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What is GTN Spray (Glyceryl Trinitrate)?
Glyceryl trinitrate, or GTN, is a type of medicine called nitrate. It is used to treat angina (chest pain).
It can help stop chest pain if an angina attack has already started.
It can also help to prevent them from starting. GTN Spray is a smooth muscle relaxant, which means as your arteries and veins are made of smooth muscle, it helps to relax them quickly and effectively to widen these vessels providing relief from angina attack.
It comes as GTN tablets or as a spray that you put under your tongue. When taken this way it is absorbed quickly into your system. It also comes as patches and ointment that you put on your skin.
Sometimes GTN patches are used in hospitals to make it your veins easier to see if you need to have a drip (infusion).
It's a good idea to learn how to take your GTN spray as soon as you get them. You might need to use them in a hurry if you get an angina attack.
Keep your spray with you all the time, so you can use it if you get chest pain.
You can read the full patient information leaflet here.
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