What is Amlodipine? | Amlodipine Side Effects | Amlodipine and High Blood Pressure

What is Amlodipine? | Amlodipine Side Effects | Amlodipine and High Blood Pressure

What is Amlodipine? | Amlodipine Side Effects | Amlodipine and High Blood Pressure

Hello viewers and welcome to Never Miss a Dose, Echo Pharmacy’s weekly look inside the medicine cabinet of the nation. In this series, we’ll take a look at the most commonly prescribed medication in the UK, what they’re used to treat and how best to take them. We’ll also do a demonstration at the end of each episode - it’s worth waiting for!

In the third episode in our six-part series on the UK’s 6 most common drugs on (long term) repeat prescription, our Chief Pharmacist Alistair Murray gives us a brief rundown on the key facts on amlodipine, which is most commonly used to treat high blood pressure. Alistair also demonstrates the difference between high and low blood pressure using some clever tubing and a LOT of water - check it out at 0.47 💦💦💦

Today we’ll answer:
*What amlodipine is
*How it works to lower blood pressure
*The possible side effects of taking amlodipine
*Why it’s important to stay adherent when taking amlodipine

For more information on how and when to take amlodipine, including the facts on amlodipine and alcohol, and why you shouldn’t have any grapefruit when taking amlodipine, take a look at Alistair’s blog post here: https://www.echo.co.uk/blog/what-is-a…

See you next week!
Echo Pharmacy

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Keen to learn more? Bring on the links!

For more information on amlodipine and high blood pressure, we always recommend checking out the NHS website:

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/amlodipine/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/high-bl…
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/high-bl…


If you’d like to learn a little more on how to prevent high blood pressure, how to maintain a healthy weight, or make some improvements to your diet, the NHS is on hand with a wealth of information:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/high-bl…
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-…

Not sure if you’re eating too much salt, or worried if you are? The NHS has great tips on how to use nutrition labels to spot the salt in food, as well as clear guidelines on the daily salt recommendations for adults, children and babies:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well…

Lastly, if you’d like to learn more about high blood pressure, we recommend checking out the British Heart Foundation’s website:

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsup…


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Who is Alistair?

Alistair Murray - MRPharmS
Chief Pharmacist- Echo Pharmacy

Alistair is a seasoned healthcare professional with over 20 years’ experience working with community and digital pharmacy, third-level education and the NHS. He completed his pharmacy training at Boots and spent 15 years as a pharmacist working in community pharmacies and GP surgeries before joining the founding team of Echo in 2015. He is an honorary lecturer at UCL and the University of Nottingham, the latter where he received his masters in pharmacy.

Alistair is passionate about adherence and making sure that people are making informed choices when it comes to their health.

With a penchant for fancy dress, Alistair can also be found explaining the world of pharmacy and tweeting at https://twitter.com/murristair

Disclaimer:
This video is for informational use only and should not be used for the diagnosis or treatment of medical conditions. Echo Pharmacy has used all reasonable care in compiling the information but make no warranty as to its accuracy. Always consult your GP, a doctor or other healthcare professional for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.


Content

2.899 -> hi I'm Alistair chief pharmacist at echo
6.24 -> and today we're talking about medicine
8.13 -> called amlodipine I'm Molly beans used
10.26 -> to help people lower their blood
11.28 -> pressure when it's a bit too high and it
13.86 -> does this by ever-so-slightly relaxing
16.17 -> the blood vessels so there's just a
19.02 -> little bit less resistance as blood
20.88 -> flows around the body when it relaxes
22.71 -> the blood vessels and especially when
24.33 -> you start taking it you might notice a
25.859 -> little bit of facial flushing that sort
27.72 -> of thing but that will normally subside
30.029 -> one of the key things with anything like
32.369 -> a lot of pain is that often you'll feel
34.68 -> fine
35.76 -> you'll feel well you don't know that
37.8 -> you've got the underlying issues in this
39.48 -> case blood pressure but it's really
41.55 -> important that you carry on taking a
43.44 -> medicine because it actually means the
45.059 -> medicines working if your blood
46.559 -> pressure's controlled so what we wanted
48.539 -> to do today we show you a visual
49.8 -> demonstration of what that actually
51.36 -> looks like in practice we've got one
53.73 -> fake system that's got normal-sized
56.699 -> tubes and that's basically like normal
58.44 -> blood pressure and we've got the same
59.969 -> thing but with narrower tubes which
61.41 -> mimics high blood pressure and I want to
63.66 -> just show you what it looks like and the
65.25 -> force that the liquid is coming out
66.99 -> those tubes and then what that means in
69.24 -> terms of your body let's check it out
70.89 -> these are healthy blood vessels with the
72.75 -> heart behaving normally and now in this
75.57 -> example this is high blood pressure
76.92 -> where we've got much narrower tubes and
78.72 -> you can see that just the same force and
80.49 -> it's going all over the place
82.53 -> absolute nightmare the real thing that
84.63 -> this means is that over a lifetime
86.31 -> you've got much more force hitting all
88.439 -> of your blood vessels and that can lead
90.21 -> to damage accumulating over time and I'm
93.03 -> going to have to clear this up
94.259 -> there's loads of links down below for
96.96 -> NHS advice
98.28 -> we've got healthy living advice lots of
100.799 -> trusted sources and that will help you
102.93 -> take a mother pin well and just look at
105.21 -> your lifestyle to help out with
106.92 -> controlling your blood pressure
108.119 -> thanks very much

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxada9JK6A