Healthy Heart Resources
Featured Centers
- Ask the Nutritionist: Weight Loss Tips
- Which Drugstore Tooth Whiteners Work Best?
- Gout: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
home > drugs a-z list > lanoxin (digoxin tablets) drug center
Recommended Topic Related To:
Lanoxin Tablets
What Is Heart Failure?
Heart failure does not mean the heart has stopped working. Rather, it means that the heart's pumping power is weaker than normal. With heart failure, blood moves through the heart and body at a slower rate, and pressure in the heart increases. As a result, the heart cannot pump enough oxygen and nutrients to meet the body's needs. The chambers of the heart respond by stretching to hold more blood to pump through the body or by becoming more stiff and thickened. This helps to keep the blood moving for a short while, but in time, the heart muscle walls weaken and are unable to pump as strongly. As a result, the kidneys often respond by causing the body to retain fluid (water) and sodium. If fluid builds up in the arms, legs, ankles, feet, lungs or other organs, the body becomes congested, and congestive heart failure is the term used to describe the condition.
What Causes Heart Failure?
Heart failure is caused b...
Lanoxin
|
|
Lanoxin Tablets Drug Center
Medical Editor: Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
Lanoxin Tablets (digoxin) is a member of the cardiac glycoside group of drugs that have specific effects on the myocardial (heart muscle) tissue. Lanoxin is available in a generic form termed digoxin. Lanoxin is used to treat heart failure by increasing left ventricular ejection fractions and arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation by controlling the ventricular response rate. Most side effects and toxicity of Lanoxin Tablets are avoided if the maintenance dose (see below) is within prescribed limits.
Lanoxin Tablets are supplied as 125 or 250 mcg (microgram) once a day; adequate dosing without toxicity is determined usually by a blood test that determines the drug's level in the blood. Side effects and toxic effects of Lanoxin Tablets differ mainly in severity; symptoms are blurry or yellowish vision, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and mental changes. More serious events such as cardiac PR interval prolongation, ST depression, heart block, ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation may occur. In children, sometimes the initial symptoms are cardiac arrhythmias such as bradycardia or tachycardias. There are no controlled studies of Lanoxin Tablets in pregnancy, although there are a few reports of its successful use. A few studies suggest only a small amount of Lanoxin reaches breast milk; currently, most investigators suggest that the benefits of drug use should outweigh the potential problems before Lanoxin is used in pregnant or lactating females.
Our Lanoxin Tablets Drug Center provides a comprehensive view of available drug information as well as related drugs, user reviews, supplements, and diseases, and conditions.
What is Prescribing information?
The FDA package insert formatted in easy-to-find categories for health professionals and clinicians.
Lanoxin Tablets Prescribing Information: Indications & Dosage
Heart Failure
Lanoxin (digoxin tablets) is indicated for the treatment of mild to moderate heart failure. Lanoxin (digoxin tablets) increases left ventricular ejection fraction and improves heart failure symptoms as evidenced by exercise capacity and heart failure-related hospitalizations and emergency care, while having no effect on mortality. Where possible, Lanoxin (digoxin tablets) should be used with a diuretic and an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, but an optimal order for starting these 3 drugs cannot be specified.
Atrial Fibrillation
...Read the complete drug monograph for Lanoxin Tablets »
What is Lanoxin Tablets Prescribing Information?
Drug Description - Indications & Dosage - Side Effects & Drug Interactions - Warnings & Precautions - Contraindications - Medication Guide and More
What is Patient information?
Easy-to-read and understand detailed drug information and pill images for the patient or caregiver from Cerner Multum.
Lanoxin Tablets Patient Information: Side Effects
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
- fast, slow, or uneven heart rate;
- bloody or black, tarry stools;
- blurred vision, yellowed vision; or
- confusion, hallucinations, unusual thoughts or behavior.
Less serious side effects may include:
- mild nausea, vomiting, diarrhea;
- feeling weak or dizzy; ...
Read the complete patient information for Lanoxin Tablets »
What is Lanoxin Tablets Patient Information?
Possible Side Effects - Images - What Is - How Should I Take It - What If I Miss a Dose - What Should I Avoid and More
What is Consumer information?
A concise overview of the drug for the patient or caregiver from First DataBank.
Lanoxin Tablets Consumer Information: Uses
This medication is used to prevent itching of the eyes due to allergies. Alcaftadine is an antihistamine. It works by blocking a certain natural substance (histamine) that causes allergic symptoms.
Do not use this medication to treat red or irritated eyes due to wearing contact lenses. Contact your doctor for further instructions if this occurs.
HOW TO USE: Apply this medication in both eyes as directed by your doctor, usually once a day.
Wash your hands before each use. To avoid contamination, do not touch the dropper tip or let it touch your...
Read the complete consumer information for Lanoxin Tablets »
What is Lanoxin Tablets Consumer Information?
Warnings - Uses - How to Use - Side Effects - Precautions - Drug Interactions and More
Next: Drug Description
Additional Lanoxin Information
Report Problems to the Food and Drug Administration
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit the FDA MedWatch website or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Women's Health
Find out what women really need.
From WebMD
Lanoxin
Related Drugs
Health Resources
Use it Now
Find it Now
Pill Identifier on RxList
- quick,
easy,
concise
Find a Local Pharmacy
- including
24 hour
pharmacies
Updated & New
RxList does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.