Amitrid Mite
Amitrid Mite is a diuretic medicine that helps your body get rid of extra water and salt, lowers blood pressure, and helps with heart failure and swelling, while saving potassium.
Form
tabletti
Strength
2.5 mg / 25 mg
Active Ingredient
Amiloride hydrochloride dihydrate
Manufacturer
Orifarm Healthcare A/S
How to Use
Dosage
½-4 tablets once daily.
Method
Tablets can be divided into equal doses.
Important
Maximum 4 tablets per day.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Headache, feeling weak, dizzy, tired
- •High blood sugar, high uric acid (can cause gout), potassium levels too high or too low, loss of appetite
- •Shortness of breath, cough
- •Feeling sick to your stomach (nausea), diarrhea, stomach pain
- •Skin rash, itching
- •Irregular heartbeat
RARE
- •Thirst, dehydration, gout
- •Bad taste in mouth, throwing up, constipation, gas, hiccups, upper abdominal discomfort
- •Allergic skin reactions
- •Chest pain, fast heartbeat, sudden drop in blood pressure when standing up
- •Erectile dysfunction (impotence)
- •Numbness or tingling in skin
- •Trouble seeing, eye pain
- •Mild mood changes, trouble sleeping, nervousness, sadness
- •Muscle, joint pain or cramps
- •Needing to urinate often at night, painful urination, trouble holding urine
- •Fainting
- •Unbalanced salt levels in blood
- •Bleeding in stomach/gut, inflamed pancreas
- •Skin sensitivity to light
- •Kidney problems
- •Severe upper belly pain (from blocked bile flow)
- •Severe allergic reactions
- •Changes in blood tests, anemia (low red blood cells)
- •Fluid in lungs (pulmonary edema)
- •Bruises, sores
- •Yellow skin or eyes (jaundice)
- •Sudden severe breathing problems (with fever, weakness, confusion)
- •Low magnesium
- •Stuffy nose
- •Dry mouth
- •Skin and lip cancer (non-melanoma type)
Important Warnings
- Do not use if you are allergic to this medicine or its ingredients.
- Do not use if you have severe kidney failure.
- Do not use if your blood potassium levels are too high (above 5.5 mmol/L).
- Tell your doctor if you are taking other potassium-sparing medicines or potassium supplements.
- Contact your doctor immediately if you develop vision problems, eye pain, or severe breathing difficulties.
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- Contact your doctor immediately if your skin or whites of your eyes turn yellow, or if you have skin bleeding or mouth ulcers.
- Protect your skin from sun and UV radiation, as this medicine may increase the risk of skin cancer.
Use in Elderly Patients
Category C
Suitable for older adults, with specific precautions. Effectiveness is reduced in renal impairment. Consider risk of orthostatic hypotension and hyponatraemia and -kalemia. (updated 19.5.2025)