The active ingredient in the composition is Duspatalin mebeverin hydrochloride, which belongs to the antispasmodic. Duspatalin has a relaxing effect on the muscles of the intestine. This weakens painful muscle spasms, but does not affect intestinal motility.
How does Duspatalin?
Duspatalin used to relieve the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and related disorders of the digestive system, resulting from intestinal muscle spasms. In particular, Duspatalin helps eliminate symptoms such as cramps, pain and cramps in the abdomen, as well as diarrhea, constipation, flatulence and bloating.
In most cases, the medicament must be taken three times a day, preferably for 20 minutes before a meal, because it helps to cope with the symptoms that frequently worsen after eating.
A few weeks after the start of Duspatalin when they become noticeable improvement, the dose can be gradually reduced.
Components Duspatalin not accumulate in the body even after prolonged use.
Indications:
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Spasms of the gastrointestinal tract
Duspatalin should be taken with caution and under medical supervision at porphyria - a congenital blood disease.
Contraindications
Duspatalin not take children under 10 years. It is also contraindicated in the presence of allergy to any of the components. If you have previously been allergic to mebeverin, inform your doctor. If after a certain time after the start of Duspatalin you notice signs of an allergic reaction (the most common ones are nausea, vomiting and skin rash), stop taking the medication and consult a physician.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women can take Duspatalin only if it is really necessary, and receive safer alternative medication for any reason impossible. In this case, during the course of treatment a woman should carefully monitor their state of health and the condition of the child. If there are any warning signs you need to interrupt treatment and consult a physician.
Duspatalin is a prescription drug. If you have ever been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and your home remains unused Duspatalin - when re-emergence of symptoms to use this drug is quite safe.
However, if you are not sure that you have irritable bowel syndrome, it is strongly recommended to consult a doctor before starting treatment. It should also be done if you are pregnant or suspect that you are pregnant, if you have recently traveled abroad, and if you have any abnormal vaginal discharge
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along with symptoms similar to the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
Side effects
Duspatalin is a relatively safe drug. In some patients when taking an allergic reaction may occur, the symptoms of which are: rash, itching, swelling of the lips, face or tongue (angioedema). Furthermore, Duspatalin may cause short dizziness
Dizziness - if the ground is slipping from under his feet
. Despite the fact that this side effect is very rare, it is not recommended to drive for several hours after the first dose Duspatalin.
Duspatalin special feature is that the reduction of intestinal muscle is not completely suppressed, thereby lifting the one hand increased physical activity of the muscles, and on the other - keeps normal peristalsis.
Duspatalin many times more effective than papaverine
Papaverine - for pain caused by spasms of smooth muscles
by the ability to relax the muscles of the sphincter of Oddi (muscle formation surrounding the end portions of the common bile duct, which flows into the duodenum 12).
Unlike some drugs (e.g., atropine, which is also capable to remove spasms of smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract) Duspatalin not block the work of acetylcholine receptors, which means that when the reception does not appear dry mouth, loss of visual acuity, not less control over voluntary movements, not accelerated pulse.
After ingestion Duspatalin affects the smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, then decomposed by the liver and excreted mainly by the kidneys as metabolic products in small quantities - bile.
Duspatalin produced in the form of capsules, retard, that provide for gradual release of the active substance and its long-term effect (16 hours). The drug does not accumulate in the body even after repeated administration.
Release form, method of use and possible overdose
Duspatalin available as capsules retard long-acting 200 mg. Take it to the capsule (not liquid) twice a day for 20 minutes before meals with water. When the desired effect of the multiplicity of reception Duspatalin gradually.
Overdose can occur if the dose exceeds the accepted therapeutic. Overdose manifested by increased excitability of the central nervous system. In such cases, wash out the stomach (drink about a liter of cold water and induce vomiting by pressing the finger on the root of the tongue) and take about 10 tablets of activated charcoal
Activated carbon - old but indispensable
, Which will settle the remnants of the drug and are eliminated from the body with feces.
Duspatalin here for 35 years produced an international chemical and pharmaceutical concern Solvay Pharmaceuticals, and is used to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and biliary tract. This is a very effective drug, which also has virtually no side effects, so it can be used even disposable, for rapid removal of abdominal pain.