Pantogam: instructions for use

The drug "Pantogam" instructions for use defines as a nootropic agent that stimulates the anabolic processes occurring in neurons, and increases the resistance of the brain to the effects of a variety of toxic substances and hypoxia. Also, this drug reduces motor excitability and has a pronounced anticonvulsant effect. In addition, Pantogam, the instruction to which this confirms, increases mental performance and perfectly combines a mild stimulating effect with a mild sedative effect, ensuring the normalization of GABA metabolism, for example, in the case of chronic alcohol intoxication. Among other things, this nootropic drug inhibits the reactions of acetylation and causes inhibition of the increased tonus of detrusor. Reduction of the bubble reflex is also provided by the preparation Pantogam. The cost of this medicine varies from three hundred to five hundred rubles.

Features of the dosage form of the release

The preparation is produced in the form of flat-cylindrical tablets of white color and in the form of a colorless or slightly yellowish syrup. The liquid has a sweetish taste and a slight fruity aroma. Pantogam syrup is produced in the amount of 50 and 100 milliliters, tablets - 0.5 and 0.25 gram each.

List of indications and contraindications to the prescription of the drug

This drug should be used to treat various disorders of cerebral functions (including children), mental retardation, hyperkinetic disorders, perinatal encephalopathy, and neurotic-like conditions such as inorganic encopresis, enuresis, tic clonic form, stuttering.

In addition, the instruction recommends the use of the Pantogam preparation for emotional overload, schizophrenia with cerebral insufficiency, a decrease in the mimetic-intellectual productivity caused by senile dementia, arteriosclerotic changes in the brain, organic lesions of toxic, traumatic and neuroinfectious genesis. Epilepsy associated with retardation of various mental processes, urination disorders (imperative urges, pollakiuria, imperative incontinence) and a violation of psychological status in young patients, manifested as a general delay in development, are also indications for the appointment of this drug. In addition, the instruction "Pantogam" recommends the use of the instruction when cognitive productivity, physical and mental performance and extrapyramidal disorders are reduced (Huntington's chorea, Parkinson's disease, hepatolenticular degeneration). To increase concentration and improve memorization, you can also use this nootropic remedy. The main contraindications to the appointment of the drug "Pantogam" are severe forms of kidney disease, individual intolerance to its components and the first trimester of pregnancy.