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Pantogam syrup for coughs for children
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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Cough syrup for children is used more and more often, since nowadays more and more children suffer from various respiratory diseases. Cough torments a child with colds, infections, allergic diseases. At the same time, syrup is the fastest-acting and safest remedy.
Indications Pantogam syrup
Indications for the use of the drug are cough, as well as all diseases associated with increased nervous excitability, reflex reactions of the wrong type. This drug is quite effective for coughs that occur against the background of neuropsychiatric diseases, excessive excitability of the respiratory center and respiratory muscles (smooth muscle layer). The drug is also used for coughs that occur against the background of coughs associated with diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
Indications for the prescription of drugs are also often atherosclerosis, pathological changes in blood vessels and the brain, initial forms of senile and childhood dementia and feeblemindedness, various organic lesions of the brain. This drug is also quite effective in respiratory failure, as well as against the background of various hereditary diseases. These can be both respiratory diseases and diseases of the brain. It is indicated for schizophrenia, hysteria, hyperkinesis and paralysis. It is equally often used in the treatment of cough, respiratory tract, nervous and endocrine systems.
It is used for various infectious processes, including respiratory tract infections (bacterial, viral, parasitic infections). It is also used for neuroinfections and for infections that have penetrated the brain through the ascending tract and nasolacrimal canals. The drug is also used for hepatocerebral dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, after neuroinfections, intoxications and injuries. It is often used as part of complex therapy; it is extremely rarely used as monotherapy.
Sometimes used to prevent attacks of bronchial asthma, asthmatic bronchitis, and epilepsy. Helps improve concentration and memorization. The drug is also characterized by the ability to normalize metabolic processes with frequent urination and urinary incontinence. Children are also recommended to take this drug for perinatal encephalopathy, since its use normalizes the condition of the throat and vocal cords. In case of mental retardation, speech disorders, and attacks of various origins, it is recommended to take the drug as part of complex therapy. It prevents mental retardation, normalizes speech, motor, and psychomotor development.
Pharmacodynamics
Provides the main medicinal properties due to the salts of hopantenic acid. As for the main pharmacological properties, it is worth noting that pantogam is a nootropic substance. Its main action is the neurometabolic effect on the body. Due to neurotrophic and neuroprotective properties, the respiratory center is suppressed, as a result of which the cough reflex is significantly reduced.
Also, as a result of the neuroprotective effect on the body, it can be noted that the brain's resistance to oxygen starvation increases significantly. The drug promotes the effects of toxic substances. Anabolic processes also proceed more intensively compared to catabolic processes.
The main processes are localized in neurons (cells of the nervous system). This contributes to 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 is effectively combined with a mild stimulating effect, as a result of which the cough gradually decreases. The inflammatory process subsides, the amount of infection decreases sharply.
Another effect is anticonvulsant action, 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 to treat cough, but also during remission, when the manifestations of cough do not bother the child. Also against the background of taking this drug, the condition of the mucous membranes can be normalized, the production of immunoglobulin by the mucous membranes increases. This helps to increase performance, normalizes metabolic processes in the body, increases the body's resistance to infectious diseases, and increases endurance.
This drug is also useful for frequent colds and allergies. The advantage of the drug is that this drug has a pain-relieving, 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 absorbed quite quickly through the gastrointestinal tract. The half-life period is that the drug passes the half-life period in 1 hour. At the same time, 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 increases sharply in the kidneys, since the main part of the drug is excreted unchanged in the urine (through the kidneys). There is no ability to metabolize. In about 48 hours, the drug is excreted almost completely. At the same time, 68% of the drug is excreted in the urine, and 22% of the drug is excreted in the feces.
Dosing and administration
The drug is taken orally. For children, the recommended dosage is 1-3 grams per day. Treatment can last up to 3-4 months. Sometimes treatment can be extended to 6 months, but it may be less in demand and less effective, since the main therapeutic effect can be achieved after 1-2 months of treatment. Then maintenance therapy continues. A repeated course of treatment can be carried out only after 3-5 months.
Contraindications
Various kidney and liver diseases are considered as contraindications. Do not exceed the dosage under any circumstances. It is not recommended to take the drug for a long time.
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Side effects Pantogam syrup
Side effects include various allergic reactions, rhinitis, tonsillitis, conjunctivitis. The drug can also be used to treat skin diseases and normalize the condition of mucous membranes.
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Interactions with other drugs
It cannot be combined with various nootropic and stimulant drugs, enhances the effect of anticonvulsant and psychotropic properties. The effect of local anesthetics is also significantly enhanced by treatment. When combining pantogam with phenobarbital and psychotropic drugs, you can reduce the risk of developing side effects from these drugs. The effect of the drugs is mutually enhanced if taken in combination with glycine, xydiphone.
Attention!
To simplify the perception of information, this instruction for use of the drug "Pantogam syrup for coughs for children" translated and presented in a special form on the basis of the official instructions for medical use of the drug. Before use read the annotation that came directly to medicines.
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.