficulty; tenseness of the chest; swelling of eyelids, the face, or lips; or if you develop to an eruption or beehives, to say immediately to your doctor. If notes other effects nonenumerated above, to make contact with enemy with a your doctor or phamacist. If you take too much If the overdose is suspected, to immediately make contact with enemy with your control center of the poison or site of local emergency. The symptoms of the overdose can include to sweat excessive, extreme nervousness, beat of the irregular heart, pain chest, or graspings. |
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