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Information for Patients
Physicians should consider reminding the patient of the following: To take each dose without crushing, chewing or sucking the tablets. Text Continues Below
To take each dose with meals and with a full glass of water or other liquid.
To take this medicine following the frequency and amount prescribed by the physician. This is especially important if the patient is also taking diuretics and/ or digitalis preparations. To check with the physician if there is trouble swallowing the tablets or if the tablets seem to stick in the throat. To check with the physician at once if tarry stools or other evidence of gas-trointestinal bleeding is noticed. To be aware that the expended matrix is not absorbed and may be excreted intact in the stool. Laboratory Tests: When blood is drawn for analysis of plasma potassium it is important to recognize that artifactual elevations can occur after improper venipuncture technique or as a result of in vitro hemolysis of the sample.
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