Digoxin Orion Semi
Digoxin Orion helps your heart beat regularly and strongly, which treats irregular heartbeats and heart failure.
How to Use
Dosage
For adults and children over 10: Usually 0.75-1.5 mg once to start, or 0.25-0.75 mg daily for a week. The daily dose for continued use is usually 0.125-0.25 mg.
Method
Take these tablets by mouth exactly as your doctor tells you. You can take them with or without food, but avoid high-fiber meals, as they can reduce how much medicine your body absorbs.
The usual daily dose for continued treatment is 0.125-0.25 mg. Your doctor will decide your specific maximum daily dose, especially for initial high doses.
Possible Side Effects
- •Dizziness
- •Vision problems (blurred or yellow-green vision)
- •Irregular heartbeats, changes in heart's electrical activity (ECG changes)
- •Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
- •Allergic skin reactions (rash, hives)
- •Depression
- •Low platelet count (easy bruising, nosebleeds)
- •Loss of appetite
- •Mental changes (psychosis, apathy, confusion)
- •Headache
- •Abnormal heart rate (other than common irregular heartbeats)
- •Severe stomach pain, caused by poor blood flow to the intestines which can lead to damage
- •Breast enlargement in men (gynecomastia)
- •Fatigue, general feeling of being unwell, weakness
Important Warnings
- Do not take this medicine if you have certain severe heart blockages or have had Adams-Stokes attacks (sudden fainting due to heart rhythm changes).
- Do not take if your irregular heartbeats are caused by too much digoxin in your body.
- Do not take if you have a condition affecting nerve signals between your heart's upper and lower chambers (e.g., Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome).
- Do not take if you have or have had very fast and irregular heartbeats from your heart's lower chambers (ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation).
- Do not take if you have a heart muscle disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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- Do not take if you are allergic to digoxin, other similar heart medicines (cardiac glycosides), or any other ingredient in this medicine.
Use in Elderly Patients
Suitable for older adults, with specific precautions. Reduce the dose already in mild renal impairment. Maximun daily dose: 0,125 mg. In older adults, concentration should be less than 1. Concentration determination whenever renal function changes. Consider potential interactions. (updated 19.5.2025)