Mexidol tablets are considered a broad-acting drug and save from many diseases. They relieve alcohol poisoning, treat prolonged depression. They are also often prescribed to people of advanced age suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. But tablets can also provide invaluable help to a healthy person: save them from overwork at work and restore strength after heavy physical exertion. Let's talk about the drug and its analogues.

Release form, composition and packaging

Mexidol is available in the form of injection solutions and white tablets with a light cream tint. A pack of tablets looks like a plate containing 10 tablets. There are boxes with 3 or 5 plates on sale. Each tablet contains 125 mg of the main active ingredient - ethylmethylhydroxypyridine.

An auxiliary component is lactose. The tablets also include potato starch, white clay, calcium stearate, octadecanoic acid, titanium dioxide and talc.

Injection solutions are available in ampoules of 2 or 5 ml, where 50 mg of the active substance are concentrated. Drinking and injecting the drug through droppers is important strictly according to the doctor’s prescription, observing the dosage and instructions for use.

Pharmacological action and indications for use

Mexidol protects cell membranes from the negative effects of poisons and toxins.It inhibits free radicals that cause poisoning of the body. Also, the active substance prevents seizures, protects against severe emotional shock, improves cerebral circulation.

The drug increases the body's resistance to external negative factors during intoxication against the background of alcohol poisoning or drug abuse. Also, tablets improve blood circulation, fight heart ischemia.

"Mexidol" is often prescribed for stress, shock conditions against the background of the loss of loved ones or disaster situations, such as accidents.

  • The drug significantly increases the level of the dopamine hormone in the brain, which is responsible for a good mood, helps control appetite.
  • Plus, Mexidol has a noticeable antioxidant effect, inhibiting the effect of free radicals, and at the same time lowers blood cholesterol.
  • The formula of the drug restores the neurotransmitter balance, normalizing the functions of the cell membrane. It improves the energy balance in cells, helping them renew faster.

Therapists often prescribe Mexidol in combination, making up a treatment regimen for protracted depression and deep stress. The active substance of the drug enhances the therapeutic effect of many drugs from antidepressants to sleeping pills, it is used by cardiologists, neurologists and psychotherapists.

Indications for use:

  • rehabilitation after ischemic stroke, with frequent ischemic heart attacks;
  • recovery after traumatic brain injury, craniotomy;
  • vegetovascular dystonia syndrome, accompanied by panic attacks;
  • a malfunction of the brain, for example, against the background of an injury;
  • chronic pathologies of the heart, blood vessels;
  • severe hangover after prolonged binge;
  • neurosis, severe emotional upheaval;
  • intoxication with potent drugs;
  • depression;
  • glaucoma.

Take "Mexidol" advised courses athletes who experience huge overload during the competition. Sometimes therapists find it necessary to prescribe the drug to people with heart disease to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Healthy people suffering from vegetative-vascular dystonia, constantly experiencing stress, intellectual workers, can take the drug to prevent the effect of burnout, to maintain energy balance and stress resistance.

It has been proven that the drug helps with cognitive impairment in the elderly. With memory loss, mental disorders, when a person loses the sense of time and space, Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s diseases, doctors prescribe Mexidol.

Instructions for use Mexidol

Instructions for use "Mexidol" suggests that they take the tablets whole without chewing and drink 100 ml of pure water. Adults are recommended to drink 3 times a day, 1 piece at a time. If necessary, the therapist increases the dosage to 2 pieces, but the duration of the course is usually the same –14 - 21 days.

Dosage regimen

For people with chronic cardiovascular pathologies, with coronary heart disease, after heart attacks, strokes, the recommended course is at least 6 weeks. At the same time, it is carried out twice a year: in autumn and spring, that is, during the period when the disease often worsens.

Special instructions for use

Since there are lactose in the composition of the tablets, people with individual intolerance to the substance, as well as everyone who has malabsorption syndrome, that is, suffers from malabsorption of nutrients in the small intestine, need to be careful with the discussed drug. Reception "Mexidol" in this case can lead to serious metabolic disorders, up to hair loss.

But in general, medical statistics indicate the low-toxic properties of the drug.Side effects are recorded extremely rarely, because it can be called universal for the treatment of neurological, cardiovascular diseases and severe mental disorders of a person.

You can either take pills during pregnancy and lactation

Clinical trials on how Mexidol is able to affect the fetus during fetal development have not yet been conducted. That is why during pregnancy, the drug is prohibited.

It is also unknown how much Mexidol is absorbed into the blood of a nursing woman and how much of the active substance passes into breast milk.

For this reason, lactation, like pregnancy, are temporary contraindications for taking the medication in question.

If the drug is prescribed to a nursing woman, then she will have to complete breastfeeding.

Drug Interactions with Other Drugs

"Mexidol" reduces the amount of toxins with severe alcohol intoxication, faster relieving withdrawal symptoms, especially when it is accompanied by a sense of anxiety.

While taking Mexidol with antidepressants, anti-seizure drugs, antipsychotics, tranquilizers, nootropic drugs, the therapeutic effect of the latter is greatly enhanced. So, a dose adjustment by the attending physician is necessary.

Contraindications, side effects and overdose

Like any other drug, Mexidol can cause a negative reaction from the body.

Common clinical symptoms:

  • dry mouth
  • vomiting
  • diarrhea or, on the contrary, constipation;
  • nausea;
  • cramping in the stomach;
  • insomnia;
  • feeling of fullness inside the abdomen;
  • bloating and increased gas in the intestines;
  • redness, swelling;
  • jumps in blood pressure;
  • rashes in the form of red spots, urticaria.

Drowsiness, nausea, inability to concentrate are signs of an overdose of the drug. For any side effects, it is recommended to consult a doctor and either reduce the dosage or completely stop taking the drug.

An absolute contraindication to treatment with Mexidol is chronic renal failure and childhood (up to 12 years), since the effect of the active substance on the growing organism is not known reliably.

Also, people who drive a car need to take the drug with caution - Mexidol can lower the concentration of attention, cause drowsiness.

Analogs of Mexidol tablets

In Russian pharmacies there are drugs that, in terms of their therapeutic effect, are partially equated with Mexidol. But the formulas for all tablets are different, so only an experienced therapist can choose a medicine for the needs of the body.

Analogs of Mexidol in tablets:

  • Venokor;
  • Armadin
  • Mexiprim;
  • Mexifin;
  • Neurox
  • "Dinar";
  • "Elfunat";
  • "Zameksen";
  • "Cerecard";
  • "Medomeksi";
  • Mexipridol;
  • Mexidant.

One should not replace one drug with another, and even more so engage in self-medication without the doctor’s instructions - this is fraught with dangerous consequences and an increase in side effect from various body systems. When purchasing the drug, it is important to pay special attention to storage conditions: the tablets are kept in a cool, dry place. Avoid direct sunlight. It is also important to securely hide them from young children.

The shelf life of Mexidol is 3 years from the date of manufacture. You can not use the drug later. The average price of packing tablets in pharmacy chains in Russia is about 300 r per package.

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