Medication "Heptral". Reviews, application

The medicine "Geptral" (the description to the medicine contains such information) is a hepatoprotector and has an antidepressant effect. The drug has cholekinetic and choleretic effects. Medication "Heptral" is also characterized by neuroprotective, antifibrozing, regenerating, antioxidant and detoxifying properties.

The drug contributes to the replacement of ademetionin deficiency, stimulates its secretion in the body, in the liver and brain in the first place. The drug increases the concentration of glutamine in the liver, taurine and cysteine in the plasma. The drug helps to lower the level of methionine in the serum due to the normalization of metabolic reactions.

Choleretic activity of the drug is due to increased mobility and polarization in the membranes of hepatocytes as a result of stimulation in them of the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine.

When prescribing a medicine, "Heptral" (experts' reviews confirm this), patients with opioid dependence complicated by hepatic lesions, regress symptoms of withdrawal symptoms. The drug contributes to the improvement of liver activity, stabilization of microsomal oxidation.

The antidepressant effect of the medication appears gradually: it starts after the end of the first week of therapy and stabilizes over the next two weeks. The medicine "Geptral" (expert reviews indicate this) can interrupt the recurrence of depression. The drug is effective in depression (neurotic and endogenous), resistant to the drug "Amitriptyline."

In osteoarthritis, the medication "Heptral" reduces the severity of the pain syndrome, enhances the synthesis of proteoglycans, and also provokes partial regeneration of cartilage tissue.

Indications include abstinence syndrome, intrahepatic cholestasis, depressive (including secondary) syndrome. The agent "Geptral" is prescribed for secondary encephalopathies, cirrhotic and precircotic conditions. Indications include hepatic lesions of a different nature: viral, toxic (alcoholic including), medicinal (when taking antitumor, antibiotic, antiviral, anti-tuberculosis medications, as well as oral contraceptives, tricyclic antidepressants).

Means "Heptral" (doctors' reviews are unambiguous in this) is not prescribed for hypersensitivity, pregnancy in 1-2 trimester, during lactation. Contraindicated in children under the age of eighteen.

For intensive care, the drug "Heptral" is used in ampoules. The introduction is done intravenously (drip) or into the muscle. The daily dose is four hundred to eight hundred milligrams. The duration of intensive treatment is two or three weeks.

For maintenance therapy, tablets are prescribed "Heptral". The daily dose is eight hundred to one thousand six hundred milligrams (two or four tablets). The duration of maintenance therapy is on average two to four weeks.

The drug has a tonic effect. In this regard, it is not recommended to drink medicine at night.

Medication "Heptral" (patients' reviews confirm this) are well tolerated. In some cases there was discomfort in the epigastric region. In some patients, the allergy started when the medicine was applied.

During the application of the drug "Heptral" in liver cirrhosis with hyperazotemia, regular monitoring of the nitrogen content in the blood is necessary. With prolonged therapy it is necessary to systematically determine the concentration of creatinine and urea in the serum.

The drug is allowed to use for three years from the date of manufacture.

Before taking the medicine "Heptral" you should visit a doctor and consult with him.