(AL oh GLIP tin) Brand: Nesina
• Do not use this medication if you are in a state of diabetic ketoacidosis (call your doctor for treatment with insulin). Alogliptin is not for treating type 1 diabetes.
• Alogliptin can reason pancreatitis. Stop using this medication and call your doctor at once if you have severe pain in your upper stomach spreading to your back, nausea and vomiting, and loss of appetite.
• Alogliptin is an oral diabetes medication that helps control blood sugar levels. It works by regulating the levels of insulin your body produces after eating.
• Alogliptin is for people with type 2 diabetes. Alogliptin is sometimes used in combination with another diabetes medications, but is not for treating type 1 diabetes.
• Alogliptin may also be used for purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• Do not use this medication if you are allergic to alogliptin, or if you are in a state of diabetic ketoacidosis (call your doctor for treatment with insulin).
• To create certain alogliptin is safety for you, speak your doctor if you have:
· liver disease;
· kidney malady (or if you are on dialysis);
· a history of pancreatitis;
· gallstones; or
· a history of alcoholism.
• FDA pregnancy category B. Alogliptin is not expected to harm an unborn child. Speak your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
• It is not known whether alogliptin passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing child. Speak your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
• Do not give this medicine to anyone under 18 years old without medical advice.
• Follow all directions on your prescription label. Your doctor may occasionally change your doze to create certain you get the excellent results. Do not take this medication in larger or less amounts or for longer than recommended.
• You may take this medication with or without food. Follow your doctor's instructions.
• Your blood sugar will need to be checked often, and you may need another blood trials at your doctor's office.
• Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) can happen to everyone who has diabetes. Symptoms include headache, famine, sweating, pale skin, irritability, dizziness, feeling shaky, or trouble concentrating.
• Hold a source of sugar with you in case you have low blood sugar. Sugar sources include fruit juice, heavy candy, crackers, raisins, and non-diet soda. Be certain your family and close friends know how to help you in an abnormal. If you have severe hypoglycemia and can't ate or drink, use a glucagon injection. Your doctor can prescribe a glucagon abnormal injection kit and speak you how to use it.
• Check your blood sugar carefully during times of stress, travel, diseases, surgery or medical abnormal, vigorous exercice, or if you drink alcohol or skip meals. These things can affect your glucose levels and your doze needs may also change. Do not change your medicine doze or schedule without your doctor's advice.
• Alogliptin is only part of a treatment program that may also include diet, exercice, weight control, blood sugar testing, and particular medical care. Follow your doctor's instructions very closely.
• Store at room temperature away from moisture, heat, and light.
• Take the missed doze as soon as you remember. Skip the missed doze if it is nearly time for your following scheduled doze. Do not take extra medication to create up the missed dose.
• Search abnormal medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. You may have signs of low blood sugar, such as extreme weakness, blurred vision, sweating, trouble speaking, tremors, stomach pain, confusion, and seizure (convulsions).
• Avoid drinking alcohol.
• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Stop using alogliptin and call your doctor at once if you have:
· severe pain in your upper stomach spreading to your back;
· nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, quick heart course;
· itching, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes); or
· severe skin reaction -- fever, sore throat, swelling in your person or tongue, burning in your eyes, skin pain, followed by a red or purple skin rash that spreads (especially in the person or upper body) and causes blistering and peeling.
• General side effects may include:
· headache; or
· cool symptoms such as stuffy nose, sinus pain, sore throat.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
• Using determined medicines can create it harder for you to speak when you have low blood sugar. Speak your doctor if you use albuterol, clonidine, reserpine, or a beta-blocker (atenolol, metoprolol, propranolol, and others).
• Another drugs may interact with alogliptin, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal commodity. Speak every of your health care providers about all medicines you use now and any medication you start or stop using.
• Your pharmacist can provide more information about alogliptin.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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