Metformin is a medicine used to treat diabetes, to normalize high blood sugar levels and reduce the complications of diabetes, and can be used alone or together with insulin.
The drug can be sold commercially under the names Glifage, Risidon, Diaformin or Glucormim and is produced by Medley, Torrent, Merck, EMS, Novartis and Bristol. This oral antidiabetic can only be bought in pharmacies in the form of tablets after medical recommendation.
Price
The price of Metformin varies with the brand and quantity of tablets in the box, which can cost between 5 and 115 reais.
Indications
This medicine is an oral antidiabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, alone or in combination with other oral antidiabetic agents. It can also be used to control type 1 diabetes simultaneously with insulin intake.
In addition, in some situations it is indicated in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
How to use
The mode of use of Metformin should be doctor-directed, which may indicate taking 500 mg, 800 mg or 1 g tablets divided into 2 or 3 daily doses taken with meals such as breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Treatment begins with small doses and is gradually increased, with the maximum daily dose being 3000 mg.
Side effects
Metformin side effects usually only occur within the first 2 weeks of initiation of treatment and include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.
In the long run the effects of this medicine are the reduction of blood glucose, reduction of total cholesterol, partial and triglycerides, but there may also be a decrease in the absorption of vitamin B12 and folate.
Contraindications
Metformin is contraindicated during pregnancy in alcoholic patients and children under 10 years of age.
Understand why Metformin is thinner.
