Medicines List

Description

The active ingredient in LanzAcid is lansoprazole. It belongs to a group of medicines called proton pump inhibitors.
LanzAcid works by lowering the amount of acid in your stomach.

Indications

LanzAcid is used for:
– Healing ulcers in your stomach or duodenum (gut);
– Healing and preventing ulcers caused by medicines called Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs). This includes medicines like aspirin, ibuprofen, ketoprofen and piroxicam;
– Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD). This happens when acid from your stomach escapes into your food pipe (oesophagus) causing damage and inflammation;
Lansoprazole can relieve symptoms that can happen with the above conditions and stop them from coming back;
– The pain of indigestion or heartburn caused by too much acid (acid-related dyspepsia) in your stomach;
– Illnesses, such as Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome, where the stomach makes large amounts of acid. This can lead to diarrhoea and pain in the stomach;
– Infections caused by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori when lansoprazole is given in combination with antibiotic therapy.

Subject to medical prescription.

Concentration and pharmaceutical form: 30 mg gastro-resistant capsules, hard

Description

Telsart contains telmisartan, which belongs to a class of medicines known as angiotensin II receptor antagonists. Telsart causes the relaxation of the blood vessels and thus lowers blood pressure.

Indications

Hypertension
Treatment of essential hypertension in adults.

Cardiovascular prevention
Reduction of cardiovascular morbidity in adults with:
– manifest atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease (history of coronary heart disease, stroke, or peripheral arterial disease); or
– type 2 diabetes mellitus with documented target organ damage.

Subject to medical prescription.

Concentration and pharmaceutical form: 80 mg tablets

Description

Diab MR is a medicine that reduces blood sugar levels (oral antidiabetic medicine belonging to the sulfonylurea group).

Indications

Diab MR is used in a certain form of diabetes (type 2 diabetes mellitus) in adults, when diet, exercise and weight loss alone do not have an adequate effect on keeping blood sugar at the correct level.

Subject to medical prescription.

Concentration and pharmaceutical form: 30 mg modified-release tablets

Description

Co-Paxene is a combination of perindopril and indapamide, used for treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension) in adults.

Indications

Co-Paxene 2 mg/0.625 mg tablets
– treatment of essential hypertension in adults.

Co-Paxene 4 mg/1.25 mg tablets
– treatment of essential hypertension;
– Co-Paxene 4 mg/1.25 mg tablets is indicated in patients whose blood pressure is not adequately controlled on perindopril alone.

Subject to medical prescription.

Concentrations and pharmaceutical form: 2 mg/0.625 mg; 4 mg/1.25 mg tablets