It increases water and salt loss through the urine. Many people avoid salt and take diuretic drugs, like Lasix (furosemide), to manage serious health conditions including heart failure and kidney ...

Although diuretics do not directly treat the pathologic changes that occur with heart failure, they are the mainstay of symptomatic treatment to remove excess extracellular fluid, thus alleviating ...

A nasal spray would be a workaround for drug resistance seen with oral diuretics, with the potential to reduce hospital ...

The ability of thiazide-type diuretics to reduce BP seems to be linked to the presence of functioning renal tissue; thus, these drugs will not reduce BP in hemodialysis patients. [6] ...

A new nasal spray form of the medication bumetanide may reduce the tissue swelling caused by heart failure as effectively as ...

Pennington Biomedical Research Center researchers at the Metamor Institute, along with colleagues from Our Lady of the Lake and LSU Health-New Orleans, have recently determined that metabolic surgery ...

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia is a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland Read this article to know how this ...

Nocturnal leg cramps (NLC) are common, painful, but usually not serious occurrences. They are the involuntary contractions of ...