Information on drug Crestor
| Crestor is also known as “Rosuvastatin Calcium”). It is a type of statin drug which lowers triglycerides (bad cholesterol) and raises good cholesterol in bloodstream. |
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People who takes Crestor should exercise and have low-fat diet. In fact, it recommends that you should have low fat diet and routine exercise before Crestor treating. Exercise and low diet should also continue during treatment.
Generally, Crestor can be taken with or without food in a daily single does. Five to Forty mg is a typical daily dosage. It is advisable to start out with the lowest possible dosage. Never start using Crestor at 40 mg. Your lipid levels should improve within two to four weeks after taking Crestor. You can adjust your dose as necessary after two to four weeks.
FDA issues warning about Crestor on March 2005. Crestor and other stati drugs has been reported to do serious muscle damage. Crestor is revising their label to highlight to reduce the risk of potential serious damage, especially at their highest does of 40 mg.
Furthermore, Crestor has been reported to have two times higher effects in Asian patients comparing to Caucasian patients for the same amount of usage. Therefore, it is important to start taking Crestor at dose of 5 mg, especially for Asian patients.
Although FDA does not have evidence to conclude that Crestor and other statin drugs damage kidney, some patients reported that there might be some connections.
The drug manufacture has legal responsibility to make the drug as safe as possible. If they fail to provide adequate warnings about the nature of the drugs, , they will be responsible for pharmaceutical liability case.
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