"Acesol": instructions for use and indications

In severe intoxication or dehydration, the patient is included in the complex therapy "Acesol". Instructions for use recommend the use of the drug if the patient's condition is almost critical. What is this medicine? What is its use? And how to apply it?

a brief description of

Medicinal preparation "Acesol" the instruction on application positions as saline, detoxification and plazmozameschayuschy solution. It belongs to a group of combined agents that affect only the metabolic processes that occur in the tissues.

The medicine is used to restore the water-electrolyte balance in the body. The preparation "Acesol" is produced in the form of a transparent solution, intended for infusions.

The medication is based on a combination of components:

• Sodium chloride,
• Potassium chloride ,
• Sodium acetate trihydrate .

The medicine is allowed to be frozen.

It is not known whether the drug "Acesol" affects the ability to drive a vehicle or carry out potentially dangerous work. To this day, no such studies have been carried out.

Effect of the drug

So, what is the benefit of this tool? To answer this question, you should consider the pharmacological effects of the drug "Acesol".

Instructions for use indicate that this product has the following properties:

• Anti-shock,
• Plasma-substituting,
• Rehydrating,
• Detoxicating (removes harmful, toxic substances from the body),
• Antiaggregate,
• Diuretic.

In addition, the drug "Acesol" provides a number of other beneficial effects:

• Prevents the occurrence of metabolic acidosis ;
• Reduces hypovolemia;
• Prevents excessive blood clots;
• Improves capillary blood circulation, microcirculation;
• Increases diuresis.

It is known that the positive effect of the drug extends to such important organs as the heart, kidneys.

So, under what conditions is it expedient to resort to the help of the medicine "Acesol"?

Indications for use

The medicine is prescribed by a doctor under the following conditions:

1. Dehydration of the body, provoked by severe food poisoning. Pathology is accompanied by multiple diarrhea, vomiting.
2. Massive blood loss. With this pathology, it becomes necessary to quickly restore the normal level of electrolytes. The drug is administered in combination with blood substitutes.
3. Cholera or dysentery. Infectious ailments, accompanied by abundant vomiting, diarrhea. As a result of such symptoms, the patient very quickly becomes dehydrated.
4. Food poisoning (poisoning).
5. Acetonemic syndrome. With this pathology, the patient significantly reduces the volume of fluid circulating in the body.
6. Burns (2,3 degrees). The drug is recommended for use in complex therapy.

With all the pathologies listed above, the drug "Acesol" demonstrates high efficiency. Indications for use include another condition in which the drug provides a beneficial effect. The medication is used in the therapy of toxic pathologies provoked by alcohol intoxication.

Recommended dosage

Only in case of severe or moderate conditions of the patient is prescribed the medicine "Acesol". The use of this solution is justified when the patient can not take oral medication for rehydration.

Means for intravenous injection is intended.

The instruction recommends the use of "Acesol" - solution for infusion as follows:

1. Before applying the medication, it must be heated. The optimum temperature is 36-38 C.
2. It is important to keep this heat. Especially if the medication is administered for a long time. To do this, it is recommended to place a heating pad on the bottle, which will provide the necessary temperature level.
3. Initially, the drug is injected for 1-3 hours.
4. For each specific case, the amount of solution needed to restore the body is selected individually.

Patients who are diagnosed with severe conditions are administered an Acesol solution within an hour, approximately corresponding to 7-10% of the patient's weight.

Then this medicine enters the patient's body by a drip. The system is connected for 24-48 hours. The speed of such an event is 40-120 drops within a minute. The drip procedure is necessarily accompanied by a laboratory control of the patient's indices.

Every 6 hours, determine what is the difference between the lost and injected liquid. This allows you to protect the patient from unpleasant complications. The volume of the solution that has entered the body should correspond to the total amount of the withdrawn liquid (excreta, urine, vomiting, sweat).

Contraindications of medicament

Doctors, when assigning this medication to a patient, take into account not only the medicament "Acesol" indications, but also the limitations to its use.

The instruction indicates the following contraindications:

• alkalosis;
• Hyperkalemia;
• Hypersensitivity;
• Chronic renal failure;
• Edema of the brain;
• Ban on the introduction of a large amount of fluid in the body;
• heart failure;
• Edema of incomprehensible etiology.

Special attention is needed by patients who are diagnosed with impaired renal excretory function.

Side effects

The drug is capable of provoking some negative manifestations. They are also important to consider if the medicine "Acesol" is prescribed.

Instructions for use indicate that the following adverse reactions may occur:

• Swelling;
• chills;
• Increased pressure;
• Increase in the concentration of potassium in the blood;
• An attack of a tachycardia.

If such manifestations are noted, the doctor cancels the injection of this medication. Restoration of electrolyte balance in the patient is carried out by other drugs.

An overdose means

In this case, the patient develops hyperkalemia.

As a rule, an overdose can occur in the following cases:

• If the patient is diagnosed with renal pathology in chronic form;
• The presence of diseases that can worsen the withdrawal from the human body of potassium;
• Too fast solution input.

You should know that hyperkalemia can even lead to death. In this case, such a pathology can develop very rapidly.

The high concentration of potassium in the blood is signaled by severe symptoms:

• heart failure;
• Muscle paralysis.

However, hyperkalemia is a rather insidious pathology. In some cases, it can be completely asymptomatic.

In case of an overdose, immediately abolish "Acesol" (solution). Most often, the medicine is replaced with an effective medication called "Disol". Depending on the patient's condition, the doctor assesses the need for hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.

The main analogues

How can I replace this product? The structural analogue of the drug "Acesol" is a solution of "Chlosol".

If there is a sensitivity to this drug, the doctor can replace it with the following medicines:

• "Mafusol".
• Lactasol.
• Hartman solution.
• Quintasol.
• "Plasma-lit 148".
• Addamel N.
• "Yonosteril."
• "Disol".
• Reamberin.
• Ringer lactate.
• "Sterofundin G-5."
• "Trometamol N".
• Ringer's acetate.
• "Normofundin G-5".

Application during pregnancy

Future mothers should always listen to the recommendations of doctors. This applies to any medication.

Can I apply the drug "Acesol" during pregnancy? Only the attending doctor is able to answer this question. The expediency of using this remedy is carefully weighed by a doctor. The solution can be prescribed only if the expected beneficial effect of the therapy of the mother significantly exceeds the risk for the future baby.

However, one should know that studies that fully confirm the safety of the drug for future mothers have not been carried out.

This applies to the lactation period.