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Important Precautions
- Tell your health-care practitioner if you are sensitive or allergic to clonidine or to any other drugs.
- Do not take clonidine if you have a recent history of heart attack or have chronic kidney failure, blood vessel disease in the brain, or cardiac insufficiency.
- Do not stop taking clonidine without your health-care practitioner’s supervision. Suddenly stopping clonidine can lead to a sudden rise in blood pressure, agitation, nervousness, headache, and possibly death.
- If you have a history of mental depression or Raynaud’s syndrome, clonidine can make them worse.
- Use of the transdermal patch is not recommended if you have lupus, scleroderma, or polyarteritis nodosa as absorption of the drug into the body is blocked.
- Tolerance to clonidine occurs in some people. If this happens, your blood pressure will rise and your health-care practitioner will need to adjust your dosage.
Pregnant Women
Clonidine crosses the placenta, and animal studies show that it can cause harmful effects to the fetus. If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant and this drug is essential for your health, you and your health-care practitioner must weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks to the fetus.
Clonidine passes into breast milk. If you are breastfeeding, your health-care practitioner may advise you to stop until your treatment is done.
Seniors
Seniors should begin with a lower starting dose. They also are more susceptible to the side effects.
| Text from The Complete Pill Book, copyright 2005 by Barnes & Noble Publishing. | Acknowledgments & Disclaimer |
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