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Syrup Pantogam from cough for children
Last reviewed: 10.08.2022
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Cough syrup for children is used more often, because now more and more children suffer from various respiratory diseases. Cough torments the child with cold, infectious, allergic diseases. In this syrup - the fastest and safest.
Indications The Pantogam syrup
Indications for the use of the drug is cough, as well as all diseases associated with increased nervous excitability, reflex reactions of the wrong type. This drug is quite effective when coughing, which occurs against the background of neuropsychic diseases, excessive excitability of the respiratory center and respiratory muscles (smooth muscle layer). Also, the drug is used for coughing, which occurs against the background of a cough associated with heart disease, blood vessels.
Indications for prescribing drugs are often atherosclerosis, pathological changes in blood vessels and brain, the initial forms of senile and child dementia and dementia, various organic brain lesions. This drug is quite effective even with respiratory failure, as well as against a background of various hereditary diseases. It can be both respiratory diseases and brain diseases. It is indicated for schizophrenia, hysteria, hyperkinesia and paralysis. Equally often used in the treatment of cough, respiratory tract, nervous and endocrine systems.
It is used for various infectious processes, including infections of the respiratory tract (bacterial, viral, parasitic infection). Also used for neuroinfections, and for infections that have penetrated through the ascending pathways and nasolacrimal canals to the brain. Also, the drug is used for hepatocerebral dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, after the transferred neuroinfections, intoxications and injuries. Part is used as part of complex therapy, it is rarely used as monotherapy.
Sometimes it is used to prevent an attack with bronchial asthma, asthmatic bronchitis, and also with epilepsy. Promotes increased concentration and memorization. Also, the drug is characterized by the ability to normalize metabolic processes with frequent urination and urinary incontinence. Children are also recommended to take this medication with perinatal encephalopathy, as the condition of the throat and vocal cords normalizes against the background of its administration. With a delay in mental development, speech disorders and attacks of various origins, it is recommended to take the drug as part of complex therapy. He prevents mental retardation, normalizes speech, motor, psychomotor development.
Pharmacodynamics
Provides basic medicinal properties due to the salts of gopantenic acid. As for the basic pharmacological properties, it is worth noting that pantogam - nootropic substance. Its main effect is the neuro-metabolic effect on the body. Due to neurotrophic and neuroprotective properties, the respiratory center is depressed, resulting in a significantly reduced cough reflex.
Also, as a result of neuroprotective effects on the body, it can be noted that the resistance of the brain to oxygen starvation is significantly increased. The drug contributes to the effects of toxic substances. Anabolic processes are also more intensive in comparison with catabolic processes.
The main processes are localized precisely in neurons (cells of the nervous system). This contributes to the fact that there is a sharp decrease in the activity of the respiratory center. Accordingly, there is also a decrease in the contractile activity of smooth muscles. The peculiarity of this drug is that it has a sedative effect. At the same time, it effectively combines with a mild stimulating effect, resulting in a cough gradually decreasing. The inflammatory process is coming down, the amount of infection is sharply reduced.
Also one of the effects is anticonvulsant effect, normalization of behavior and motor excitability of the nervous system. Mental and physical performance against the background of taking the drug is significantly increased, so this drug can be taken not only for cough, but also during remission, when the manifestations of coughing do not bother the child. Also, against the background of taking this medication, the mucous membranes can normalize, the production of immunoglobulin increases by mucous membranes. This contributes to an increase in efficiency, normalizes metabolic processes in the body, increases the body's resistance to infectious diseases, increases endurance.
This drug is also useful in cases of frequent colds and allergic diseases. The advantage of the drug is that the drug has an anesthetic, anesthetic effect not only on the throat, but also on the entire respiratory system.
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacokinetic properties are manifested in the fact that the drug is quickly absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract. The half-life is that the drug passes the half-life in 1 hour. In this case, the highest concentrations occur in the liver, kidneys, as well as in the walls of the stomach and intestines.
The drug has the ability to penetrate the hepatoencephalic barrier. Also, the concentration of the drug rises sharply in the kidneys, since the bulk of the drug is excreted unchanged in the urine (through the kidneys). Ability to metabolize does not occur. Approximately 48 hours later the drug is taken out almost completely. At the same time 68% of the drug is excreted in the urine, and 22% of the drug is excreted with feces.
Dosing and administration
The drug is taken orally. For children, a dosage of 1-3 grams per day is recommended. Treatment can last up to 3-4 months. Sometimes treatment can be extended up to 6 months, but it can be less demanded and less effective, since the main therapeutic effect can be achieved after 1-2 months of treatment. Further maintenance therapy continues. The repeated course of treatment can be carried out only after 3-5 months.
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Side effects The Pantogam syrup
As side effects, there are various allergic reactions, rhinitis, tonsillitis, conjunctivitis. Also, the drug can be used in the treatment of skin diseases, with the normalization of the mucous membranes.
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Interactions with other drugs
It can not be combined with various nootropic and stimulating drugs, enhances the effect of anticonvulsant and psychotropic properties. The action of local anesthetics is also significantly enhanced against the background of treatment. When combining pantogam with phenobarbital and psychotropic drugs, you can reduce the risk of side effects from these drugs. The effect of drugs is mutually reinforced if taken in conjunction with glycine, xyliphate.
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Description provided for informational purposes and is not a guide to self-healing. The need for this drug, the purpose of the treatment regimen, methods and dose of the drug is determined solely by the attending physician. Self-medication is dangerous for your health.