Product Description:

• Vdia used to treat adult patients with type 2 diabetes. It is used when diabetes cannot be controlled by diet and exercise alone. It helps to control the level of sugar in the blood.
• Your doctor will prescribe Vdia either alone or together with certain other antidiabetic medicines which you will already be taking, if these have not proved sufficiently effective to control diabetes.

How to use:

• The usual dose of Vdia is either:
• 50 mg daily taken as one dose in the morning if you are taking Vdia with another medicine called a sulphonylurea.
• 100 mg daily taken as 50 mg in the morning and 50 mg in the evening if you are taking Vdia alone, with another medicine called metformin or a glitazone, with a combination of metformin and a sulphonylurea, or with insulin.
• 50 mg daily in the morning if you have moderate or severe kidney disease or if you are on dialysis.
• How to take Vdia
• Swallow the tablets whole with some water.
• How long to take Vdia
• Take Vdia every day for as long as your doctor tells you. You may have to take this treatment over a long period of time.
• Your doctor will regularly monitor your condition to check that the treatment is having the desired effect.

Caution & Warnings:

Talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse before taking Vdia:

• if you have type 1 diabetes (i.e. your body does not produce insulin) or if you have a condition called diabetic ketoacidosis.
• if you are taking an anti-diabetic medicine known as a sulphonylurea (your doctor may want to reduce your dose of the sulphonylurea when you take it together with Vdia in order to avoid low blood glucose [hypoglycaemia]).
• if you have moderate or severe kidney disease (you will need to take a lower dose of Vdia).
• if you are on dialysis.
• if you have liver disease.
• if you suffer from heart failure.
• if you have or have had a disease of the pancreas.
• If you have previously taken vildagliptin but had to stop taking it because of liver disease, you should not take this medicine.

Ingredients:

• The active substance is Vildagliptin.
• Each tablet contains 50 mg of Vildagliptin.