Product Description.

The name of your medicine is ANGIOTEC. The active ingredient is Enalapril Maleate. This belongs to a group of medicines known as ACE inhibitors (Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors), which works by causing your blood vessels to widen. This helps your blood pressure to fall. It also makes it easier for your heart to pump blood around your body.

Do not take ANGIOTEC :

• If you are allergic (hypersensitive) to Enalapril Maleate, any other ACE inhibitors (type of medicines similar to ANGIOTEC), or any of the other ingredients in these tablets.
• If any member of your family has had an allergic reaction to these medicines or you have ever had swelling of your face, eyelids, lips, mouth, tongue or throat which caused difficulty in swallowing or breathing (angioedema) when the reason why was not known or it was inherited.
• 2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy.
• Severe hepatic impairment

HOW TO TAKE ANGIOTEC:

 Take your tablet at about the same time each day.

The first ANGIOTEC tablets you take may make your blood pressure fall by more than doses you take after that. The first tablets may make you feel dizzy or light-headed. It may help to lie down until you feel better. This effect becomes less likely with future doses. If you are concerned, talk to your doctor or pharmacist.

• The initial dose is 5 mg per day up to 20 mg taken once a day depending on your blood pressure.
• Some patients may need a lower starting dose.
• Maximum daily dose is 40 mg taken once a day. The actual dose, decided by your doctor, will depend on your blood pressure and other medical conditions.

POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECT:

Stop taking ANGIOTEC and see a doctor or go to a hospital straight away if: you begin to itch, develop a raised red skin rash (hives), get short of breath or wheezy and develop swelling of the hands, feet or ankles, face, eyes, mouth, nlips, tongue or throat, which may cause difficulty in breathing or swallowing. This may mean you are having an allergic reaction to ANGIOTEC.