Medicinal preparation "Piracetam". Indications for use, side effects

The drug "Piracetam" is a white, highly soluble in water and alcohol powder. It is considered to be the main one in the entire group of nootropic drugs. Today, the synthesis of its analogues, for example, etiracetam, oxyracetam, is made, but despite this, piracetam continues to be the most sought after in its group.

The medicine "Piracetam" is well absorbed, evenly distributed in the tissues of the body (including the brain) when ingested, excreted by the kidneys.

The drug has a beneficial effect on the metabolism, cerebral circulation. With its help, oxidation-reduction processes are easier to proceed, processing and glucose withdrawal is accelerated, blood flow is being stimulated into the ischemic parts of the brain.

The mechanism of action is based, in particular, on the increase in the rate of exchange of ATP, the activity of adenylate cyclase, thereby increasing the energy of the organism, which in turn leads to tissue stability during hypoxia and toxic attack. Synthesis of RNA is increased under the action of the drug "Piracetam", indications for use indicate its low toxicity, when carrying out experiments on animals, the lethal outcome occurred at a dosage of 10 g. Per 1 kg of body weight on condition of intravenous administration.

Due to various diseases of the nervous system of adults and children, the drug "Piracetam" is prescribed, indications for use contain recommendations for taking the drug in pathologies of metabolic processes, vascular disorders. People with senile, elderly people tolerate the drug well.

In neurology, "Piracetam" is prescribed for the treatment of atherosclerosis, vascular parkinsonism - those diseases that are characterized by cerebral-vascular chronic insufficiency. Disorders of speech, memory, attention are manifestations of such diseases. "Piracetam" is prescribed for the subcomatous and comatose states of the body that have arisen from injuries, brain intoxications and during complex therapy after such conditions. With lesions of the nervous system, the "Piracetam" is also prescribed, the indications for use are: anomalies in the emotional-volitional sphere, the decrease of intellectual functions.

In gerontology, the drug "Piracetam" was also used, indications for use: senile dementia (Alzheimer's disease, among others) as a complex therapy.

The drug has some contraindications:

- kidney failure,

- an allergy to fruit juices, essences,

- the age of the child under 1 year,

- Children with a diagnosis of "diabetes" drug is not prescribed.

Side effects in piracetam are almost none, usually it is well tolerated by patients, sometimes there is a violation of sleep, increased irritability, anxiety, dyspeptic disorders. In elderly patients with coronary insufficiency, there is an aggravation of the process. If such events are detected, either the daily dose should be reduced or the drug taken out.

If the doctor has prescribed a course of treatment with piracetam in the form of granules, then the drug may have an allergic reaction from the body, manifested by gastrointestinal anomalies or skin rashes. This happens because of the large amount of sugar in the preparation.

Piracetam is produced in ampoules for injection, in tablets, in granules and in the form of baby syrup.

"Piracetam" is prescribed in a complex therapy, together with cardiovascular and psychotropic medications.

Assign the drug preorally, intravenously or intramuscularly. The daily dosage of "Piracetam" depends on the nature of the disease and on the degree of damage to the body. With some acute manifestations (coma, cerebral diseases, treatment of poisonings), the dose begins with 2 and is adjusted to 6 g every 24 hours.

Children are assigned "Piracetam" in the form of granules. In the treatment of chronic processes, the dosage starts at 1 or 2 g and is adjusted to a maximum of 4 g every 24 hours.