Afobazol is anxiolytic (medication that lifts anxiety) domestic production. Take afobazol day, as it has a slight stimulating properties without relaxes skeletal muscles, and has no negative effect on memory and concentration.

How does

Afobazol - a drug that relieves anxiety Anxiety - how to distinguish normal from disease?   and also has activating effect on the body, that is a daily tranquilizer. Unlike other drugs anxiolytics or tranquilizers afobazol operates more softly and slowly, without causing a pronounced effect on the central nervous system. In order to obtain a therapeutic effect afobazol need to take at least a week. The optimal duration of treatment is considered to be a period of two weeks to a month.

Which diseases helps afobazol

Afobazol appoint the neuroses that develop in people with anxious-hypochondriac character traits. After a course of treatment in these patients is held constant feeling of anxiety, anticipation of danger, irritable weakness. Patients better adapt to the team, a family. After the alarm goes Such patients normal sleep.

Afobazol often prescribed for hormonal disorders that are accompanied by functional disorders of the nervous system: PMS, menopause and so on. In this case, good afobazol the fact that not only regulates the mood and relieves anxiety, irritability Irritability - you try to control my temper But also regulates the autonomic nervous system, which is always disturbed by hormonal disorders. Removed symptoms such as sweating, flushing and upper body, "jumps" blood pressure, seizures, palpitations and pains in the heart and so on.

Therapists also often prescribed to patients with a variety of afobazol long flowing chronic diseases that are accompanied by functional disorders of the nervous system and autonomic disorders (the autonomic nervous system innervates internal organs and blood vessels). For example, bronchial asthma, anxiety and stress can trigger attacks of bronchospasm. After treatment afobazole bronchospasm attacks are becoming increasingly rare.

Not less effective afobazol and diseases of the digestive system, whose work is closely linked with the state of the central nervous system. For example, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcers are almost always escalates against various functional disorders of the nervous system. The same can be said about all the chronic diseases of the digestive system - gastritis, gastroduodenitis, pancreatitis, enterocolitis, cholecystitis, cholangitis. Afobazol contributes to the fact that the deterioration of these diseases rarely develops.

Special group are patients with diseases of the cardiovascular system. Increased anxiety in a study of people, such as coronary heart disease there are strong stabbing pain in my heart Pain in the heart - always consult a doctor . In some patients, this occurs when the fear of death, which can significantly to weight their condition. The same thing occurs frequently and hypertensive crises, sudden cardiac arrhythmias and other heart diseases. Afobazol can significantly improve the condition of these patients.

Almost all skin diseases, especially, is prolonged, also accompanied by disorders of the nervous system and light tranquilizers, including afobazol have a positive effect on the course of these diseases.

Especially important to the nervous system in cancer: drugs, pain relieving anxious expectation, reduce pain themselves.

Disorders of the nervous system always occur against the backdrop of a hangover syndrome in patients with chronic alcoholism. Develop a sense of anxiety, danger, which in severe withdrawal syndrome may progress to delirium tremens. Therefore it is better at an early stage of treatment to appoint a drug, relieving anxiety.

The withdrawal syndrome develops, and smoking cessation, the state of these patients also may improve with treatment afobazole.

Who should not take

Afobazol non-toxic drug, and almost no contraindications. It can not take children and adolescents under 18 years of age, during pregnancy and nursing Breastfeeding - a personal choice   feeding, as well as hypersensitive to the components of the drug.

Side effects afobazola only known allergic reactions.

Galina Romanenko

Psychiatrists all over the world are concerned about the increase in neuropsychiatric disorders. Due to these developed various measures to prevent these diseases. According to the WHO classification 1983 psychoprophylaxis divided into primary, secondary and tertiary. Under each of these developed its own measures to reduce the neuro-psychiatric disorders.

Primary psychoprophylaxis

This prevention of neuropsychiatric disorders, which includes the most extensive activities, such as the fight against epidemics, injuries, psychogenic effects on human health of the mentally ill. This also includes the education of children and adolescents, their timely and proper career guidance, reduced their neuropsychiatric loads, prevention of family conflicts, psychotherapeutic advice and assistance in situations of acute conflict in the family, at work, with neighbors and so on.

Of great importance is the prevention of hereditary diseases, to this end, are genetic counseling, a task which is to identify possible deviations in neuropsychological development of the fetus Fetal development - week after week   and prevent the birth of a sick child.

The antenatal obstetricians tell pregnant women about the harmful effects on the central nervous system (CNS) of the child alcohol, drugs, psychotropic drugs, smoking and so on. No less important for the birth of a child is mentally healthy and proper management of pregnancy and childbirth - is prevention of various toxic effects on the central nervous system of the child due to pregnancy, and birth trauma. Value for normal neuropsychological development is the early detection of a child's developmental anomalies and their treatment.

Prevention and treatment of any severe acute, chronic disease is both psychoprophylaxis. Of particular importance this has for the prevention of cancer patients.

Secondary psychoprophylaxis

Secondary psychoprophylaxis - is early detection and treatment of mental disorders and diseases. Important role played by the use of effective methods of treatment, drugs, long-term maintenance therapy, which excludes the possibility of recurrence.

Such patients should be constantly observed by a psychiatrist. Proper observation, timely anti-treatment is secondary psychoprophylaxis.

Psychiatrists should be familiar household, family conditions such patients to timely repay the conflict and to prevent the exacerbation of mental illness Mental illness - ashamed to ask for help? .

Tertiary psychoprophylaxis

Tertiary psychoprophylaxis aimed at preventing severe for the patient and the surrounding social consequences of diseases. So, with grave consequences for the patient are his disability, inability to work, to adapt to the social environment, severe course of mental illness.

For others the effects may also be significant. If you do not adapt to society the patient lives in a family, then it creates a heavy psychological atmosphere, which can lead to the development of psychogenic (neuroses and reactive psychosis) family members. Here tertiary psychoprophylaxis merges with the primary.

Finally, great importance is the prevention of illegal actions in psychiatric patients. According to statistics, most of all unlawful acts committed with schizophrenia Schizophrenia - to blame civilization That says enough about the quality of tertiary psychoprophylaxis conduct.

Within the framework of tertiary prevention of mental disorders play an important role proper and timely assignment of patient medical and psychotherapeutic treatment, and physiotherapy, medical gymnastics, hydrotherapy, and so on.

Psychoprophylaxis using the methods of psychotherapy

Various psychotherapeutic techniques can be used in all kinds of psychological prophylaxis. So, as part of the primary work of the psycho-prophylaxis with healthy people who found themselves in a traumatic situation, it can completely restore normal mental state.

The use of psychotherapy for the prevention of acute mental illness is secondary prevention - these methods are always applied in the treatment of patients with mental illness and are highly efficient.

Finally, under tertiary prevention of mental health therapy used in the complex treatment of exacerbations of mental illness, adaptation of patients in society and the suppression of their aggressiveness.

Prevention of mental illness is one of the main tasks of the psychiatrist.

Galina Romanenko