Description
USE
Ramipril is a medicine widely used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart failure. It's also prescribed after a heart attack. Ramipril helps prevent future strokes, heart attacks and kidney problems. It also improves your survival if you're taking it for heart failure or after a heart attack
Common side effects
- A dry, tickly cough that does not get better. Cough medicines do not usually help for coughs caused by ramipril. ...
- Feeling dizzy or lightheaded, especially when you stand up or sit up quickly. ...
- Headaches. ...
- Diarrhoea. ...
- Being sick (vomiting) ...
- A mild skin rash. ...
- Blurred vision.
Call your doctor right away if you have a rash, itching, hoarseness, trouble breathing, trouble swallowing, or any swelling of your hands, face, lips, tongue, or throat while you are using this medicine. Call your doctor right away if you have severe stomach pain (with or without nausea or vomiting).