SILOREX 4 mg & 8 mg

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SILOREX 4mg: Each capsule contains Sildosin 4mg. SILOREX 8mg: Each capsule contains Sildosin 8mg.

Silodosin is used in adult men to treat the urinary symptoms associated with benign enlargement of the prostate (prostatic hyperplasia), such as:

  • difficulty in starting to pass water,
  • a feeling of not completely emptying the bladder,
  • a more frequent need to pass water, even at night

Description

SILOREX brand name for Silodosin, belongs to a group of medicines called alpha1A-adrenoreceptor blockers. Silodosin is selective for the receptors located in the prostate, bladder and urethra. By blocking these receptors, it causes smooth muscle in these tissues to relax. This makes it easier for you to pass water and relieves your symptoms.

Always use this medicine exactly as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure. The recommended dose is one capsule of silodosin 8 mg per day by oral administration. Take the capsule always with food, preferably at the same time every day. Do not break or chew the capsule, but swallow it whole, preferably with a glass of water.

Patients with kidney problems: If you have moderate kidney problems, your doctor may prescribe a different dose.

For this purpose silodosin 4 mg hard capsules are available.

Tell your doctor in particular, if you take:

  • medicines which lower blood pressure (in particular, medicines called alpha1-blockers, such as prazosin or doxazosin) as there may be the potential risk that the effect of these medicines is increased whilst taking silodosin.
  • antifungal medicines (such as ketoconazole or itraconazole), medicines used for HIV-AIDS (such as ritonavir) or medicines used after transplants to prevent organ rejection (such as cyclosporin) because these medicines can increase the blood concentration of silodosin.
  • medicines used for treating problems in getting or keeping an erection (such as sildenafil or tadalafil), since the concomitant use with silodosin might lead to a slight decrease in blood pressure.
  • medicines for epilepsy or rifampicin (a medicine to treat tubercolosis), since the effect of silodosin may be reduced.

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

Contact your doctor immediately if you notice any of the following allergic reactions: swelling of the face or throat, difficulty in breathing, feeling faint, itchy skin or hives since the consequences could become serious.

The most common side effect is a decrease in the amount of semen released during sex. This effect disappears after discontinuation of silodosin. Please inform your doctor if you are planning to have children.

Dizziness, including dizziness when standing up, and occasionally fainting, may occur. If you do feel weak or dizzy, make sure you sit or lie down straight away until the symptoms have disappeared. If dizziness when standing up or fainting occurs, please inform your doctor as soon as possible.

Silodosin may cause complications during a cataract surgery (eye surgery because of cloudiness of the lens. It is important that you immediately inform your eye specialist if you are using or have previously used silodosin.

The possible side effects are listed below:

Very Common Side effect:

  • Abnormal ejaculation

Common side effects:

  • Dizziness, including dizziness when standing up
  • Runny or blocked nose
  • Diarrhoea

Uncommon side effects:

  • Decreased sexual drive
  • Nausea
  • Dry mouth
  • Difficulties in getting or keeping an erection
  • Faster heart rate
  • Symptoms of allergic reaction affecting the skin like rash, itching, hives and rash caused by a medicine
  • Abnormal results of liver function tests
  • Low blood pressure

Rare side effects

  • Fast or irregular heartbeats (called palpitations)
  • Fainting/ Loss of consciousness

Very rare side effects

  • Other allergic reactions with swelling of the face or throat

Not known:

  • Floppy pupil during cataract surgery

If you feel that your sexual life is affected, please tell your doctor.

Do not take Silodosin Capsules:

  • if you are allergic (hypersensitive) to Silodosin.

Warnings and precautions:

Talk to your doctor before taking Silodosin:

  • If you are undergoing eye surgery because of cloudiness of the lens (cataract surgery), it is important that you immediately inform your eye specialist that you are using or have previously used Silodosin. This is because some patients treated with this kind of medicine experienced a loss of muscle tone in the iris (the coloured circular part of the eye) during such a surgery. The specialist can take appropriate precautions with respect to medicine and surgical techniques to be used. Ask your doctor whether or not you should postpone or temporarily stop taking Silodosin when undergoing cataract surgery.
  • If you have ever fainted or felt dizzy when suddenly standing up, please inform your doctor before taking Silodosin. Dizziness when standing up and occasionally fainting may occur when taking silodosin, particularly when starting treatment or if you are taking other medicines that lower blood pressure. If this occurs, make sure you sit or lie down straight away until the symptoms have disappeared and inform your doctor as soon as possible.
  • If you have severe liver problems, you should not take silodosin, as it was not tested in this condition.
  • If you have problems with your kidneys, please ask your doctor for advice. If you have moderate kidney problems, your doctor will start silodosin with caution and possibly with a lower dose. If you have severe kidney problems, you should not take silodosin.
  • Since a benign enlargement of the prostate and prostate cancer may present the same symptoms, your doctor will check you for prostate cancer before starting treatment with silodosin. Silodosin does not treat prostate cancer.

Children and adolescents: Do not give this medicine to children and adolescents below 18 years since there is no relevant indication for this age group.

Fertility: The treatment with silodosin may lead to an abnormal ejaculation (decrease in the amount of semen released during sex) that may temporarily affect male fertility. This effect disappears after discontinuation of silodosin. Please inform your doctor if you are planning to have children.

Driving and using machines: Do not drive or operate machines if you feel faint, dizzy, drowsy or have blurred vision.

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Silodosin is used in adult men to treat the urinary symptoms associated with benign enlargement of the prostate (prostatic hyperplasia), such as:

  • difficulty in starting to pass water,
  • a feeling of not completely emptying the bladder,
  • a more frequent need to pass water, even at night

Description

SILOREX brand name for Silodosin, belongs to a group of medicines called alpha1A-adrenoreceptor blockers. Silodosin is selective for the receptors located in the prostate, bladder and urethra. By blocking these receptors, it causes smooth muscle in these tissues to relax. This makes it easier for you to pass water and relieves your symptoms.

Always use this medicine exactly as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure. The recommended dose is one capsule of silodosin 8 mg per day by oral administration. Take the capsule always with food, preferably at the same time every day. Do not break or chew the capsule, but swallow it whole, preferably with a glass of water.

Patients with kidney problems: If you have moderate kidney problems, your doctor may prescribe a different dose.

For this purpose silodosin 4 mg hard capsules are available.

Tell your doctor in particular, if you take:

  • medicines which lower blood pressure (in particular, medicines called alpha1-blockers, such as prazosin or doxazosin) as there may be the potential risk that the effect of these medicines is increased whilst taking silodosin.
  • antifungal medicines (such as ketoconazole or itraconazole), medicines used for HIV-AIDS (such as ritonavir) or medicines used after transplants to prevent organ rejection (such as cyclosporin) because these medicines can increase the blood concentration of silodosin.
  • medicines used for treating problems in getting or keeping an erection (such as sildenafil or tadalafil), since the concomitant use with silodosin might lead to a slight decrease in blood pressure.
  • medicines for epilepsy or rifampicin (a medicine to treat tubercolosis), since the effect of silodosin may be reduced.

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

Contact your doctor immediately if you notice any of the following allergic reactions: swelling of the face or throat, difficulty in breathing, feeling faint, itchy skin or hives since the consequences could become serious.

The most common side effect is a decrease in the amount of semen released during sex. This effect disappears after discontinuation of silodosin. Please inform your doctor if you are planning to have children.

Dizziness, including dizziness when standing up, and occasionally fainting, may occur. If you do feel weak or dizzy, make sure you sit or lie down straight away until the symptoms have disappeared. If dizziness when standing up or fainting occurs, please inform your doctor as soon as possible.

Silodosin may cause complications during a cataract surgery (eye surgery because of cloudiness of the lens. It is important that you immediately inform your eye specialist if you are using or have previously used silodosin.

The possible side effects are listed below:

Very Common Side effect:

  • Abnormal ejaculation

Common side effects:

  • Dizziness, including dizziness when standing up
  • Runny or blocked nose
  • Diarrhoea

Uncommon side effects:

  • Decreased sexual drive
  • Nausea
  • Dry mouth
  • Difficulties in getting or keeping an erection
  • Faster heart rate
  • Symptoms of allergic reaction affecting the skin like rash, itching, hives and rash caused by a medicine
  • Abnormal results of liver function tests
  • Low blood pressure

Rare side effects

  • Fast or irregular heartbeats (called palpitations)
  • Fainting/ Loss of consciousness

Very rare side effects

  • Other allergic reactions with swelling of the face or throat

Not known:

  • Floppy pupil during cataract surgery

If you feel that your sexual life is affected, please tell your doctor.

Do not take Silodosin Capsules:

  • if you are allergic (hypersensitive) to Silodosin.

Warnings and precautions:

Talk to your doctor before taking Silodosin:

  • If you are undergoing eye surgery because of cloudiness of the lens (cataract surgery), it is important that you immediately inform your eye specialist that you are using or have previously used Silodosin. This is because some patients treated with this kind of medicine experienced a loss of muscle tone in the iris (the coloured circular part of the eye) during such a surgery. The specialist can take appropriate precautions with respect to medicine and surgical techniques to be used. Ask your doctor whether or not you should postpone or temporarily stop taking Silodosin when undergoing cataract surgery.
  • If you have ever fainted or felt dizzy when suddenly standing up, please inform your doctor before taking Silodosin. Dizziness when standing up and occasionally fainting may occur when taking silodosin, particularly when starting treatment or if you are taking other medicines that lower blood pressure. If this occurs, make sure you sit or lie down straight away until the symptoms have disappeared and inform your doctor as soon as possible.
  • If you have severe liver problems, you should not take silodosin, as it was not tested in this condition.
  • If you have problems with your kidneys, please ask your doctor for advice. If you have moderate kidney problems, your doctor will start silodosin with caution and possibly with a lower dose. If you have severe kidney problems, you should not take silodosin.
  • Since a benign enlargement of the prostate and prostate cancer may present the same symptoms, your doctor will check you for prostate cancer before starting treatment with silodosin. Silodosin does not treat prostate cancer.

Children and adolescents: Do not give this medicine to children and adolescents below 18 years since there is no relevant indication for this age group.

Fertility: The treatment with silodosin may lead to an abnormal ejaculation (decrease in the amount of semen released during sex) that may temporarily affect male fertility. This effect disappears after discontinuation of silodosin. Please inform your doctor if you are planning to have children.

Driving and using machines: Do not drive or operate machines if you feel faint, dizzy, drowsy or have blurred vision.

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