Beers, Mark H., and Robert Berkow, editors. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 17th ed. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Company, Inc., 1999.
Calcium channel blockers are available only with a physician's prescription and are sold in tablet, capsule, and injectable forms.
Grapefruit juice may increase the effects of some calcium channel blockers.
The effects of taking calcium channel blockers during pregnancy have not been studied in humans.
No, side effects of calcium channel blockers do not contain hair loss.
Calcium channel blockers will not cure high blood pressure, but will help to control the condition.
Digitalis heart medicines: Taking these medicines with calcium channel blockers may increase the action of the heart medication.
The discovery of calcium channel blockers is attributed to two scientists, Albrecht Fleckenstein and Wilhelm Siegmund. Fleckenstein first characterized the mechanism of action of calcium channel blockers in the 1960s, while Siegmund later identified verapamil as the first calcium channel blocker used clinically.
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Nifedipine.
There are many chemical drugs which are natural calcium channel blockers. Some include Diltiazem, Amlodipine, Verapimil, and Nifedipine. Many more are available however some are not allowed for sale in the USA.
Some calcium channel blockers pass into breast milk, but there have been no reports of problems in nursing babies whose mothers were taking this type of medication.
Taking calcium channel blockers with certain other drugs may affect the way the drugs work or may increase the chance of side effects.