Triamterene is a potassium-sparing diuretic (water pill) that prevents your body from absorbing too much salt and keeps your potassium levels from getting too low. Triamterene is used to treat fluid retention in people with congestive heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver, or a kidney condition called nephrotic syndrome. Triamterene is also used to treat edema caused by using steroid medicine or having too much aldosterone in your body.
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These include sweeper tentacles, mesenterial filaments, and terpenoid compounds (Ates, 1989). The picture at the right depicts incompatabilities between several coral species. Incompatabilities may be indicated by a color change, such as the white discoloration of part of the finger leather coral on the left. In reaction to nearby corals, the large tan mushroom coral in the middle has concentrated its poison in the white ends of its tentacles.