Therapeutic Indications

• The Product is recommended for use to treat the following:
• GLIMEPIRIDE 1MG is used to treat a certain form of diabetes (type 2 diabetes mellitus) when diet, physical exercise and weight reduction alone have not been able to control your blood sugar levels

Usage Directions

• Take this medicine in the dose and duration as advised by your Doctor. Swallow it as a whole with water; do not crush, break or chew it.

Precautions & Warnings

• Please consult your doctor before consuming this medicine, in case of:
• Have severe kidney or liver disease
• Are allergic (hypersensitive) to Glimepiride or other sulfonylureas or sulfonamides or any of the other ingredients of this medicine
• Are in a diabetic coma
• Have insulin dependent diabetes
• Have diabetic ketoacidosis (a complication of diabetes when your acid level is raised in your body)

Indicated Side Effects

• Severe hypoglycaemia including loss of consciousness, seizures or coma
• Allergic reactions (including inflammation of blood vessels, often with skin rash) which may develop into serious reactions with difficulty in breathing, fall in blood pressure and sometimes progressing to shock
• Allergy (hypersensitivity) of the skin such as itching, rash, hives and increased sensitivity to sun
• Abnormal liver function including yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice), problems with the bile flow (cholestasis), inflammation of the liver (hepatitis) or liver failure
• Decrease in the amount of sodium level in your blood (shown by blood tests)
• Lower blood sugar than normal
• Feeling or being sick, diarrhoea, feeling full or bloated, and abdominal pain
• Decrease in the number of blood cells
• Red blood cells (which can make the skin pale and cause weakness or breathlessness)
• Blood platelets (which increases risk of bleeding or bruising)
• White blood cells (which makes infections more likely)

Interactions

• Please inform your doctor if you have recently consumed or are consuming any of the below mention medicine:
• Allopurinol, probenecid, sulfinpyrazone, medicines to treat gout
• Phenylbutazone, azopropazone, oxyphenbutazone, aspirin, medicines to treat pain and inflammation
• Anabolics, medicines supporting muscle build up
• Insulin or metformin, medicines to treat diabetes mellitus
• Chlorpromazine and other phenothiazine derivatives, medicines to treat severe mental disorders
• Coumarin derivatives such as warfarin, medicines to inhibit blood clotting
• Levothyroxine medicines used to stimulate the thyroid gland
• Fenfluramine, medicines used to reduce weight
• Medicines to treat high blood pressure
• Disopyramide, medicines used to control abnormal heart beat
• Oestrogens, progestogens, medicines containing female sex hormones
• Fibrates, nicotinic acid, medicines lowering high cholesterol level
• Long acting sulfonamides, medicines to treat urinary infections
• Fluoxetine, MAO inhibitors, medicines to treat depression
• Tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, fluconazole, miconazole, quinolones, clarithromycin, medicines to treat bacterial and fungal infections

Storage Condition

• Store in a cool and dry place away from sunlight or as mentioned on Product/Label.

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