Medicine pack check sheet

Source-linked reading points

• Check ALDACTONE, spironolactone, 25, 50 or 100 mg per tablet, oral-tablet form, actual NDC and target market together. Milligrams are the labelled amount in an exact tablet, not a web rule for personal tablet count, alternate-day use or replacing one pack with another.
• The label includes warnings about hyperkalaemia, worsening renal function, hypotension and electrolyte abnormalities, and flags potassium supplements, high-potassium foods and salt substitutes for review. These do not let a website decide whether an individual should use or avoid a product; take the packs, supplements, OTC products and complete medicine list to a pharmacist or clinician.
• “Diuretic”, “aldosterone antagonist” and “potassium-sparing” are class clues; they do not permit self-combining, alternating or replacing ALDACTONE with another diuretic, blood-pressure medicine, heart-failure medicine, potassium product or herb. Strength, dosage form, target-market label, prior reactions and test results all need review together.
• The label identifies other potassium-raising products, NSAIDs (common in pain or fever medicines) and lithium as co-medication clues requiring professional review. NSAIDs may reduce diuretic, natriuretic or antihypertensive effects, while diuretics may reduce lithium clearance and increase lithium-toxicity risk. When these names appear, the complete medicine list, kidney function and relevant tests need review rather than self-separating timing, stopping or changing an amount.