The drug "Reduxin: instruction

The drug "Reduxin" - the first domestic drug, designed to combat alimentary obesity. The active ingredient in its composition, sibutramine, refers to psychoactive substances.

Forms of release - capsules of 10 mg or 15 mg in an amount from 7 to 15 pieces in a blister or from 7 to 30 or 60 pieces in polymer jars. Such a variety of packages is due to the high cost of reduction. Today, this drug causes a lot of controversy, as the list of contraindications to its use consists of 11 items.

About how the drug "Reduxin" works

The action of the reduction is combined due to the constituent components: sibutramine and microcrystalline cellulose.

Regarding sibutramine, the first component of the Reduxin preparation, the instruction indicates that, splitting in the human body, it turns into the form of amines that penetrate the human brain and restrain the processes of seizure of serotonin and norepinephrine, thereby increasing the number of these hormones. The human brain receives false information about the already accomplished fact of obtaining pleasure from eating. Appetite is reduced due to a feeling of satiety from a small amount of food.

Sibutramine, acting on adipose tissue, accelerates the breakdown of fat, "burning" it and thereby increasing energy consumption.

The second component - microcrystalline cellulose, which is a part of the "Reduxin" tablets, describes the instruction as a sorbent that absorbs toxins, metabolic products, allergens, thus purifying the human body of "slags".

Both of these aspects, combined, contribute to weight loss. At the same time there is an increase in the serum concentration of high-density lipoproteins, the so-called "good" or "alpha-proteins", significantly reducing the risk of atherosclerosis and diseases of the cardiovascular system.

Simultaneously with the increase in the concentration of HDL in the blood for the preparation "Reduxin" the instruction also indicates a decrease in the level of total cholesterol, its carriers - low density lipoproteins, uric acid and organic fats - triglycerides.

About the dosage of the drug

Receiving capsules "Reduxin", as a rule, is prescribed once a day in the morning for 1 pc. During or before meals. At the same time, drink a medicine with a lot of water. In all the capsule forms of "Reduxin", the abstract indicates the need to determine the dosage individually for each patient necessarily by a doctor who has experience in the treatment of alimentary obesity or obesity, accompanied by diabetes in various forms.

You should start taking the medication with 10 mg. In case of poor tolerance of the drug, the dose is halved. If the effect of weight loss does not appear within four weeks of the beginning of reception of means "Reduxin", the instruction recommends to increase a dose to 15 mg. The course of therapy is recommended to continue at least 3 months.

There are completely different opinions as to how justified the intake of this drug is for weight loss, especially in the light of the recent television project "Lose Weight with Reduxin" by Elena Malysheva. In this project, an attempt was made to observe in real time the results of taking the "Reduxin" drug by a group of specially selected women who received a comprehensive diagnosis of "alimentary obesity in combination with food depression." The effect of losing weight was seen practically in all participants.

However, the narrowness of the choice of the control group is confusing. First, the attention of viewers was concentrated, mainly on the problems associated with food depressions, and secondly, there were no men in the control group. At the same time, the consultant repeatedly pointed out that this weight loss effect can be lost in the light of the emergence of new causes for depression, which can again lead to a change in the eating behavior of patients after the withdrawal of the reduction.

By the way, reviews on the non-prolonged action of capsules "Reduxin" can often be found on various forums and sites devoted to the problem of losing weight. Involuntarily there is a doubt about the effect of "addiction to the drug", extremely undesirable in this case, since the list of side effects of reduction and contraindications to its use is quite extensive.

In particular, during 4 months from the beginning of admission, such side effects as sleep disorders, dizziness, anxiety, dry mouth and taste change, as well as headache can be observed. In a number of cases, cardiac arrhythmias can occur in the form of tachycardia and changes in the pulse, as well as changes in blood pressure. There is also a tendency of patients to constipation and exacerbation of hemorrhoids.

And finally, in all the annotations to the preparation "Reduxin" are listed such contraindications to its use, as:

- mental illness;

- stroke;

- chronic kidney and liver diseases;

- Bulimia or anorexia;

- high blood pressure;

- congenital heart defects, myocardial infarction, and tachycardia;

- Alcoholism or drug addiction;

- simultaneous reception with antidepressants, neuroleptics ;

- individual sensitivity to the constituent elements of the drug;

- breastfeeding and pregnancy;

- adolescence and age over 65 years.

In any case, appoint this drug should only be a specialist. In pharmacies, the medicine "Reduxin" should be dispensed only on the prescription of a doctor, and the final decision on whether to use it as a means of losing weight or not, is for you only.