Treatment with tablets Gliklazid MB is carried out only in combination with a low-calorie diet with a low carbohydrate content. It is necessary to regularly monitor the glucose level in the blood on an empty stomach and after meals, especially in the first days of treatment with the drug.
Gliklazid MB tablets can be prescribed only to patients receiving regular meals, necessarily including breakfast and ensuring sufficient intake of carbohydrates.
When prescribing the drug, it should be borne in mind that hypoglycemia may develop, due to the administration of sulfonylurea derivatives, and in some cases, in severe and prolonged form, requiring hospitalization and administration of glucose for several days. Hypoglycemia often develops with a low-calorie diet, after prolonged or vigorous exercise, after drinking alcohol or while taking several hypoglycemic drugs at the same time.
In order to avoid the development of hypoglycemia, a careful and individual selection of doses is necessary, as well as providing the patient with complete information about the proposed treatment.
With physical and emotional overstrain, when changing the diet regime, a dose adjustment of Gliklazid MB tablets is necessary.
Particularly sensitive to the effects of hypoglycemic drugs: the elderly; patients who do not receive a balanced diet, with a general weakened state; patients suffering from pituitary-adrenal insufficiency.
Beta-blockers, clonidine, reserpine, guanethidine may mask the clinical manifestations of hypoglycemia.
Patients should be warned about the increased risk of hypoglycemia in cases of taking ethanol, NSAIDs, with fasting.
In the case of taking ethanol (alcohol), it is also possible to develop a disulfiram-like syndrome (abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, headache).
Large surgical interventions and trauma, extensive burns, infectious diseases with febrile syndrome may require the abolition of oral hypoglycemic drugs and the appointment of insulin therapy.
It is possible to develop secondary drug resistance (it is necessary to distinguish from the primary drug, in which the drug already at the first appointment does not give the expected clinical effect).
Against the background of tablets Gliclazide CF, the patient should refrain from drinking alcohol and / or containing ethanol preparations and food products.
During the treatment with Gliclazide MB tablets, the patient should regularly determine glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels in the blood, the glucose content in the urine.
During the treatment period, care must be taken when driving vehicles and engaging in other potentially hazardous activities that require increased concentration and speed of psychomotor reactions.