Candan Tablet

Directions:
•This is a long-term treatment.
•Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure. It is important to keep taking CANDAN every day.
•You can take CANDAN with or without food. Swallow the tablet with a drink of water. Try to take the tablet at the same time each day. This will help you remember to take it.
•The tablet cannot be divided into equal doses.
•To treat high blood pressure:
-The recommended starting dose is 8 mg once a day. Your doctor may increase this dose up to 32 mg once a day depending on blood pressure response. In some patients, such as those with liver problems, kidney problems or those who recently have lost body fluids, e.g. through vomiting or diarrhoea or by using water tablets, the doctor may prescribe a lower starting dose. Some black patients may have a reduced response to this type of medicine when given as the only treatment; these patients may need a higher dose.To treat heart failure: The recommended starting dose of candesartan is 4 mg once a day. Your doctor may increase your dose by doubling the dose at intervals of at least 2 weeks up to 32 mg once a day. CANDAN can be taken together with other medicines for heart failure, and your doctor will decide which treatment is
suitable for you.
• Use in children and adolescents with high blood pressure:
-Children 6 to 18 years of age: The recommended starting dose is 4 mg once daily. For patients weighing less than 50 kg your doctor may decide the dose needs to be increased to a maximum of 8 mg once daily.
• For patients weighing 50 kg or more your doctor may decide the dose needs to be increased to 8 mg once daily and then to 16 mg once daily, if needed.

Active Ingredient(s):
Candesartan cilexetil