What is Sigmaxin PG used for?
SIGMAXIN belongs to a group of medicines known as cardiac glycosides. They work by slowing down the rate while increasing the force of your heart when it beats. Heart failure is when your heart can’t pump strongly enough to supply blood needed through out the whole body.
What are the side effects of Sigmaxin?
Side effects
- nausea or vomiting, loss of appetite.
- diarrhoea.
- lower stomach pain.
- slow or irregular heart beats (may be fast in children)
- unusual tiredness or extreme weakness.
- general feeling of ‘unwellness’
- blurred vision or visual disturbances (e.g. colouredhalos around objects ie. yellow, green, or white)
- depression.
Who should not take digoxin?
New recommendations suggest limiting the use of digoxin for atrial fibrillation to only patients in whom beta blockers and calcium channel blockers have not achieved rate control and who are not considered candidates for other procedures to treat atrial fib (ablation or surgical Maze procedure).
What is digoxin tablets used for?
Digoxin is a medicine used to treat certain heart problems such as heart failure. Heart failure results when the heart can’t pump blood well enough to supply the body’s needs. If you have heart failure, digoxin can improve your heart’s ability to pump blood. This will often improve symptoms such as shortness of breath.
Is Sigmaxin a digoxin?
Sigmaxin belongs to a group of medicines known as cardiac glycosides. Digoxin is a cardiac glycoside with molecular haemodynamic, neurohumoral and electrophysiological effects contributing to its efficacy in heart failure. They work by slowing down the rate while increasing the force of your heart when it beats.
What is Dithiazide?
Dithiazide is used to treat: high blood pressure which is also called hypertension. the build up of fluid in the body which may cause swelling. This is called oedema and can occur as the result of some heart, lung or kidney conditions. fluid build-up caused by pre-menstrual tension (PMT) or certain medications.
Who needs digoxin?
Digoxin is used to treat heart failure, usually along with other medications. It is also used to treat certain types of irregular heartbeat (such as chronic atrial fibrillation). Treating heart failure may help maintain your ability to walk and exercise and may improve the strength of your heart.
Is digoxin a high risk medication?
Digoxin is a high-alert medication because of its narrow therapeutic range and high drug-to-drug interactions (DDIs). Approximately 50% of digoxin toxicity cases are preventable, which motivated us to improve the treatment outcomes of digoxin.
Is digoxin safe to use?
Digoxin Toxicity The toxic effects of digoxin can lead to: Life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in which the heart beats too quickly. Severe bradycardia in which the heart beats too slowly.
What are the sizes of sigmaxin tablets?
SIGMAXIN PG Tablets 62.5mcg,blue, biconvex, round tablet coded “U3A” on the upperface, bottom face plain; in bottles of 200. SIGMAXIN Tablets 250mcg: white, biconvex, round tablet,scored and coded “X3A” on the upper face, bottom faceplain; in blister packs of 100.
What are the ingredients in sigmaxin?
Sigmaxin Tablets contain the inactive ingredients lactose, maize starch, rice starch, and magnesium stearate. Sigmaxin PG Tablets also contain the inactive ingredients povidone and indigo carmine – Cl73015. Do not take Sigmaxin if you have an allergy to:
What is the brand name for sigmaxin PG?
Brand name: Sigmaxin PG TM. Active ingredients: digoxin. Congestive heart failure – Sigmaxin is useful regardless of whether the failure is predominantly of the left or right ventricle, or involves both sides of the heart.
Does sigmaxin have any side effects?
Sigmaxin is a Schedule 4 (prescription only) medicine. All medicines can have side effects. Sometimes they are serious, most of the time they are not. You may need medical treatment if you get some of the side effects. Ask your doctor or pharmacist to answer any questions you may have.