LOSARTAN for High Blood Pressure: What are the Side Effects?
LOSARTAN for High Blood Pressure: What are the Side Effects?
Have you recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure? Do you have diabetic nephropathy or other kidney disease? Has your doctor recommended taking Losartan or other ARB’s as part of your treatment? Learn about the most common side effects as well as the more rare ones that you should watch out for. Starting a new medication can be scary so be informed.
Medication is not the only way that you should treat your high blood pressure. Many times through lifestyle changes like diet and exercise as well as managing your stress you can make a big impact on controlling it. For some simple steps you can start with in your diet watch my video on how to approach weight loss:
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Monitoring your blood pressure at home is a critical element to keeping your blood pressure under control. When it’s high you typically don’t have symptoms and oftentimes when you come see me you get nervous and your blood pressure goes up. It’s very helpful if you are taking it on a regular basis at home so we can tell if we need to make some adjustments. Here are a few options in blood pressure monitors that can help you with this:
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0.03 -> have you recently been diagnosed with
1.86 -> high blood pressure is your doctor
3.48 -> recommending you take losartan but
5.52 -> you're concerned about the possible side
6.99 -> effects if so and this is the video for
9.24 -> you keep watching to learn a little bit
11.58 -> more about what side effects to watch
12.929 -> out and why this can be an important
15 -> medication welcome to family men
24.779 -> I'm doctor Richardson and this is your
26.4 -> home for practical and accurate
27.57 -> information our family make healthy
30.029 -> decisions this is the channel that
32.009 -> focuses on bringing better health to
33.57 -> your home now in today's episode where
36.059 -> are we talking about one of the most
37.17 -> common medications that we use to treat
38.79 -> high blood pressure
39.629 -> Cobb losartan to help us learn more
42.27 -> about this medication I'm gonna tell you
43.86 -> the experience of one of my patients who
45.239 -> I recently start on this medication to
47.7 -> protect his identity where does he know
49.079 -> him Dale Dale 61 years old and he's not
52.199 -> a big fan of doctors
53.399 -> he hasn't been in to see anybody for 20
55.41 -> years and the only reason he came in to
57.6 -> see me as he was at his dentist's office
59.46 -> because of a tooth had been bothering
61.079 -> him they took his blood pressure there
63.359 -> and is 190 over hundred now for a couple
66.54 -> rejects it didn't go down so they
68.25 -> refused to treat him and tell his blood
69.689 -> pressure was under control this is
71.97 -> actually not an uncommon thing to happen
73.619 -> you'd be surprised at how many people
75.75 -> get referred to me from their dentist
76.89 -> because of their high blood pressure
78.32 -> well anyway he had to make an
80.43 -> appointment to see me to see what we
82.29 -> could do about his blood pressure so
84.689 -> when he came to my office he had
86.07 -> improved from the dentist so now he was
88.049 -> only 182 over 100 so luckily he wasn't
91.56 -> having his symptoms like headaches or
93.24 -> chest pain or any of those significant
95.13 -> problems so we didn't need to send him
96.689 -> to the emergency room he just needed to
98.67 -> get his blood pressure under control
100.2 -> now remember Dale is not a big fan of
102.54 -> doctors maybe some of you out there can
104.7 -> relate that sounds like you let me know
107.25 -> in the comments below and don't worry I
108.659 -> won't be offended I don't like most
110.399 -> doctors either now he's not a too
112.68 -> excited about the office so I try and
114.869 -> help him understand a little more about
116.49 -> high blood pressure why it's something
118.2 -> he should care about other than so he
120.54 -> goes to fixed
121.84 -> so we had a great discussion about blood
123.729 -> pressure and why it's so important to
124.96 -> treat it I told him that the reason we
127.03 -> care about high blood pressure is
128.2 -> because the impact that it can have on
129.759 -> your overall health you see high blood
132.31 -> pressure is the leading cause of
133.54 -> cardiovascular disease to include heart
135.58 -> attacks and strokes as well as it plays
137.86 -> a significant role in chronic kidney
139.33 -> disease often times we refer to high
141.94 -> blood pressure as the silent killer
143.83 -> it's call this because it typically
145.72 -> doesn't have any symptoms when you take
148.09 -> your blood pressure you get two numbers
149.319 -> the top number is called the systolic
151 -> blood pressure this is the pressure that
153.43 -> your heart exerts in the vessels when it
155.08 -> contracts now the bottom number is
157.39 -> called a diastolic blood pressure that
159.459 -> the resting pressure in your blood
160.84 -> vessels when your heart isn't beating
162.13 -> both numbers are important now for most
165.489 -> people we diagnose high blood pressure
167.049 -> when your numbers are over 140 in the
168.76 -> top and 90 on the bottom on a consistent
170.86 -> basis so in Dale's case with his blood
173.47 -> pressure being 182 over a hundred he was
176.29 -> a very high risk of having a heart
177.79 -> attack or a stroke at some point of his
179.26 -> life if not here soon so this got his
181.989 -> attention a little more but he was still
183.97 -> hasn't to do anything about it he just
186.519 -> had a hard time getting over the fact
187.959 -> that he may have to think of medicine to
190 -> treat a condition that doesn't have any
191.65 -> symptoms he wouldn't even know that he
194.29 -> had high blood pressure had he not gone
195.7 -> to the dentist I told him this wasn't
198.19 -> alone this concern in fact it's one of
200.049 -> the hardest things that I have to do is
201.43 -> help people understand how important it
203.59 -> is to treat blood pressure especially
205.45 -> when you're not having any symptoms I
207.34 -> don't know that you don't want your
209.29 -> first symptom to be a stroke that seemed
211.63 -> to get his attention
212.44 -> so yes a little more about what would
214.42 -> need to be done so we had a really good
217.03 -> discussion about diet and lifestyle
218.709 -> changes we talked about how it needs to
221.049 -> be exercising five times a week
222.85 -> avoiding excessive salt in his diet
224.95 -> watching the refined carbohydrates and
227.35 -> focusing on getting lots of fruits and
228.819 -> vegetables and as a diet
230.17 -> and ultimately working on some weight
232.06 -> loss he was willing to work on knees but
234.819 -> he was worried that he wasn't going to
235.93 -> be too successful so he gave us some
237.85 -> encouragement to start but recommended
239.68 -> that because of his age and where his
241.84 -> blood pressures were at the moment that
243.25 -> we would do best if we just helped him a
245.2 -> little bit
245.95 -> pressure I recommended that we start
248.349 -> among those are 10 this is a medication
251.08 -> that has been available in the United
252.489 -> States since 1995 it was first released
255.129 -> under the tree known Kozar but has been
256.81 -> generic since 1920 so it's typically
259.209 -> just referred to as losartan it's used a
262.24 -> principally control blood pressure but
264.19 -> it's also used to treat those and then
265.69 -> enlarged heart as well as to prevent and
267.82 -> treat kidney damage caused by the
269.77 -> effects of diabetes well certain
272.32 -> belonging to the class of medications
273.669 -> called angiotensin receptor blockers we
276.37 -> call them ARVs research they work for
278.86 -> blocking a certain receptor that affects
280.87 -> how your kidneys are able to regulate
282.37 -> blood pressure in your body but the best
284.68 -> part is not only do they help lower your
286.33 -> blood pressure but they've also been
288.07 -> shown to help decrease the risk of your
289.84 -> heart attack and stroke and they can be
291.76 -> quite effective in most people this is
294.34 -> why I felt this would be a good choice
295.419 -> for Daryl now he is warming up to the
297.76 -> idea of trying a medication of more up
299.59 -> but still had some concerns he was
301.81 -> worried about whether he could even
303.22 -> remember to take it this is always a
305.26 -> concern with medication but it's our tan
307.21 -> it's actually pretty easy to take it you
308.95 -> only need to do it once a day it comes
311.139 -> on tablet of twenty five fifty and a
313.27 -> hundred milligrams and the maximum
315.039 -> effective dose is 100 milligrams it's
317.62 -> easy to dose and get some flexibility to
319.72 -> change strengths if needed no not a
322.78 -> concern II had is that whether this
324.88 -> would be something you would have to
325.87 -> stay on his whole life this is a great
328.03 -> question and really one that many don't
329.62 -> like the answer to you see it's
331.99 -> important to understand that with little
333.34 -> Sartain and any other blood pressure
334.81 -> medication it only works when you take
336.58 -> it we really don't have anything that
338.289 -> will cure high blood pressure I
340.26 -> explained that I have people come in all
342.25 -> the time though with their blood
343.27 -> pressure really high after he originally
345.039 -> had it controlled telling me that they
346.99 -> stopped the medication because we fixed
349.24 -> it unfortunate this is not the way it
351.25 -> works so unless you have some underlying
354.039 -> lifestyle issues that are causing your
355.9 -> high blood pressure and you fix those
357.82 -> you need to stay on these medications
359.91 -> don't stop them unless you discuss it
362.38 -> with your doctor know if you do make
364.539 -> some significant lifestyle changes and
366.099 -> your blood pressure starts to drop then
368.289 -> another direction of your doctor they
369.52 -> may be able to pull back on how much
370.75 -> you're taking or even get rid of it this
373.06 -> isn't a norm though and unfortunately
374.89 -> sometimes we just have high blood
376.479 -> pressure and in order to prevent that
378.46 -> heart
378.81 -> pack up stroke you need to stay on the
380.85 -> medication so at this point I think I
383.34 -> had him a little more convinced that
384.6 -> this may be the route that he wanted to
386.25 -> take however he was still concerned
388.11 -> about sine of X now fortunately for most
390.69 -> people this is the great news about this
392.1 -> medication
392.91 -> well Sartain is usually well tolerated
394.82 -> it's not very often that I have a
396.9 -> patient want to stop it because of side
398.669 -> effects that being said any medication
401.55 -> has potential for side effects and loss
403.53 -> are cons no different I explained to him
405.96 -> that the most common side effects that
407.46 -> we tend to see with losartan are some
409.8 -> diarrhea fatigue joint pains dizziness
413.49 -> heartburn and sometimes a cough I
415.77 -> mentioned the cough there's another
417.93 -> medication that they recently reviewed
419.7 -> called the syndrome you can link to it
421.44 -> up here or in the description below it's
423.9 -> a cousin to losartan it works similar
425.7 -> it's most common side effect is a dry
428.01 -> cough well Sartain is usually the
430.32 -> medication that we will switch patients
432.03 -> to when they get that cough from the
433.56 -> cinah prone usually the cop will go away
436.11 -> upon switching but there's some lesser
438.54 -> common cases of people giving the copper
440.82 -> plus r 10 as well that's nothing
442.56 -> dangerous just annoying and should go
444.27 -> away when you stop the medication no
447 -> probably the main side effect I see is
449.76 -> some dizziness or feeling like heaven
451.44 -> this usually is a sign of the medication
453.87 -> may be working too well if this happens
456.27 -> typically you notice that when you stand
457.8 -> up you get that head rush feeling it may
459.6 -> feel like you're gonna pass out if this
461.88 -> is happening concentrating on standing
463.65 -> up slower check your blood pressure and
465.99 -> bring those to your doctor so you can
467.16 -> talk about it sometimes all you need to
469.139 -> do is just adjust the dose now there are
472.44 -> some more serious I'll be a rare
474.09 -> reactions that you should be aware of
475.47 -> and watch for we already mentioned that
477.99 -> low blood pressure but some people can
480.27 -> have a more significant profit is more
482.22 -> difficult to breed on also there's a
484.62 -> condition called angioedema them occur
486.6 -> and some people it certainly is a common
488.61 -> I think I've seen it once in my career
490.62 -> so it's most easily described as what
493.139 -> you may see with large
494.35 -> reaction where you get swelling in your
496.33 -> face lips tongue throat even your bowels
499.21 -> if you think this is happening it's
501.46 -> important to stop your medication and
502.87 -> contact your doctor rarely it can cause
505.42 -> severe swelling in your throat or airway
507.27 -> if this is happening you need to get
509.71 -> through the emergency room right away
511.2 -> no other air side effects can be high
513.669 -> potassium levels decrease kidney
515.77 -> function liver irritation and some
518.229 -> decrease in your platelet count in your
519.58 -> blood now the most common reason though
522.64 -> that we see a decreased kidney function
524.47 -> with medication is when people combine
526.36 -> it with anti-inflammatories like
528.19 -> ibuprofen Aleve or medications similar
531.28 -> to them when you take these kinds of
533.59 -> medications especially when you're doing
535.3 -> it on a regular basis the combination of
537.73 -> the two can decrease the blood flow of
539.65 -> important parts of your kidney and can
541.12 -> damage them so the best advice that I
543.28 -> can give you is avoid combining
545.19 -> anti-inflammatories and ARB is like
547.51 -> losartan
548.2 -> it really can be harmful to your kidneys
551.13 -> now there has been an issue that has
553.21 -> recently been in the press regarding
554.56 -> this medication there was recently
557.17 -> several recalls regarding this vacations
558.94 -> regarding this medication it caused a
561.4 -> lot of concerning questions for my
562.93 -> patients now what happened is some of
565.81 -> the manufacturers allowed some
567.55 -> impurities in the medications that were
569.38 -> being manufactured that had some risk of
571.9 -> common cancer now these were specific
574.87 -> batches of medications from specific
577.48 -> manufacturers that have a problem there
580.3 -> wasn't anything really related to
581.74 -> losartan itself that was a problem only
584.59 -> some of the ingredients they were using
586.18 -> in the manufacturing process
587.82 -> so if your medication was affected you
590.29 -> should have been contacted by the
591.58 -> pharmacy or your insurance carrier
593.8 -> if in doubt though take it to your
595.75 -> pharmacist to make sure that your
597.13 -> specific medication was not involved in
598.93 -> recall so just like you darrel after
602.14 -> hearing about some of these
602.89 -> possibilities there was a little nervous
604.3 -> about taking the medication but I'll
606.25 -> tell you what I told him you have to
608.29 -> step back and look at the big picture
609.63 -> because the risk of these side effects
611.77 -> are very small so which I've never seen
614.13 -> so don't let the fear of a rare side
616.87 -> effect put you in darren danger the very
619.63 -> real risk untreated high blood pressure
621.79 -> brain
622.6 -> so you'll be the same as saying that you
624.43 -> don't want to drive to the hospital when
626.14 -> you're sick because you might get in a
628.03 -> car accident that seemed to do the trick
630.22 -> to help they'll be more comfortable
631.33 -> starting on something like this but he
633.79 -> still had one King up he was worried
635.89 -> because he had heard about how expensive
637.18 -> medications can be now luckily I was
640.15 -> able to come as fears about this as well
641.62 -> well Sartain is usually pretty
643.57 -> affordable it's been generic for a while
645.61 -> now in fact you can get a 30-day supply
647.41 -> your local Walmart for nine dollars so
650.97 -> Dale finally decided that this was the
653.32 -> right course of treatment for him on the
655.48 -> follow-up visit his blood pressure
656.86 -> dropped from 180 to over a hundred to
659.44 -> 145 over 88 he had a significant drop
662.56 -> one was feeling a lot better he still
664.78 -> wasn't quite a goal so it worked a
666.4 -> little more with some other treatments
667.78 -> to get him there but he was quite happy
669.94 -> with lasar 10 and other than the fact
671.71 -> that you had to take it he really didn't
673.96 -> realize he was even on something overall
676.12 -> though Sartain can be a great medication
677.98 -> for most people it was for Dale
679.69 -> but like most medications they aren't
681.88 -> for everybody if you're thinking about
683.92 -> it for yourself there are a few groups
685.75 -> of people that should be conscious about
687.25 -> taking it those who should stay clear of
689.71 -> it or those who have already had prior
691.36 -> allergic reaction or had a history of
693.67 -> angioedema that we talked about before
695.67 -> also if you're pregnant or are female in
698.41 -> your childbearing years you may also
699.73 -> want to look elsewhere also those who
702.7 -> already have some underlying kidney
704.47 -> disease or severe heart disease you
706.27 -> should also be careful so what was your
707.95 -> doctor to find the right one for you now
711.16 -> diet and lifestyle changes have not been
713.35 -> enough to control your blood pressure
714.28 -> and your doctor recommends that you take
715.99 -> a little certain as part of your
717.19 -> treatment regimen hopefully you have a
719.17 -> little more confidence in using this as
721.06 -> part of your treatment plan now that
723.25 -> certainly isn't an all-inclusive and
724.69 -> into that discussion but everything they
726.4 -> be told about this medication that's not
728.11 -> what I'm trying to do here my purpose in
730.27 -> sharing this information is help give
731.74 -> information that you can think about it
733.81 -> so discuss with your own doctor so
736.06 -> please don't take this as direct medical
737.38 -> advice take everything you've learned
739.18 -> today and discuss it with your own
740.47 -> doctor and how it applies to you in your
742.06 -> situation now if you found this
744.58 -> information to be helpful do me a favor
746.23 -> go ahead and hit that like button and
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757.06 -> don't go anywhere because if you're
758.53 -> looking at ways that you can start your
760.66 -> diet and lifestyle changes to help treat
762.55 -> your blood pressure go ahead and click
764.02 -> here and watch some simple steps that
766.03 -> you can take to start your diet journey
767.5 -> and if you're looking for another option
769.63 -> treat your blood pressure click here so
772.33 -> until next time this is family met with
774.07 -> dr. Richardson and remember take care of
776.44 -> your body
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