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Digoxin is the best drug for congestive heart failure.Traditionally the Digoxin comes with the packing of 0.25 mg in tablet form. The physicians have been trying to use the drugs from ages since it's discovery. The drug has been giving toxic effects. The physicians tried to give holiday on each Sunday. Then tried to add one more on Saturday, without much benefit. Ultimately the physician stop using the drug. The basic fault lies with the quantity of the drug in the tablet. This much quantity gives toxic effects. Physicians are unable to manage the problem and the drug is defamed. The correct dose should be 0.18 mg per tablet. You can give this much dose with out any toxic effects, that too daily, in most of the patients. Only thing is that the kidney functions should be normal. You may need to give potassium supplement in some, specially when the patient is taking no food for a day or two.
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Antidote for digoxin?
I have seen my teachers to use the drug phenytoin to treat the the over dose of digoxin. Digoxin is a poisonous drug. It may kill the person, with accidental over dose of the drug.
What tube is used for digoxin?
GOLD is incorrect. Digoxin is a heart drug. General chemistry drug tests use red top.
What color tube is used for digoxin?
GOLD is incorrect. Digoxin is a heart drug. General chemistry drug tests use red top.
From Which plant is the heart drug digoxin made?
Digoxin is derived from leaves of a digitalis plant, a drug that comes from the foxglove plant (digitalis purpurea).
What is the Digibind drug?
Digibind is a drug which can bind to digoxin so as to prevent possible overdose.
What drug is produced by the Foxglove Flower?
Digitalis can be extracted from the foxglove plant.
What is pharmacokinetic of Digoxin?
Digoxin is a drug used to treat heart rhythm problems. It can also treat heart failure and angiotensin converting enzymes.
What is meant by therapeutic study of drug?
Therapeutic study of a drug is scientific research to find out if the medication can be used to treat disease.
What can drug therapy monitoring confirm?
confirm a blood drug concentration level that is above or below the therapeutic range, or if the desired therapeutic effect of the drug is not as expected.
What are the 7 therapeutic uses for drug?
in pharmacology the seven therapeutic uses of drugs
What is digitalis or a drug called digoxin?
Digitalis has got digoxin and digitoxin in the extract of the plant Digitalis lanata. Digitoxin has got very long half life and should not be used in therapeutics. Digoxin is drug of therapeutic value. It is very good drug for congestive heart failure. Digoxin has very unique mode of action. It takes less oxygen for heart to do the same amount of work. Alternately, your heart work more with the same amount of oxygen, when on digoxin. You may give the loading dose of two tablets of 0.25 mg. Fallowed by one after say twelve hours. Then 3/4 tablet daily after 24 hours. When there is no urgency, you should give 3/4 tablet daily, from the begining. You may need to give potassium supplement in some, specially when the patient is taking no food for a day or two. With signs of toxic effects, you should stop the drug. The rule of thumb is 'Nausea'. When the patient feels like vomiting, he may be getting overdose of digoxin. Otherwise, there may be hypokalemia or low level of potassium. Most common cause for the same is no food intake or loose motion. If you continue to give digoxin, patient will go for vomiting. Natures way to get rid of digoxin. if you continue to give digoxin, you have serious side effects, like digoxin induced cardiac arrhythmias.
What is digibind?
Digibind is a drug that is used in the treatment of digoxin toxixity. It uses antibody fragments to mop up digoxin in the body before escorting it to the kidney where it is excreted.
