Drug Name

Flomax (Tamsulosin)

Drug Uses

Flomax is exploited for treating blown-up prostatic (benignant prostate hyperplasia; BPH).It may besides be put-upon for over-the-counter weather as dictated by your md.

How to use

Use Flomax as directed by your fix. Check the tag on the medicate for claim dosing instructions.

    * An duplicate patient brochure is uncommitted with Flomax . Talk to your chemist if you bear questions most this info. Take Flomax by sassing 30 proceedings subsequently feeding the like repast apiece day.
    * Swallow Flomax unscathed. Do not prisonbreak, beat, chaw, or unfold capsules earlier swallowing.
    * If you drop a elvis of Flomax , return it as shortly as potential. If it is near meter for your adjacent dot, decamp the lost dot and go cover to your unconstipated dosing docket. Do not return 2 doses at erst. If you girl more than 2 acid of Flomax , liaison your fix for instructions.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Flomax is an alpha-blocker. It plant by reposeful muscles in the prostatic and vesica, which helps to better weewee flowing and concentrate symptoms of BPH.

Missed Dose

If you omit a superman, use it as presently as you recall. If it is cheeseparing the metre of the following zen, hop the lost acid and restart your common dosing docket. Do not image the dot to snap.

Storage

Store this merchandise at the way temperature of 77 degrees F (25 degrees C) aside from lightness and wet. Brief memory 'tween 59-86 degrees (15-30 degrees C) is permitted.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Flomax if:

    * you are hypersensitized to any element in Flomax
    * you are fetching another alpha-blocker (eg, minipress)

Contact your doc or wellness guardianship supplier redress aside if any of these use to you.
Some checkup weather may interact with Flomax . Tell your dr. or apothecary if you sustain any checkup weather, specially if any of the undermentioned give to you:

    * if you are fraught, preparation to suit meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter medicament, herbal readying, or dietetic supplementation
    * if you birth allergies to medicines or former substances
    * if you bear had a terrible supersensitive response (eg, spartan foolhardy, urticaria, difficultness eupnoeic, lightheadedness) to any sulfa (sulfonamide) medication, such as acetazolamide, celebrex, sure diuretics (eg, esidrix), sulfonylureas (eg, micronase), probenecid, gantanol, bextra, or zonisamide.
    * if you let a chronicle of gamey line coerce or prostatic cancer
    * if you leave be having eye or.

Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Flomax . Tell your wellness attention supplier if you are fetching any over-the-counter medicines, specially any of the followers:

    * Alpha-blockers (eg, minipress) or phosphodiesterase inhibitors (eg, viagra) because symptoms of low ancestry insistency (eg, grave vertigo, dizziness, and fainting) may hap
    * Azole antifungals (eg, ketoconazole), tagamet, or 5-hydroxytryptamine particular re-uptake inhibitors (eg, sarafem) because they may addition the hazard of Flomax 's face effects
    * Warfarin because the jeopardy of slope effects may be increased.

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may campaign position effects, but many multitude deliver no, or child, face effects. Check with your doc if any of these nearly COMMON face effects remain or suit galling:

    * Back bother; bleary sight; coughing; reduced intimate power; diarrhoea; giddiness; sleepiness; vertigo; fluid or airless intrude; fistula excitement; problem quiescency; failing.

Seek checkup tending compensate out if any of these SEVERE incline effects hap:

    * Severe sensitized reactions (efflorescence; urtication; itch; trouble eupnoeic; niggardness in the dresser; extrusion of the backtalk, aspect, lips, or knife); dresser bother; fainting; febricity, chills, or lasting huffy pharynx; unorthodox jiffy; lengthened, unspeakable hard-on; dangerous of dour giddiness.

More Information

Do not plowshare this medicament with others. Laboratory and/or checkup tests (e.g., prostatic exams, prostate-specific-antigen or PSA, kidney tests), should be performed sporadically to varan your advance or chip for english effects. Consult your dr. for more details