Xarelto 15 mg (Rivaroxaban)

What is Xarelto 15 mg?

Xarelto 15 mg Tablet is a medicine known as an anticoagulant or blood thinner. It helps prevent and treat blood clots. Xarelto 15mg Tablet is used to reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack. It prevents and treats clot formation in the veins of your legs, lungs, brain and heart.

Xarelto 15mg Tablet is commonly used in patients with irregular heart rhythm (atrial fibrillation) to prevent clot formation. It also reduces the risk of getting clots in people who have undergone knee or hip replacement surgeries. It may be taken with or without food. Take it at the same time each day for maximum benefits. You may need to take this medicine for many years, even for life in some cases. Do not stop taking it or change the dose without guidance from your doctor. It could quickly put you more at risk of having a heart attack, stroke, or thrombosis (formation of a blood clot within a blood vessel). You can reduce your risk of having a blood clot by making changes to your lifestyle, such as not smoking, eating a healthy diet, getting regular exercise, and losing weight if you need to.

How Xarelto 15 mg Tablet Works

Xarelto 15mg Tablet is a novel oral anticoagulant (NOAC). It works by stopping a clotting factor called factor Xa from working. This helps prevent the formation of blood clots in the body.

How To Use Xarelto 15 mg Tablet

Take this medicine in the dose and duration as advised by your doctor. Swallow it as a whole. Do not chew, crush or break it. Xarelto 15mg Tablet may be taken with or without food, but it is better to take it at a fix time.

Benefits Of Xarelto 15 mg Tablet

In the Treatment and prevention of Blood clots

Xarelto 15mg Tablet is a type of medicine know as an anticoagulant. Although it does not “dissolve” blood clots, it can prevent them from getting bigger so your body can dissolve them over time. It will also prevent new ones from forming. It works by blocking a substance in the body which is involved in blood clotting. This keeps your blood flowing freely around your body and makes it less likely that a clot will form inside a blood vessel.
Xarelto 15mg Tablet can help prevent or reduce damage caused by stroke, clots in your lungs (pulmonary embolism) or other blood vessels (thrombosis). It can also make it less likely that parts of a clot will break off and travel to other parts of the body. You should take it regularly and make appropriate lifestyle changes to help this medicine be effective.

Side Effects Of Xarelto 15 mg Tablet

Most side effects do not require any medical attention and disappear as your body adjusts to the medicine. Consult your doctor if they persist or if you’re worried about them

Common side effects of Xarelto

• Bleeding

Warnings

Alcohol

Caution is advise when consuming alcohol with Xarelto 15mg Tablet. Please consult your doctor.

Pregnancy

Xarelto 15mg Tablet may be unsafe to use during pregnancy. Although there are limit studies in humans, animal studies have show harmful effects on the developing baby. Your doctor will weigh the benefits and any potential risks before prescribing it to you. Please consult your doctor.

Breast feeding

Xarelto 15mg Tablet is probably unsafe to use during breastfeeding. Limited human data suggests that the drug may pass into the breastmilk and harm the baby.

Driving

Xarelto 15mg Tablet may cause side effects which could affect your ability to drive.

Xarelto 15mg Tablet may cause dizziness or fainting. This may affect your driving ability.

Kidney

Xarelto 15mg Tablet should be use with caution in patients with kidney disease. Dose adjustment of Xarelto 15mg Tablet may be need. Please consult your doctor.

Use of Xarelto 15mg Tablet is not recommend in patients with severe kidney disease.

Liver

Xarelto 15mg Tablet is probably unsafe to use in patients with liver disease and should be avoid. Please consult your doctor.

What If You Forget To Take Xarelto 15 mg Tablet?

If you miss a dose of Xarelto 15mg Tablet, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular schedule. Do not double the dose.

FAQ’s

1. Is Xarelto 15 mg Tablet a blood thinner?

Yes, Xarelto 15mg Tablet is a blood thinner. It is a medication that prevents the blood from clotting within the blood vessels. That also prevents the blood clots from recurring in the blood vessels. It may be prescribe to treat blood clots in the veins of the legs and in the blood vessels of the lungs.

2. Is Xarelto 15 mg Tablet dangerous?

Xarelto 15mg Tablet has numerous beneficial effects, but it has a tendency to make you bleed more than normal come even with minor injuries as it reduces your blood’s clotting ability. Sometimes Xarelto 15mg Tablet may cause serious bleeding which may be dangerous and may need urgent medical attention. This risk may be higher in people taking Xarelto 15mg Tablet along with other blood thinning medications. Contact your doctor if you notice even minor bleeding.

3. What foods should you avoid if you are on blood thinners?

Avoid taking grapefruit and grapefruit juice while taking Xarelto 15mg Tablet. The reason being, grapefruit contains compounds that slow down the metabolism of Xarelto 15mg Tablet and increase the activity leading to bleeding. On the other hand, if you are taking some other blood thinner like warfarin, you should avoid taking any food that increases the activity of vitamin K or increases the clotting of blood. Such food items may include spinach, brussels, sprouts, mustard greens, broccoli, asparagus and green tea. However, the use of these food items is not restricted with Xarelto 15mg Tablet.