More and more often, recently, people have to resort to taking various medications. So, some drugs save you from viruses and bacteria, others are an excellent painkiller. This article will tell you about what Spazmalgon helps with. It is also worth saying a few words about the reviews that the drug has and the method of its use. You will find out in what forms the medicine “Spazmalgon” is produced.
Who is the drug prescribed for?
The drug in tablet form is prescribed to patients who have no contraindications to taking this medication. The only exception is children under 15 years of age. In some cases, the medicine can be prescribed to children over 6 years old, but the recommendation must be given by a specialist.
The drug "Spazmalgon" (injections) can be used from the age of three months. In this case, it is necessary to select an individual dosage, taking into account the course of the disease and the weight of the baby. The medicine "Spazmalgon" in ampoules can also be prescribed to adults who have no contraindications to the use of the drug.
What does Spazmalgon help with?
This drug is a highly effective new generation drug. It perfectly reduces temperature, relieves various pain sensations and has an anti-inflammatory effect. The special combination of components included in the composition has an enhanced effect on the body.
Metamizole sodium is a drug that relieves inflammation and inhibits the synthesis of prostaglandins. Pitophenone hydrochloride affects the smooth muscles of the whole body, relieving spasms and relaxing them. Fenpiverinium bromide has an additional analgesic effect, helping the previous component work. The drug is prescribed to eliminate various pathologies. Let's take a closer look at what Spazmalgon helps with.
Additional Help
If discomfort occurs in the kidney area, you should see a doctor, and if colic occurs, call an ambulance. How to treat pain in this case? Warmth and active “rinsing” of the urinary tract help relieve pain in kidney diseases.
Place a warm heating pad on the kidney area (from the side of the affected organ), hold for 15-30 minutes. The heat will relax spasms and reduce the intensity of pain. Take a hot bath for half an hour. This method of pain relief is contraindicated for patients with cardiovascular pathologies, gynecological and intestinal diseases. Drink more fluids (2 liters per day), take diuretics and drinks - pathogens, sand, salts will be washed out of the kidneys with urine, reducing the severity of inflammation and pain.
The principle of action of diuretics
For colic caused by the movement of sand or pebbles, the following procedure is recommended:
Give an injection or take 2 tablets of a combined antispasmodic. Prepare a thermos of hot tea with lemon. Place all the necessary things next to you: tablets, phone, book, since you will not be able to get up for several hours. Lie on the bed so that your kidneys are above your bladder; if necessary, place a pillow under your back and shoulders. Take 2 heating pads or warm water bottles. Clamp one of them between your legs, place the second under the lower back on the area of the sore kidney. Lie as long as you can, drink tea periodically. At night, take a Panangin or Asparkam tablet and a Magne B 6 tablet. The next day, repeat the procedure if the colic has not stopped.
You should not take diuretic tablets or place a heating pad on your kidneys if the outflow of urine is impaired. First, restore urinary flow, for example, by drinking an antispasmodic.
If you feel that it is not getting any easier, call a doctor and go to the hospital.
For smooth muscle spasms and pain syndrome
The drug perfectly helps with periodic pain in women associated with the characteristics of the menstrual cycle. The product also perfectly eliminates colic of various origins (renal, hepatic, intestinal, and so on).
“Spazmalgon” helps very well against toothache. Also, while taking the drug, the shooting sensations in the head disappear. It is worth noting that such pain can have a different nature (narrowing or dilation of blood vessels, spasm of nerve endings, and so on). The drug can even cope with migraines. However, in this case it must be taken as early as possible.
Signs of kidney pain
Everyone knows that the kidneys are located in the lumbar region, and often regard any discomfort in the lower back and above the pelvis as pain in the kidneys.
In fact, the pain is localized a little higher - closer to the ribs, since the kidneys are located in the upper half of the lower back.
As for the nature of the pain, in most diseases they can be constant or periodic, more often mild, nagging, aching, accompanied by fever, weakness and other signs of inflammation.
Renal colic is characterized by acute, sharp pain that does not go away in any position, vomiting, and the general serious condition of the patient.
It is not easy for a person who is experiencing kidney pain for the first time to independently identify them, because there are other organs nearby that can also give discomfort in the same area: the liver, spleen, appendix, spine.
Taking painkillers without a doctor's prescription can distort the clinical picture and complicate the diagnosis of the disease. Before using medications, visit a specialist to clarify the diagnosis!
As an antipyretic and anti-inflammatory agent
What else does Spazmalgon help with? As you already know, the drug has the ability to relieve fever and inflammation in various human organs and systems. Thus, the drug is prescribed to relieve influenza and treat colds. The drug perfectly relieves fever and improves the patient's condition.
Most often, capsules are used for oral administration, with the exception of illness in young children.
How to use the product?
You already know that the drug has two release forms. At the same time, the drug "Spazmalgon" is prescribed to children more often for intramuscular or intravenous administration. In each individual case, a separate dosage and duration of treatment are selected.
Capsules
The tablets are taken after eating food with sufficient water. You can take no more than six capsules per day. In this case, a single dose should not exceed two pills. You can use the medicine only after 15 years.
In some cases, doctors may prescribe this medicine to young children. In this case, the dosage should be as follows. From 6 to 8 years - half a capsule per dose. After 9 years - three quarters of a tablet to take. You can use a repeated dose no more than three times a day.
Injections
This dosage form can be used from three months of a child’s life. The dosages will be as follows. In the first year of life - 0.1 milliliters of the drug. Up to four years - double dose (0.2 ml). After five years -0.4 milliliters once. Children aged 8 years and older are administered 0.5-0.8 milliliters.
Treatment with this remedy should not last more than five days. If the doctor has established his own course of treatment, then it is necessary to monitor the condition of the circulatory system and liver.
Contraindications for use
Despite its relative safety and sale without a prescription, the drug has a number of contraindications for use :
- First of all, this is individual sensitivity to the components of the drug. An increase in which can manifest itself in the form of a wide range of allergic reactions, from banal itching to life-threatening conditions - Quincke's edema, etc.
- Diseases of the blood system are associated with changes in the quantitative and qualitative composition of the blood (decrease in the number of red blood cells, leukocytes, platelets in the circulating blood.)
- Reduced tone of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as the urinary and gall bladder.
- Congenital abnormalities of the liver and kidneys, as well as any other diseases leading to dysfunction of these organs.
- Any hypertrophic changes in the prostate gland that can cause urinary retention.
- State of pregnancy and lactation period.
Can there be negative reactions to the medicine?
Like any other drug, Spazmalgon has side effects. Among them are the following:
- allergies (manifested by urticaria, itching of mucous membranes or anaphylactic shock);
- heart reaction (increased heart rate, abnormal blood pressure, dizziness or fainting);
- reaction of the circulatory system (observed only with prolonged uncontrolled use of the drug);
- reaction of the respiratory system (shortness of breath, bronchospasm).
Can the medicine be used with other drugs?
The product may not be combined with some medications. For example, when used with hormonal contraceptives or certain depressants, the drug has a particularly harmful effect on the condition of the liver and blood.
If you use the drug together with sedatives, you can get a pronounced analgesic effect. In any case, it is better to divide the time of taking different medications so that there is a gap of at least 2-3 hours between them.
When using the medicine, you should refrain from taking antipyretic drugs. Because otherwise, an overdose of the active substance may occur and a negative reaction may occur.
What to drink if you have pyelonephritis
The treatment strategy for pyelonephritis is developing in the following directions:
- Fighting pathogens.
- Elimination of clinical symptoms.
- Helping the kidneys.
Fighting pathogens
Many microbes are able to use urine substances for nutrition, but most often E. coli becomes the culprit for damage to the excretory system. When choosing an antibiotic, it is necessary that it be quickly absorbed from the intestine, causing minimal damage to its microflora, and excreted by the kidneys, sanitizing inflamed excretory canals and reservoirs.
What antibiotics can you take for kidney pyelonephritis? This is determined by the urologist. Treatment of the disease should begin from the moment it is detected. Since the causative agent is initially unknown, it is necessary to prescribe a universal antibiotic, for example, a representative of the Fluoroquinolone category - Ciprofloxacin.
Diagnosticians conduct a bacteriological analysis of urine, identify the pathogen, and test it for sensitivity to antibiotics. Having the research results in hand, the doctor adjusts the treatment, prescribing the most appropriate antimicrobial agent for the particular case.
Elimination of clinical symptoms
What tablets to take for kidney pyelonephritis to relieve pain?
Symptomatic remedies include the following:
- Antispasmodics - Drotaverine, No-Shpa.
- Anti-inflammatory and painkillers - Paracetamol, Nurofen, Pentalgin, Baralgin.
- Herbal remedies - Canephron, Brusniver, bearberry leaves.
"Spazmalgon": analogues
Currently, manufacturers produce a wide variety of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. So, among them we can highlight “Nurofen”, “Solpadein”, “Spazgan” and many others.
Some patients try to replace their prescribed medication with a more affordable one. So, the question often arises about what to choose - “Spazmalgon” or “Spazgan”. Doctors strongly do not recommend self-medication and not looking for an alternative to the medicine on your own. Use only the drug prescribed by your doctor.
Price category
The medicine has different release forms and number of doses. So, the manufacturer produces tablets of 20 and 50 pieces per package. A small pack will cost you about 100 rubles. If you need to purchase a large package, then be prepared to pay from 200 to 250 rubles for it.
Injections are available in 2 and 5 milliliters per dose. In this case, you can find 10 ampoules in a pack. A smaller dosage costs from 200 to 250 rubles. Larger volume injections will cost you approximately 350 rubles.
Reviews about the medicine
The drug has mostly positive reviews. However, some patients note that the product has a rather toxic effect on the body. That is why it should not be used on its own for more than five days. Also, negative effects may be observed if the dose of the drug is increased.
People who have used the product say that the most common symptoms of overdose are pain in the stomach and intestines. This applies to the capsule form of release. If a person abuses injections, then fainting, vomiting and diarrhea may occur. Doctors say that treatment should be started immediately.
Antispasmodics
Acute pain in the kidneys is often caused by stones migrating or stuck in the ureter and problems with urinary drainage. To relieve this condition, it is necessary to ensure the expansion of the lumen of the urinary ducts to facilitate the passage of the stone into the bladder.
Antispasmodics cope well with this task: they relax the smooth muscles of the ureters and eliminate spasm, restoring the patency of the ducts:
No-shpa; Papaverine; Platyfillin.
These are myotropic antispasmodics based on drotaverine, used for spasms of the urinary tract. They help relieve pain in the kidneys, but in conditions of renal colic they are less effective.
For acute pain, it is recommended to use combination drugs consisting of a combination of an antispasmodic with analgesics and anti-inflammatory elements:
Spasmalgon; Spazgan; Spasmonet; Baralgin; Took; Revalgin; Baralgetas; other analogues.
These medications are administered intramuscularly or orally, 1-2 tablets per dose.
