"Imodium", the instruction. Indications, dosing, side effects and contraindications

The drug "Imodium", the instruction indicates, is produced in three forms: tablets intended for resorption, for chewing, capsules for ingestion. The active substance of the drug is loperamide hydrochloride, which refers to the clinical and pharmacological group of antidiarrore symptomatic agents.

Pharmacological action is provided by the ability of loperamide to influence the function of opioid receptors located in the intestinal wall. As a result, the secretion of lipid physiologically active substances is inhibited, as a consequence, the peristalsis of the intestine decreases , and the duration of digestion increases.

The active substance is well absorbed by the body, it breaks down completely into metabolites, which are excreted with caloric masses.

After treatment with the drug, the tone of the sphincters increases, the ability of the body to restrain during urge to defecate increases.

The preparation "Imodium", the instruction on application

Assign patients suffering from diarrhea in acute or chronic form, as well as to normalize the stool to patients with ileostomy.

Medication «Imodium», instructions for dosing

The doctor prescribes the drug to patients who have reached the age of 12 and adults. The first dose is taken by an increased dose of 4 mg of loperamide hydrochloride. This corresponds to 2-mind capsules or 2-mind tablets. After the first admission, the patient's chair is waiting, then take one capsule or tablet each after a diarrhea bowel movement. The doctor considers that the daily dose can not exceed more than 4 tablets. "Imodium" is designed for a 2-day course of treatment. On the 3rd day the drug is canceled.

When treating patients who have reached advanced years, reduce the dose of the drug is not recommended.
In the treatment of patients with kidney disease, reduce the dose is not recommended, because the drug is excreted by the hepatic apparatus.

Medicinal preparation "Imodium", instruction: side effects

Disturbances in the work of the digestive system are very rare changes in taste, pain in the abdomen, nausea, constipation, flatulence, vomiting, dyspepsia, intestinal obstruction, megacolon.

Allergic reactions were very rarely manifested by skin rash, hives, itching; In single patients with angioedema, bullous eruption, erythema, toxic necrolysis on the skin, anaphylactic shock, anaphylactoid reactions.

Disorders in the work of the genitourinary system were manifested in single patients by a delay in urine. Disorders in the work of the nervous system were very rarely dizziness; In single patients drowsiness.

Medication Imodium, contraindications

Do not administer the drug in the following cases:

• As a monotherapy for acute dysentery, which is complicated by spotting in the stool, it is combined with a high body temperature
• (Under such circumstances, treatment should be comprehensive).
• With bacterial enterocolitis, the causative agents of which are Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp., Shigella spp.
• With ulcerative colitis during an exacerbation.
• With pseudomembranous colitis, the field of antibiotics.
• For children under 12 years of age.
• With increased sensitivity to the components of the drug.

"Imodium" remedy during pregnancy

In order for a doctor to prescribe a drug to a pregnant woman who is on the first trimester of bearing a fetus, very strict indications are required for its use. Data on the influence of Imodium on fetal development are absent.

In breast milk, the active substance of the drug was detected during clinical trials. Therefore, taking the drug during lactation is not recommended, since there is no data on the ongoing studies in this direction.

Medication "Imodium", instruction: special instructions

The doctor should be cautious when prescribing the drug to patients who suffer from liver failure. It is necessary to control the slightest changes in the patient's condition. In conjunction with Imodium, it is recommended to carry out etiotropic and rehydration treatment.