In clinical practice, the digestive enzyme commonly prescribed drugs that improve the function, for example, festal. Indications for use festal may vary from these severe hereditary diseases such as cystic fibrosis to digestive disorders in healthy people associated with defects in power.

Indications for use festal in diseases of the digestive system

With prolonged duration of various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas Diabetes and pancreas - the things you need to know , Liver or biliary tract in varying degrees, reduced function of the patient's body, and this, in turn, can not affect the rest of the state organs and the whole process of digestion.

Festal is an enzyme preparation, which consists of pancreatin Pancreatin - a means to improve digestion , Hemicellulase and dry extract of bovine blood. Pancreatin - a complex enzyme preparation, having in its composition proteins digesting enzymes (proteases), fats (lipase) and carbohydrates (amylase). The drug is available in the form of pills, coated tablets, dissolves in the duodenum. After dissolution of all components included in the festal digestion and promote proper digestion.

As a result of the exchange rate or DC (depending on the disease and the function of the digestive system) application festal food is digested without the formation of toxic substances and gases, being the patient recovers. In addition, partially restored and a private enzymatic activity of the digestive system of the patient - festal stimulates this process.

Festal (readings determined by the physician) is prescribed for chronic gastritis with low gastric secretory function, chronic gastroduodenitis, malabsorption of certain substances in the small intestine (malabsorption syndrome), chronic inflammatory processes in the pancreas (chronic pancreatitis), cystic fibrosis Cystic fibrosis: early diagnosis - the key to recovery   (a hereditary disease in which the pancreas loses its function), some diseases of the liver and biliary tract, which decreases the secretion of bile, or the process of excretion into the intestinal lumen.

Indications for use in other diseases festal

Some patients with dyspepsia arise against other diseases. For example, digestion is often disturbed in patients who are in a long time stationary - patients with stroke, myocardial infarction, multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis - whether in remission?   and so on. Often indigestion is broken against various operations and injuries, especially after a general anesthesia.

In all these cases come to the aid of enzyme preparations. Festal such patients prescribed courses whose duration and dosage of the drug chosen doctor for each patient individually. If the disease is long, these treatments regularly occasion, patients after surgery or injury sometimes only one - two courses of treatment.

Indications for use before diagnostic studies

Diagnosis is sometimes impossible to lead from the accumulation of large amounts of gas in the intestines of the patient. For example, during X-ray examination of the abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal gas it looks like dark spots on the background that are not visible changes in the studied organs.

To avoid this, two or three days before the study, patients administered festal - it improves digestion, which leads to a decrease in gas formation.

Emergency indications for festal

Sometimes there and urgent indications for festal and not always only sick people. Quite often it is necessary to apply to healthy people. Indications for its use are acute digestive disorders such as nausea, vomiting, flatulence (accumulation of large amounts of gas in the intestines), intestinal colic.

Such events usually occur at various errors in the diet. It is understood that humans, suffering from gastrointestinal disease, such problems are more likely than healthy. However, in healthy people with overeating, drinking large amounts of fatty meat food or sweets may appear digestive disorders. In this case, the extra help festal reception.

Do not just forget that this drug should be taken during or immediately after a meal. It can take two pills three times a day until complete disappearance of the phenomena of discomfort.

Festal - a drug that you can have in your home medicine cabinet.

Galina Romanenko

Hofitol - a drug, providing a direct beneficial effect on the liver and kidneys. It protects the liver and kidneys from toxic effects, including toxic effects of free radicals, reduces intrahepatic bile stasis, possesses choleretic and diuretic action, reduces the content of nitrogen toxic substances in the blood.

Action Chophytol tablets on the body

Hofitol tablets, coated - a herbal drug that has a beneficial effect on the liver and kidneys. Hofitol protects and restores the liver cells, promotes the flow of bile, eliminates or significantly reduces the intrahepatic bile stasis, has an antioxidant effect (inhibits the activity of toxic free radicals formed as a result of oxidation-reduction reactions in the liver cells), has a positive effect on the kidneys, reducing swelling and content nitrogenous substances in the blood caused by the disturbance of their function.

The composition of each tablet hofitol 200 mg dry extract of fresh leaves of an artichoke field (active substance), and a number of auxiliary substances that help the absorption of active principle - magnesium trisilicate, corn starch, talc, magnesium stearate. The shell composition includes tablets neutral substances that protect the contents from aggressive acidic environment of the stomach.

In the duodenum coated tablet dissolves and the contents were absorbed into the blood. This biologically active substances contained in the extract of artichoke Artichoke extract - for the treatment and prevention of various diseases , Have a complex effect on the liver and kidneys.

Included in the product tsinarin in combination with phenolic has choleretic effect, improves bile secretion by hepatocytes (liver cells) and the outflow of bile biliary ways. This action helps to improve digestion, care symptoms such as flatulence, dyspepsia, intestinal colic, normal stools.

Polyphenols also protect the liver from any toxic effects: drugs, alcohol, industrial and household hazards, nitro compounds, alkaloids, salts of heavy metals and so on.

Another biologically active complex contains minerals and vitamins, are woven into the metabolic processes in the liver cells and activates them.

The positive effect on the kidney is the stimulation of filtration in the kidneys, which leads to the removal of excess liquid How to withdraw excess fluid from the body - all sorts of ways   (reduces swelling). Hofitol also helps reduce blood cholesterol.

Which diseases prescribed pills hofitol

Hofitol tablets prescribed for chronic diseases of the liver and biliary tract is acute. Positive influence treatment Hofitol Hofitol - has beneficial effects on liver function   on the condition of patients with biliary dyskinesia on the hypokinetic type. It promotes bile toward the gallbladder through increased biliary tract motility. Do not take the tablets at hofitol biliary dyskinesia of hyperkinetic type (with increased physical activity bile ducts).

The same positive effect pills hofitol have in chronic cholecystitis, contributing to the timely emptying of the gallbladder and bile excretion into the duodenum. Timely elimination of bile stasis prevents exacerbations of chronic cholecystitis. You can not assign hofitol only with calculous cholecystitis, gallbladder when there are stones.

Apply hofitol well as in chronic liver diseases without exacerbation - chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. Hofitol protects liver cells from damage and prevents the reduction of liver function. In acute hepatitis hofitol appoint the recovery period - the beneficial effects of this drug on liver cells contributes to the rapid recovery of liver function.

When kidney disease associated with decreased kidney function (eg, chronic glomerulonephritis without exacerbation) Chophytol mild diuretic effect promotes the excretion of excess fluid and toxic substances.

Contraindications and side effects

Tablets hofitol not apply if the impaired patency of biliary tract, including the presence of stones in the bile ducts and gall bladder. Contraindications their reception and in all acute diseases of the liver and kidneys as well as bile and urinary tract. Do not take hofitol children up to six years, and in case of hypersensitivity to the drug the patient. Precautions hofitol tablets taken during pregnancy and breast- Breastfeeding - a personal choice   feeding.

Side effects when taking Chophytol may occur only in the form of diarrhea (chronic administration in high doses), and allergic reactions.

Galina Romanenko