Guanfacine Hydrochloride

Guanfacine Hydrochloride or simply guanfacine is an antihypertensive adrenergic receptor agonist that stimulates central adrenergic receptors resulting in decreased sympathetic outflow from brain. This medication’s main purpose is to help control high blood pressure. It reduces impulses of the nerves to the heart and arteries which slows the heartbeat, enables the blood vessels to relax, and thus reduces blood pressure.

Doctors can prescribe Guanfacine alone, however, it may also be prescribed in combination with other high blood pressure medicines, such as Diuril, Esidrix, or Naturetin, all of which are thiazide diuretics. This medicine does not really cure high blood pressure, it only controls it movement thus preventing high blood pressure attacks.

Guanfacine Hydrochloride must be taken in regularly to ensure effectiveness.
This is because blood pressure declines gradually, thus, it may take several weeks before a patient experience the full effect and benefit of guanfacine.
Nonetheless, he or she (patient) must continue to take in this drug even if he or she starts to feel well.

Guanfacine is available only in 1 mg tablet form. An adult patient must receive PO 1 mg every day. The dosage may, however, be increased in 2 to 3 weeks to 2 to 3 mg every day, depending on the findings or evaluation of the specialist. This medicine is advised to be taken in before bedtime since it may cause drowsiness. In case a patient forgets to take in this drug, he or she may take in the forgotten dose as soon as he or she remembers to help keep and maintain the proper amount of medicine in the body.

Still and all, if he or she remembered to take his or her medication when it is almost the time for his or her next dose, he or she can skip the one he missed and go back to the regular schedule. They should never try to double their dose. Moreso, if a patient missed taking guanfacine for 2 or more days in a row, he must first check with his physician before taking another dose of this drug.

Patients receiving Guanfacine hydrochloride may experience dry mouth, constipation, cramps, nausea, diarrhea, taste change, tinnitus or a ringing noise in the ears also called ear noise, vision change, rhinitis, and nasal congestion. He may also feel somnolence (also known as drowsiness or hypersomnia) or a state of near-sleep, a strong desire for sleep, or sleeping unusually long periods, dizziness, headache and fatigue.

Worse cases of side effects caused by this medicine are impotence and urinary incontinence. It may also cause dyspnea or difficulty in breathing may also considered as shortness of breath, dermatitis, pruritus or severe itching of an undamaged skin, and purpura, also known as bloob spots because of the purplish discolorations or burises in the skin that is produced by small bleeding vessels near the surface of the skin.

Medical practitioners must be more cautious to pregnant moms who are lactating, children below 12 years of age, and patients with severe coronary insufficiency, recent MI, and renal or hepatic diseases. Specialists must take into account the patient’s neutrophils and his decrease in platelets in assessing if the medical is apt to be continued.

He should also evaluate the patient’s baselines in renal and liver functioning before the therapy begins.

He must always take into account the patient’s blood pressure before, during and after the treatment. Most importantly, he must assess the patient’s allergic reaction towards the medicine – if the patient still experiences rashes, fever, pruritus, and urticaria after taking in an antihistamine drug, he or she must discontinue the use of guanficine hydrochloride.

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