The drug Tebantin. Instructions for use

The drug Tebantin (instructions for use includes this information) is available in the form of capsules for one hundred, three hundred or four hundred milligrams. The contents of each of them are presented as a white crystalline powder. Upper part - pinkish-brown, lower - white, pale yellow or yellowish-orange (depending on the volume of the capsules).

Active active substance of the drug - gebapentin. Additional components are lactose monohydrate, gelatinized starch, talc, magnesium stearate. The shell consists of red and yellow iron oxide, gelatin and titanium dioxide.

Distributed in cardboard packs of five or ten blisters (in each of them - ten capsules).

The drug "Tebantin" instructions for use refers to a group of anticonvulsants. Its action is directed to the treatment of epilepsy. This medication is administered orally, characterized by rapid absorption. The maximum active active substance content in the blood is reached after three hours after taking the drug (and this dose does not depend on the dose). With regular use of the drug in question, this period decreases to one hour. In the course of the research it was found that the bioavailability of the medicament decreases with the increase in its volume. It was also found that eating (including fatty) does not significantly affect the absorption of the drug.

Gebapentin (the main active ingredient) is characterized by low binding to plasma proteins (less than three percent).

The drug "Tebantin", the instruction informs, regardless of the dose taken, has a half-life at five to seven hours. Unchanged, this medicine is excreted by the kidneys. When carrying out hemodialysis is removed from the blood.

If partial seizures are observed in adult patients and children older than twelve, the optimal antiepileptic effect is achieved when applying from nine hundred to one thousand two hundred milligrams of the drug in question per day. The maximum therapeutic effect is manifested after a lapse of two to three days after the start of taking the medication.

Below are two standard dosing schemes:

1. The first day - three hundred milligram of the drug, the second - twice as much, the third - nine hundred milligrams). On the fourth day, the volume can be increased to thousands of two hundred milligrams.

2. On the first day - nine hundred milligrams of the drug (in the presence of intense pains), in the second - one thousand two hundred.

The drug Tebantin (instructions for use contains this information) can be prescribed as an additional therapeutic agent for children between the ages of three and twelve (body weight of which does not exceed seventeen kilograms). In this case, the standard daily amount of medicament is 25-35 milligrams per kilogram of weight.

The drug Tebantin, whose instructions for use describe the therapeutic effect it exerts, is contraindicated in children under three years of age. It is also not prescribed to small patients from three to twelve as the only remedy, since there is insufficient data on its safety and effectiveness for this category of persons.

Patients with insufficient weight, a weakened organism or who underwent organ transplantation, it is strictly not recommended to increase the daily dose of the drug by more than one hundred milligrams at a time.

The drug Tebantin, which is confirmed by its effectiveness, may cause drowsiness, dizziness, amnesia, depression, rhinitis, arthralgia and other undesirable consequences.

In pharmacies, this drug can be purchased exclusively on prescription.