Reminyl Side Effects
Serious Adverse Side Effects
Reminyl | Galantamine has many serious adverse side effects associated with it, such as:
- Cardiovascular side effects such as abnormal heartbeats and heart failure
- Gastrointestinal side effects such as perforation of the esophagus and gastrointestinal hemorrhaging
- Hematological side effects such as thrombocytopenia, or low platelet count
- Other rare but serious side effects, such as death
Common Adverse Side Effects
Reminyl | Galantamine has more common and less severe adverse side effects such as:
- Endocrine metabolic side effects such as weight loss
- Gastrointestinal side effects such as diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting
- Neurological side effects such as dizziness and headache
Warnings & Recalls for Reminyl
The sole contraindication to
Reminyl | Galantamine is a hypersensitivity to galantamine or any component of the drug.
Who Should Not Take This Drug
The following patients who have these preexisting conditions should not take
Reminyl | Galantamine:
- Patients taking anesthesia
- Patients with asthma
- Patients with bladder flow obstruction
- Patients with cardiac disorders
- Patients with serious cognitive impairments are at a serious risk of death
- Patients who concurrently use drugs that significantly lower the heart rate
- Patients who use NSAIDs
- Patients who have convulsions
- Patients with a hepatic impairment
- Patients with obstructive pulmonary disease
- Patients with kidney impairments
- Patients with a history of ulcers
Reminyl Treatment and Use
Reminyl | Galantamine is a drug that is prescribed for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease and other memory impairment conditions, particularly those of the vascular origin. It is derived from an alkaloid obtained from bulbs and flowers of the Galanthus Caucasicus, Galanthus woronowii, Narcissus, Leucojum and Lycoris plants. This is a drug that had first been synthesized in modern medicine in the Soviet Union in the 1950s due to popular folk remedies in Eastern Europe that had had an established effectiveness.
Reminyl | Galantamine had been used throughout the territories of the Soviet Union for various indications for myopathy, myasthenia, and sensory or motor dysfunction associated with the central nervous system. In the US, Reminyl | Galantamine had been approved for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
How does Reminyl work?
Reminyl | Galantamine is a reversible and competitive acetylcholinesterase inhibitor that has a largely unknown mechanism of action. It is suggested that Reminyl | Galantamine improves cholinergic functionality by increasing acetylcholine levels, which, in a reverse fashion, inhibits the neurotransmitters of a patient’s brain.
Dosage Information
The dosage of Reminyl | Galantamine depends largely upon the range of severity of Alzheimer’s a patient displays as well as the level of dementia attached to it. A dosage of 4-16mg orally twice daily for a minimum of 2 weeks and a maximum of 4 weeks is often the regimen that is prescribed for anyone taking this drug.
