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Vopar 250 mg
Contain 2 active ingredients : Benserazide + Levodopa. These are all medicines used in Parkinson's disease to increase the level of dopamine in the brain.
What is it used for?
Parkinson's disease.
Size : 10 x10's = 100 tablets
Finil 16 mg
Contain the active ingredient : Candesartan, which is a type of medicine called an angiotensin II antagonist. Candesartan is also available without a brand name, ie as the generic medicine. It works by preventing the action of a hormone in the body called angiotensin II.
Angiotensin II normally acts on special receptors in the body, with two main results. Firstly, it causes the peripheral blood vessels to narrow, and secondly, it stimulates the production of another hormone called aldosterone. Aldosterone causes salt and water to be retained by the kidneys, which increases the volume of fluid in the blood vessels.
Candesartan blocks the receptors that angiotensin II acts on and so prevents its actions. The main result of this is that the peripheral blood vessels are allowed to widen, which means that there is more space and less resistance in these blood vessels. This lowers the pressure inside the blood vessels.
Blocking the actions of angiotensin II also reduces the action of aldosterone on the kidneys. The result of this is an increase in the amount of fluid removed from the blood by the kidneys. This decreases the amount of fluid in the blood vessels, which also lessens the resistance and pressure in the blood vessels.
The combined overall effect of these changes is to lower the blood pressure.
Candesartan is also used to improve the symptoms of heart failure, where the heart is not pumping as efficiently as it should. It helps heart failure because lowering the pressure within the blood vessels means that the heart doesn't have to work as hard to pump the blood around the body.
What is it used for?
High blood pressure with no known cause (essential hypertension) in adults.
High blood pressure in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years.
Heart failure in adults.
Size : 10 x 10's = 100 tablets/box
Vultin 400 mg
Epilepsy
Treating nerve pain referred to as neuropathic pain, such as diabetic neuropathy or post-herpetic neuralgia, which occurs after having shingles.
Preventing migraine, but this is an unlicensed use and only recommended by specialist if other treatments for migraines have not worked.
Vultin 300 mg
Epilepsy
Treating nerve pain referred to as neuropathic pain, such as diabetic neuropathy or post-herpetic neuralgia, which occurs after having shingles.
Preventing migraine, but this is an unlicensed use and only recommended by specialist if other treatments for migraines have not worked.
Vocinti 20 mg
Vocinti 10 mg
Levomet 25/250
Contain 2 active ingredients : Levodopa 250 mg and Carbidopa 25mg. These are all medicines used in Parkinson's disease to increase the level of dopamine in the brain.
What is it used for?
Parkinson's disease.
Size : 10 x10's = 100 tablets
Levomet 25/100
Contain 2 active ingredients : Levodopa 100 mg and Carbidopa 25mg. These are all medicines used in Parkinson's disease to increase the level of dopamine in the brain.
What is it used for?
Parkinson's disease.
Size : 10 x10's = 100 tablets
Pradox 25 mg
Contain the active ingredient : Topiramate which is is an antiepileptic medicine, which is also used to prevent migraine.
What is it used for?
To treat a type of severe childhood epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
To prevent migraine in adults, for example in people who have three or more migraine attacks per month, or frequent migraines that significantly interfere with their daily routine.
Size : 6 x 10's = 60 tablets / box
Tonafil 100
Contain the active ingredient : Sildenafil Citrate 100 mg which is a medicine used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction (impotence).
Sildenafil is called a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor, and works by preventing the action of a chemical in the body called phosphodiesterase type 5.
An erection is produced via a complex chain of events, involving signals from the nervous system and the release of chemical messengers within the tissues of the penis. One of these chemical messengers is called cyclic GMP.
Cyclic GMP causes the blood vessels in the penis to widen by relaxing a thin layer of muscle found in the blood vessel walls. This allows more blood to enter the penis, which ultimately results in the penis becoming rigid and erect.
Cyclic GMP is normally broken down by another chemical in the body called phosphodiesterase type 5. Sildenafil works by preventing the action of phosphodiesterase type 5, thus stopping the breakdown of cyclic GMP. This means that the blood vessels are kept dilated for longer, improving blood flow to the penis and maintaining an erection.
As sildenafil enhances the actions of the chemical messengers responsible for producing an erection, it will only work once these messengers are present. This means that sexual stimulation is required for it to produce and maintain an erection. The dose should be taken approximately one hour before you intend to have sex.
What is it used for?
Erectile dysfunction (impotence).
Direction:
Adult 50 mg 30 min to 4 hr before sexual activity.
Max 100 mg once daily. Elderly >65 yr, patients w/ renal (CrCl <30 mL/min) & hepatic impairment, on stable α-blockers & potent CYP3A4 inhibitors Initially 25 mg. W/ ritonavir Max 25 mg 48 hrly.
Size : 4 tablets /box
Vocin 500 mg
Contains the active ingredient : Levofloxacin, which is a type of medicine called a quinolone antibiotic. Antibiotics are used to treat infections caused by bacteria.
Levofloxacin works by killing the bacteria that are causing an infection. It does this by entering the bacterial cells and inhibiting a bacterial enzyme called DNA-gyrase. This enzyme is involved in replicating and repairing the genetic material (DNA) of the bacteria. If this enzyme doesn't work, the bacteria cannot reproduce or repair themselves and this kills the bacteria.
Levofloxacin is effective against a large number of bacteria. It is used to treat a range of infections, including infections of the chest, urinary tract and skin.
What is it used for?
- Bacterial infection of the sinuses (sinusitis).
- Acute flare-ups of chronic bronchitis.
- Community-acquired pneumonia.
- Bacterial infections of the urinary tract, such as cystitis and kidney infections (pyelonephritis).
- Chronic bacterial infection of the prostate gland (prostatitis).
- Bacterial infections of the skin or soft tissue.
Lamoga-50
Contain the active ingredient : Lamotrigine which is an anticonvulsant medicine that's prescribed to help prevent seizures in people who suffer from epilepsy. It's also used as a mood stabiliser in bipolar disorder, sometimese known as manic depression.
Lamotrigine prevents epileptic fits
or seizures by stabilising excessive electrical activity in the brain.
It's thought to achieve this in two ways: by reducing the activity of a
natural 'nerve-exciting' agent called glutamate in the brain, and by
preventing electrical signals from building up in nerve cells in the
brain.
What is it used for ?
Treating bipolar affective disorder in adults.
Sometimes used to treat episodes of depression in bipolar disorder, and some people continue taking it as a mood stabiliser to help prevent future depressive episodes.
Help prevent
generalised tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal epilepsy) and partial or
focal seizures, as well as absence seizures in children. It's also used
for a type of severe childhood epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
It helps to reduce the number of seizures you get.
Size : 30 tablets / box
Lecetam 500 mg
Contains the active ingredient : Levetiracetam, which is a medicine used to treat epilepsy. It works by stabilising electrical activity in the brain.
The brain and nerves are made up of many nerve cells that communicate with each other through electrical signals. These signals must be carefully regulated for the brain and nerves to function properly. When abnormally rapid and repetitive electrical signals are released in the brain, it becomes over-stimulated and normal function is disturbed. This results in fits or seizures.
It is not fully understood how levetiracetam works to control seizures, but its mechanism appears to be different from other antiepileptic medicines.
What is it used for?
Partial seizures, with or without secondary generalised seizures in adults and children from one month of age with epilepsy. (Keppra can be used on its own to treat people aged 16 years and over with newly diagnosed epilepsy. In children aged one month and over it should be used as an additional medicine when other antiepileptic medicines have failed to fully control the seizures.)
Primary generalised tonic-clonic seizures in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age with generalised epilepsy with no known cause (in combination with other treatments).
Myoclonic seizures in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (in combination with other treatments).
Size : 60 tablets / box
Roxcin 150 mg
Contains the active ingredient : Roxithromycin which is an agent against bacterial infections (antibiotic) from the group of macrolides. It is a further development of the active ingredient erythromycin, which is also still used as an antibiotic. Here you can read everything you need to know about the effects and use of roxithromycin, side effects and interactions.
Just like animal and human cells, bacterial cells also have genetic material (DNA) that serves as a blueprint for the proteins that perform numerous tasks in the cell. Macrolide antibiotics such as roxithromycin inhibit so-called ribosomes, i.e. those complexes in the cell in which the DNA is translated into proteins. The growth and reproduction of the bacteria are inhibited.
Since the ribosomes of bacteria and humans differ greatly, roxithromycin can be used to precisely switch off the bacterial ribosome. In contrast, the antibiotic has comparatively few (side) effects on human cells.
After ingestion, two-thirds of the roxithromycin is quickly absorbed through the intestine into the blood , where it reaches the highest levels after two hours. The antibiotic gets into the lungs , skin and urinary tract particularly well . Roxithromycin also accumulates in immune cells that actively migrate to the site of the bacterial infection via the bloodstream.
What is it used for ?
Size : 10 x 10's = 100 tablets / box
Trajenta Duo
Contain 2 active ingredients : Linagliptin and Metformin. These are both medicines used to help control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.
In type 2 diabetes the cells in the body become resistant to the action of insulin. Insulin is the main hormone responsible for controlling the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood. It makes cells in the body remove sugar from the blood. When the cells are resistant to insulin this makes blood sugar levels rise too high.
Metformin is a type of antidiabetic medicine known as a biguanide. It works in a number of ways to decrease the amount of sugar in the blood. Firstly, it reduces the amount of sugar produced by cells in the liver. Secondly, it increases the sensitivity of muscle cells to insulin. This enables these cells to remove sugar from the blood more effectively. Finally, it also delays absorption of sugar from the intestines into the bloodstream after eating so that there is less of a spike in blood sugar levels after meals.
Linagliptin is a type of antidiabetic medicine known as a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor. It helps to reduce blood sugar levels by preventing the breakdown of two incretin hormones, called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP). These hormones are normally produced naturally by the body in response to food intake. They stimulate the pancreas to produce insulin in response to increasing levels of glucose in the blood, and they also reduce the production of glucagon, which is a hormone that normally increases glucose production by the liver. These actions help control blood sugar levels. By stopping the breakdown of these hormones in the body linagliptin increases their effect on controlling blood sugar.
This combination of medicines helps control blood sugar levels both directly after meals and between meals.
What is it used for?
Type 2 diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes) in adults aged 18 years and over.
Use in people with type 2 diabetes whose blood sugar is not controlled by the maximum tolerated dose of metformin alone or who are already taking metformin and linagliptin as separate tablets.
They are also licensed for use in combination with a sulphonylurea medicine (eg gliclazide) when one of these combined with metformin has not controlled blood sugar well enough.
Size : 60 tablets / box
Vagicin
Contain the active ingredient : Nystatin 100,000 IU, Chloramphenicol 250 mg, Diiodohydroxyquin 100 mg
Bacterial vaginitis, trichomoniasis, candidiasis and some other vaginal mycotic infections.
Chloramphenicol is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that was derived from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae and is now produced synthetically. It is effective against a wide variety of microorganisms, but due to serious side-effects (e.g., damage to the bone marrow, including aplastic anemia) in humans, it is usually reserved for the treatment of serious and life-threatening infections (e.g., typhoid fever).
Chloramphenicol is bacteriostatic but may be bactericidal in high concentrations or when used against highly susceptible organisms. It stops bacterial growth by binding to the bacterial ribosome (blocking peptidyl transferase) and inhibiting protein synthesis.
What is it used for ?
Bacterial vaginitis, trichomoniasis, candidiasis and some other vaginal mycotic infections.
Size : 5 tablets /box