The drug "Cycloferon" (Cycloferon) is available in tablets - fifteen hundredths of an active substance in each, in blisters of fifty pieces.
The pharmacological effect of the drug Cycloferon (tablets) is described in the instructions for use as follows.
This medication relates to antiviral and immunomodulating agents. Thanks to it, the production of endogenous interferon is enhanced. The spectrum of activity of this drug is very wide, it is characterized by anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antiproliferative, antitumor, immunomodulatory effects. The drug is able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier, as well as activate stem cells in the bone marrow. It causes an improvement in various viral infections, including influenza, herpes, hepatitis, tick-borne encephalitis, cytomegalovirus infection, HIV, enterovirus and papillomovirus. It also affects bacteria and chlamydia due to the activation of the immune system. It is able to prevent the formation of tumor processes in the body, since it has anticarcinogenic and antimetastatic effects. It reduces autoimmune processes in the body, which is clearly manifested by the weakening of pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and pathologies of connective tissue. After taking Cycloferon® inside, the maximum plasma concentration of the drug is reached after two to three hours. The half-life of the drug is four to five hours. In case of prescribing Cycloferon medication in the recommended dosage, the accumulation of the active substance does not occur.
Indications for the appointment of the drug "Cycloferon" (tablets), instructions for use give such. Adults, as part of complex therapy for: herpetic and neuroinfections, including tick-borne borreliosis and serous form of meningitis, acute respiratory infections, influenza, acute intestinal infections, secondary due to bacterial and fungal flora, immunodeficiency, chronic viral hepatitis B and C, HIV infection stages 2A -3V.
In pediatric practice: as part of the complex treatment of herpes infection, in acute and chronic viral hepatitis B and C, HIV infection of stages 2A-3B and acute intestinal infections, with the aim of preventing and treating various types of influenza, acute respiratory infections.
Methods of using the drug "Cycloferon" (tablets), the instructions for use describe such. Assign it once a day thirty minutes before meals. The tablet is swallowed whole, without chewing, washed down with water. With herpes in adults, the drug is taken from two to four tablets, according to this scheme: in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, 20th 23rd day. The entire course is twenty to forty tablets (three to six grams). Treatment should begin in the phase of exacerbation of the disease.
In acute respiratory infections and influenza, the Cycloferon preparation (tablets) recommends that the instructions for use be prescribed two to four times a day, ten to twenty tablets (one and a half to three grams) per course. Reception begins with the first symptoms of the disease. With the development of a severe form of pathology, six tablets should be used for the first dose. In chronic forms of hepatitis B and C, the Cycloferon drug recommends taking four tablets, according to the above basic scheme, later they switch to taking the drug in a maintenance regimen - four tablets every three to five days, the duration of the course is three and a half months while maintaining the activity of infection. A second course is prescribed twice - each time one month after the previous one, together with interferon and antiviral drugs.
There are mostly positive reviews about the Cycloferon preparation (tablets), it gives a good effect, due to which many patients received real health improvements.