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Product Description:

Losartan 100 mg film-coated tablets*

What is Losartan and what is it used for?

• Losartan belongs to a group of medicines known as angiotensin II receptor antagonists.

Losartan is used

• To treat patients with high blood pressure in adults, children and adolescents aged 6-18 years.

• To protect the kidneys of type 2 diabetic patients with high blood pressure with laboratory evidence of impaired kidney function and proteinuria 0.5 g per day (a condition in which the urine contains an abnormal amount of protein).

• To treat patients with chronic heart failure when treatment with certain medicines called angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (ACE inhibitors, medicines used to lower high blood pressure) has not been considered. If your heart failure is controlled with ACE inhibitors, you should not be switched to losartan.

• For patients with high blood pressure and left ventricular hypertrophy, Cozaar has been shown to reduce the risk of stroke.

Do not take losartan.

• If you are allergic to losartan or any of the other ingredients of this medicine,

• If you are more than 3 months pregnant (it is also best to avoid losartan in early pregnancy),

• If you have severely impaired liver function,

• If you have diabetes or kidney dysfunction and are being treated with a blood pressure lowering medicine that contains aliskiren.

Warnings and Precautions

Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking losartan:

• If you have a history of angioedema (swelling of the face, lips, throat and/or tongue),

• If you suffer from excessive vomiting or diarrhea that results in severe loss of fluids and/or salt in your body,

• If you are taking diuretics (medicines that increase the amount of water that leaves your kidneys) or if you are on dietary salt restrictions that cause you to lose a lot of fluid and salt in your body,

• If you are known to have narrowing or blockage of the blood vessels leading to your kidneys or if you have recently had a kidney transplant,

• If your liver function is poor,

• If you have heart failure with or without kidney failure or concomitant serious, life-threatening heart rhythm disturbances.

• If you have coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular disease,

• If you have primary hyperaldosteronism

• If you are taking any of the following medicines used to treat high blood pressure: ACE inhibitors, aliskiren.

Possible side effects of losartan

• Dizziness,

• Low blood pressure,

• Dose-related orthostatic effects such as hypotension that occurs when rising from a supine position,

• Fatigue,

• Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar),

• Increased potassium in the blood (hyperkalemia).

• Changes in kidney function including kidney failure.

• Increased blood urea, serum creatinine and blood potassium in patients with heart failure.

Other medications and losartan

Take special care if you are taking the following medications while being treated with Losartan:

• Other medications to lower blood pressure because they may reduce blood pressure.

• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as indomethacin, including Cox-2 inhibitors (

How to take losartan

Adult patients with high blood pressure

• Treatment is usually started with 50 mg losartan (one losartan 50 mg tablet) once daily. The maximum blood pressure lowering effect should be achieved after 3-6 weeks of starting treatment. In some patients, the dose may later be increased to 100 mg losartan (two losartan 50 mg tablets) once daily.

Children and adolescents

Children under 6 years

• Losartan is not recommended for use in children under 6 years of age, as its effectiveness has not been proven in this age group.

Children from 6 to 18 years old

• The recommended starting dose for patients weighing 20 to 50 kg is 0.7 mg of losartan per kg of body weight given once daily. Your doctor may increase the dose if your blood pressure is not controlled.
• The tablets should be swallowed whole with a glass of water. You should try to take your daily dose at about the same time each day. It is important that you continue taking losartan until your doctor tells you otherwise.