Mexidol - a drug that actively protects nerve cells from a variety of influences. It is available as ampoules and tablets and is used in various states in which disrupted the central nervous system.

Features mexidol ampoules

Mexidol able to improve the movement of blood through small blood vessels (capillaries) by improving the flow of blood and prevent its adhesion cellular elements. It stimulates the metabolism of the nerve cells as well as improve their oxygen supply and carbohydrate metabolism as a result of which the cell gains energy necessary for effecting biochemical reactions. Improvement of lipid metabolism result in reduced manifestations of atherosclerosis.

All of these effects are allowed to use medical mexidol as in severe conditions involving disorders of the brain, and for non-severe, slowly occurring diseases. In some cases, mexidol used prophylactically for the prevention of brain damage.

These different diseases and require different forms of the drug. For example, 5% solution in ampoules of mexidol 2 and 5 ml is used for acute and severe diseases. While improving the condition of the patient go to the reception of the drug inside.

Which diseases apply mexidol ampoules

Mexidol ampoules used for intramuscular or intravenous administration in severe, long flowing or acute diseases. With the drug into the vein, it is dissolved in saline and administered bolus or infusion. Dose physician selected individually depending on the patient's condition and diagnosis of the disease.

Often mexidol include in the complex therapy of acute ischemic stroke. In the early days (usually no more than a week) after the onset of the disease, it is administered intravenously twice a day, and then transferred to a local administration at the same dose twice daily. The total course of treatment meksidolom is about two weeks.

When encephalopathies (noninfectious brain lesions), which are typically long, difficult to treat for mexidol administered for a longer period intravenously twice daily for two weeks and then once intramuscularly twice a day and two weeks. Apply mexidol in encephalopathy and prophylactically, to reduce the risk of exacerbations of the disease. In this case it is administered intramuscularly, 1 - 2 times a day for two weeks.

For small memory disorders and neurotic disorders in elderly people associated with atherosclerotic vascular lesions of the brain mexidol administered intramuscularly once a day in a different dosage (it is prescribed by a doctor) for two - four weeks.

The agent has a positive effect on metabolism Improves metabolism and losing weight without dieting   and removes intoxication when withdrawal syndrome that emerged against the background of alcoholism, substance abuse Substance abuse - as a child back to life? . The condition of patients at the same time can be very heavy, so the dose, route of administration and duration of treatment chosen for each patient individually, but in any case, the drug is administered at least during the week.

Mexidol well reduces the toxicity that has developed against the backdrop of severe chronic inflammatory diseases of the abdominal organs, such as acute pancreatitis, accompanied by necrosis (dying away) pancreatic tissue Diabetes and pancreas - the things you need to know Peritonitis. Mexidol administered intravenously from the first days of the disease, and continue to be administered after the operation, moving with the times (after the improvement of the patient) for the intramuscular administration. Since the drug is administered for a long time, to abolish it gradually, consistent with the state of the patient and laboratory data.

Contraindications for parenteral (bypassing the gastrointestinal tract) administration mexidol are serious violations of the liver and kidneys and idiosyncrasy of the drug. Not appointed mexidol well as during pregnancy, breast- Breastfeeding - a personal choice   breast and childhood - clinical studies of the drug in these groups of patients have not been conducted.

Meksidol virtually no side effects, but in rare cases can cause nausea, dry mouth, and allergic reactions. It does not occur, and overdoses of the drug. Meksidol good compatibility with other drugs, it reduces the toxic effects of alcohol on the body. Mexidol can also enhance the effect of certain tranquilizers (medicines calming effect), as well as drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease and epilepsy.

Mexidol ampoules is usually used as a fairly intensive treatment of various disorders.

Galina Romanenko

Mydocalm used in a variety of diseases, which are accompanied by spasms and rigidity (tension, stiffness) of skeletal muscles. But it is also used in obliterating (a blockage or narrowing of) diseases of the blood vessels.

Application Mydocalm at different of severe neurological diseases

The operation is mirokalma relaxation and stress relief of skeletal muscle. This makes it possible to use it in a variety of neurological diseases that are accompanied by neuromuscular disorders such as multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis - whether in remission? .

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic progressive disease of the central nervous system, which is accompanied by multifocal lesions of the white matter of the brain and spinal cord. The disease is has numerous symptoms, including not least the increased spasticity of the skeletal muscles - increasing muscle tone of spastic type, mainly in the legs, which limits the mobility of patients.

To remove such spasticity is difficult, because many drugs that lower the tone, increased weakness of paralyzed limbs and can lead to a deterioration of the disease. Therefore, the drug is selected individually for each patient, and the dosage is gradually increased until the first signs of withdrawal spasms. Today, more often prescribed for this purpose Mydocalmum. It is administered in tablets as intramuscularly, if required to obtain a stronger effect.

The same tone of skeletal muscle disorders may be at myelopathy, encephalomyelitis, the consequences of acute ischemic attacks.

Increased skeletal muscle tone may be observed in cerebral palsy, particularly Little's disease, which is characterized by central paralysis of limbs with a predominance of lesions of the lower extremities. Symptoms of the disease appear in the first days of life: bathing and swaddling of these children revealed an increased muscle tone, manifested by stiffness. Mydocalm in such cases is shown with three age intramuscular and intravenous injections.

Application Mydocalm in diseases of the spine and joints, accompanied by pain

All infectious and inflammatory and autoimmune (caused by an allergy to their own tissue) diseases of the spine and joints are accompanied usually by severe pain. Such diseases include arthritis (joint inflammation) of any origin, rheumatoid arthritis (they have an autoimmune origin) spondylitis (inflammatory disease of the spine.

For all these diseases there is muscle strain near the lesion, which is a reflex and protects the site of inflammation from additional injury. But it enhances skeletal muscle spasm pain at the site of inflammation and delays the recovery period.

The same situation and degenerative (metabolic) diseases of the spine and joints, which include arthritis, osteochondrosis with complications such as intervertebral hernia Intervertebral hernia - when the body fails   and infringement of the spinal nerves. At the same time there are also a lot of pain and there is a protective muscle spasm.

And in fact, and in another case as part of a treatment to prescribe medication that relieves spasms of skeletal muscles (muscle relaxants). These drugs not only relieve muscle spasm, but also have their own analgesic effects that, superimposed on the analgesic effect of a part of an integrated treatment of analgesics, greatly enhances the analgesic effect.

Application Mydocalm in obliterating diseases of the blood vessels

Obliterating diseases of the blood vessels characterized by a significant decrease in their lumen. The most common cause of such disease is atherosclerosis Atherosclerosis - a chronic disease of the arteries In which the peripheral blood vessels become clogged with atherosclerotic plaque (occlusive disease), which disrupts tissue nutrition and may even lead to their necrosis.

In these diseases is assigned Mydocalmum Mydocalm: drug from muscle spasms Who has inflammatory properties, i.e. it removes spasm of smooth muscles of blood vessel walls. Simultaneous removal of spasm of skeletal muscle increases the effect, blood rushes to the affected area, and partially or fully recovered nutrition of tissues.

Mydocalm found today the most widely used in the treatment of various diseases associated with spasms of skeletal and smooth muscle.

Galina Romanenko