Liptin 50mg tablet 10’s

Warnings

Pregnancy
This medication is contraindicated in pregnancy. Consult your physician

Lactation
 
This medication is contraindicated. Consult your physician before breastfeeding.

Driving
Please avoid driving when taking this medicine as it may affect your ability to drive.

Alcohol
Please avoid consuming alcohol when taking this medicine.

Precautions
Patients with moderate to severe renal (kidney) impairment, who are allergic to vildagliptin and patients with heart failure are sensitive to the medicine; in moderate to severe heart failure patients it should be avoided.  Elderly patients who are taking vildagliptin, their liver functioning should be monitored. There may be a risk of pancreatitis (inflammation of pancreas); advise patients of symptoms and discontinue if suspected.

Expert Advice

This medicine is indicated in type 2 diabetes (a disorder characterized by high sugar levels in blood), in combination with pioglitazone or metformin or sulphonylureas.

Side Effects

Bullous (pus filled injury) and exfoliative (injury characterized with shedding of skin) lesions. When taken alone it can cause dizziness; when taken with metformin it can cause tremors (shaking movements), headache, nausea (an urge to vomit), hypoglycaemia (low sugar levels); when taken with sulphonylurea it can cause tremors (shaking movements), headache, nausea (an urge to vomit), asthenia (physical weakness), hypoglycaemia (low sugar levels); when taken with a glitazone it can cause weight gain and peripheral edema (swelling of hands and feet) and with insulin it can cause headache, hypoglycaemia (low sugar levels), GI upset, chills etc.