Digitalis heart medicines: Taking these medicines with calcium channel blockers may increase the action of the heart medication.
Cyclosporine (Sandimmune), a medicine that suppresses the immune system. Effects may increase if this drug is taken with calcium channel blockers.
Anti-seizure medications such as carbamazepine (Tegretol). Calcium channel drugs may increase the effects of these medicines.
Nothing will happen if you mix Zithromax with grapefruit. The only types of drugs that are affected by grapefruits are sedatives, antianxiety agents, calcium channel blockers, and statins.
The effects of taking calcium channel blockers during pregnancy have not been studied in humans.
Medicines used to correct irregular heart rhythms, such as quinidine (Quinidex), disopyramide (Norpace), and procainamide (Procan, Pronestyl). The effects of these drugs may increase if used with calcium channel blockers.
Calcium channel blockers are available only with a physician's prescription and are sold in tablet, capsule, and injectable forms.
No, side effects of calcium channel blockers do not contain hair loss.
Calcium channel blockers will not cure high blood pressure, but will help to control the condition.
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Nifedipine.
The discovery of calcium channel blockers is attributed to two scientists, Albrecht Fleckenstein and Wilhelm Siegmund. Fleckenstein first characterized the mechanism of action of calcium channel blockers in the 1960s, while Siegmund later identified verapamil as the first calcium channel blocker used clinically.