LACIDIPINE 2 MG FILM-COATED TABLETS, PEZIUS 2 MG FILM-COATED TABLETS - patient leaflet, side effects, dosage

Pezius tablets contain a medicine called lacidipine. This belongs to a group of medicines called ‘calcium channel blockers’. Lacidipine helps to relax your blood vessels so that they get wider. This helps the blood to flow more easily and lowers the blood pressure.

Pezius tablets taken regularly as prescribed by your doctor will help to lower your blood pressure (to treat hypertension).

Other medicines and Pezius

Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines. This is because Pezius can affect the way some other medicines work. Also some other medicines can affect the way Pezius works.

In particular, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking any of the following medicines:

• medicines for high blood pressure
• medicines to control your heart beat (called ‘anti-arrhythmics’)
• medicines for depression called ‘tricyclic antidepressants’
• sleeping tablets or sedatives
• antibiotics
• antihistamines – used for hayfever and other allergies
• cimetidine – used for stomach problems
• tetracosactide and corticosteroids.

Do not take Pezius:

• if you are pregnant, likely to get pregnant or

are breast-feeding

• if you are allergic to lacidipine, other calcium channel blocker medicines or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6)
• if you have the heart problem ‘aortic stenosis’. This is a narrowing of a valve in your heart, which restricts blood flow
• if you have had a heart attack within the last month.

Do not take Pezius if any of the above apply to you. If you are not sure, talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking the medicine.

Pezius with food and drink

Do not take this medicine with grapefruit juice.

Pregnancy and breast-feeding

Do not take Pezius if you are pregnant, likely to get pregnant or are breast-feeding.

Driving and using machines

You may feel dizzy while taking Pezius. If this happens, do not drive or use any tools or machines.

Pezius tablets contain lactose

If you have been told by your doctor that you cannot tolerate or digest some sugars, talk to your doctor before taking this medicine.

You should stop taking Pezius if you get chest pain (angina) or a fast, weak pulse, rapid shallow breathing, low blood pressure, cold clammy skin, blue lips or feel dizzy, faint, weak or sick.

Warnings and precautions

Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Pezius:

• if you have an uneven heart beat or any other heart problems
• if you have or have ever had any liver problems.

If you are having any blood tests , tell the person giving the test that you are taking this medicine. This is because Pezius can affect results relating to your liver.

Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you. Check with your doctor if you are not sure.

It is important to take the right number of tablets at the right time of day.

• The usual starting dose is 2 mg every morning.
• After 3–4 weeks this may be increased to 4 mg every morning.
• If necessary, the dose may be increased again to 6 mg every morning which is the maximum daily dose.
• Swallow the tablets whole with a drink of water.
• Do not take with grapefruit juice.

The 4 mg tablet can be divided into equal doses.

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