Ezetimibe is a kind of medication to regulate blood lipids, which can be taken for a long time, and the blood lipids are checked after 1 month of taking it, and the time of taking it should also be decided according to the patient’s own condition, blood lipids, and the patient’s tolerance level.
If the patient is intolerant to statin drugs and cannot reach the standard of blood lipid through diet control alone, then he needs to take ezetimibe for a long time.
If the patient is in the acute stage of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, then after the condition is stabilized, you can try to stop taking ezetimibe, and use statins alone to observe the change of the condition.
If the patient can’t lower the blood lipid with statin alone, then ezetimibe can be used in combination, which also needs to be taken for a long period of time.
If patients taking ezetimibe experience side effects such as abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, etc., they need to stop taking this drug. Contraindications to ezetimibe are patients in the active phase of liver disease or unexplained persistent elevation of serum aminotransferases.
The drug should be used in all cases as prescribed by the doctor.