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Why loop diuretic give befor breakfast?

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Dr. Stephen Southard answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Best time to: Ideally patients are instructed to take a diuretic, loop/thiazide or potassium sparing, in the morning. The reason being revolves around their mechanisms of action, which cause a patient to urinate. It is better that someone urinate throughout the day and much less so at night, so that he/she can sleep.

Answered 6/20/2014

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