The release form of the drug "Allohol" - coated biconvex tablets with a surface color from yellow-green to orange. In a transverse fault, a core surrounded by a two-layer shell becomes visible. In a contour mesh plate - ten or fifty tablets, the plates are placed in a cardboard box.
The drug "Allohol": description, composition
One tablet contains eighty milligrams of dry or condensed bile, calculated on dehydrated substance, dried garlic powder - forty milligrams, nettle leaf - five milligrams, activated carbon - twenty five milligrams, as well as excipients: potato starch, magnesium oxide , calcium stearate , Aerosil, basic magnesium carbonate, povidone, titanium dioxide, talc, beeswax, paraffin oil.
Pharmacotherapeutic group
Cholagogue.
The pharmacodynamics of the drug "Allohol" instructions for use are described as follows:
This drug improves the function of the secretion of liver cells, has a stimulating effect on the synthesis of bile acids, helps to increase the osmotic gradient between blood and bile, thereby increasing the filtration of electrolytes and water into the bile capillaries, and increases the flow rate of bile along the bile ducts. He also provides prevention of ascending infections and reduces the intensity of inflammation, reduces the chance of cholesterol precipitation and subsequent formation of stones. And the increased output of bile into the intestinal lumen reflexively increases the motor and secretory activity of the digestive tract, improves the process of emulsification of food fats and, in general, the entire process of its digestion. Garlic, which is part of the drug, inhibits the fermentation processes in the intestinal lumen, thereby reducing flatulence.
Pharmacokinetics "Allohol"
In the intestine, it is easily absorbed and quickly enters the circulation between the liver and duodenum.
For the drug "Allohol", the instructions for use describe such indications for use:
Cholecystitis in a chronic form, uncomplicated cholelithiasis, impaired motility of the muscles of the gallbladder, condition after its removal, constipation, uncomplicated gallbladder cholesterosis, intestinal hypotension.
The dosage and method of taking the drug "Allochol" instructions for use gives the following:
For adults - one or two tablets three or four times a day, the course of treatment is three to four weeks. In case of exacerbation, it is prescribed in the amount of one tablet two or three times a day after meals, lasting one to two months. If necessary, this course is repeated two to three times, taking breaks for a period of three months. This drug is not prescribed for children.
Side effects of the drug "Allohol" instructions for use lists the following:
Diarrhea, various allergic reactions, up to Quincke's edema.
Contraindications for the use of this drug, which the annotation lists:
"Allohol" is contraindicated in children, patients who are particularly sensitive to certain components of this medication, patients with acute hepatitis, acute and subacute forms of liver dystrophy, obstructive jaundice, acute enterocolitis.
Overdose of the drug:
Acute poisoning "Allocholum" is not described.
Features of the application of "Allohol"
Starting from the fifth to eighth day of therapy, an improvement is observed (dyspeptic symptoms disappear, pain in the hypochondrium on the right decreases). In case of cholelithiasis, the drug should be used with caution, and when the size of the stones is more than ten millimeters, its administration is prohibited.