"Cinnarizine" is an inexpensive and very effective drug that can eliminate disorders in the cerebral circulation. When treating children, it can be used only from 12 years old. The drug has a vasodilating effect, which has found application in the treatment of disorders in the peripheral circulation. In addition, the medication is able to exhibit insignificant antihistamine activity, which helps to improve blood circulation in the brain. Reviews about "Cinnarizine" are abundant.
Pharmacological forms
The manufacturer produces the product in tablet form. The drug is produced by several pharmacological enterprises, however, the trade name and active ingredient are the same for all drugs. The difference can only be in the auxiliary components.
Composition, description
The main active ingredient in Cinnarizine is the cinnarizine of the same name. In clinical practice, the medicine can be used with monotherapy and as an element of complex treatment. The active component is used, as a rule, for the prevention and treatment of diseases associated with circulatory disorders in the brain. Against the background of the use of the drug, small arteries expand, thereby improving blood flow in peripheral tissues and the brain.
Each Cinnarizine tablet contains 25 mg of the active ingredient. Additional substances most often act: potato starch, silicon dioxide, lactose monohydrate, povidone, magnesium stearate. The tablets of the drug are white.
"Cinnarizine" is a drug used to eliminate vestibular disorders.
Indications for use
For adult patients, Cinnarizine tablets can be prescribed for the treatment of a variety of pathologies, accompanied by disorders in the peripheral and cerebral circulation. Most often, the drug is used as an element of complex therapy. In accordance with the instructions for use, "Cinnarizine" is indicated in the following cases:
- Migraine.
- Prevention of the development of symptoms of air and sea diseases.
- Tinnitus, nausea, Meniere's syndrome and other disorders in the functioning of the vestibular apparatus.
- Circulatory disturbance in the brain on the background of encephalopathy, stroke focal disorders, head injury, senile dementia, cerebral arteriosclerosis.
- A chronic form of cerebrovascular insufficiency, leading to the development of headache, impaired attention, memory, tinnitus and other similar symptoms.
The list of indications of "Cinnarizine" is quite extensive.
As an auxiliary medication, it is widely used in the treatment of disorders in the peripheral circulation:
- Pathologies of blood vessels and arteries, having an inflammatory nature.
- Spasms of the limbs.
- Acrocyanosis.
- Paresthesia of the limbs.
- Coldness of limbs.
- Vascular ulcers.
- Thrombophlebitis.
- "Intermittent" lameness.
- Diabetic angiopathy
- Raynaud's disease.
Indications of "Cinnarizine" are described in detail in the instructions.
The drug can be prescribed for children from 12 years old, but doctors often use it to normalize blood circulation in the brain and in young children. Most often, the indications for his appointment are recovery and post-traumatic periods, improving learning ability.
However, parents should be aware that neurologists often play it safe and recommend taking Cinnarizine in cases where there is no urgent need for it. Poor student performance or poor sleep can speak not about pathology, but about the characteristics of the child that do not require therapy. Before using Cinnarizine in children under 12 years of age, you should make sure that the diagnosis is made correctly by consulting with other doctors. If the purpose of the drug is confirmed, then the dosage for children 5-12 years old should be reduced. Preferred is the use of "Stugeron", the active component of which is also cinnarizine.
For the treatment of pregnant women and women in the lactation period, the drug should not be used.
Contraindications "Cinnarizine"
Do not use the product if the patient has such physiological or pathological conditions as:
- Celiac disease.
- Lactase deficiency.
- Age to 12 years.
- The lactation period.
- Pregnancy.
- Hypersensitivity to cinnarizine or any auxiliary substance in the composition of the drug.
Use of medication
When taking tablets, adult patients need to drink plenty of water, they should be swallowed whole, not allowing crushing or crushing. There are no fundamental recommendations on the time of admission, but experts recommend taking the medicine after eating. Absorption of the drug occurs slowly, saturation of the tissues with the active component is detected several hours after application. The therapeutic effect becomes noticeable if the therapy is carried out in courses.
Standardly, in order to improve blood circulation, a three-day intake of one Cinnarizine tablet per day is indicated. The maximum permitted daily dose is 9 tablets.
In order to normalize peripheral circulation, it is indicated to take higher doses of the drug, however, exceeding the maximum dosage is unacceptable. In these cases, it is indicated to take up to 3 tablets three times a day.
A single dosage for an imbalance equals one tablet.
In order to prevent the negative symptoms of airborne and seasickness, it is indicated to take one tablet no later than half an hour before the intended trip. If you have a long trip, you should repeat taking the drug every 6 hours.
Children from 12 years old are shown to take adult doses of the drug, children 5-12 years old are shown to reduce the adult dosage by half.
In the lactation period, “Cinnarizine” can be used only after refusal from breastfeeding. The advisability of using the drug in pregnant women should be determined by the doctor after assessing the expected benefits and the likely risk.
Negative effects of the drug
According to reviews of “Cinnarizine,” some negative manifestations may develop during the administration of Cinnarizine, the likelihood of which can be minimized by using small doses at the initial stages of therapy, which gradually increase to the necessary levels. The following side effects of Cinnarizine are not ruled out:
- Muscular rigidity.
- Fatigue.
- Exacerbation or development of keratosis and lichen.
- Increased sweating.
- Nausea.
- Dyspepsia.
- Tremor.
- Dyskinesia.
- Holistic jaundice.
- Skin allergic manifestations.
- Dry mouth.
- Headache.
- Drowsiness.
If the patient develops extrapyramidal symptoms, the use of the drug should be stopped immediately. Similar situations arise most often in the treatment of elderly patients.
Analogues of “Cinnarizine” should be selected by a doctor.
The interaction of this drug with other medicines
When used concurrently with antidepressants, the sedative effect of the drugs is enhanced.
Joint intake with ethanol causes an increase in the inhibitory effect on the central nervous system.
The antihistamine effect that Cinnarizine possesses is capable of masking the correctness of the results of skin tests. Experts recommend stopping the use of the drug at least 4 days before they are taken.
Special instructions for using the medication
The drug "Cinnarizine" is capable of irritating the gastric mucosa. To minimize this effect, you should use the drug after eating.
It is important to exercise caution and prescribe the drug only in extreme cases to patients suffering from Parkinson's disease.
It is unacceptable to use the medication in patients suffering from renal, hepatic pathologies, porphyria.
Lactose is present in the composition, which excludes the possibility of its administration to patients with impaired lactose metabolism and lactase deficiency.
Cinnarizine is administered with caution to elderly people over 65 years of age with extrapyramidal disorders (chorea, spasm of the thorison type, athetosis, myoclonia, and tic). Such patients should undergo continuous medical examination because there is a high risk of relapse or worsening of the course of a neurological disease.
Overdose
The occurrence of acute overdose is accompanied by the development of arterial hypotension, a change in consciousness, vomiting, convulsions, extrapyramidal symptoms. There is currently no specific antidote, so the patient is shown gastric lavage, sorbent intake and symptomatic therapy.
Analogs
If necessary, “Cinnarizine” can be replaced by one of the following drugs that have a similar composition or therapeutic effect: “Omaron”, “Vintropil”, “Fezam”, “Stugeron”. However, it is important to remember that each of these drugs has a number of specific contraindications and is able to provoke negative reactions, so the feasibility of replacing the medicine should be evaluated by a doctor.
The price of Cinnarizine analogues can be quite high: from 150 to 800 rubles. The average cost of the product itself in Russian drugstores is at the level of 37 rubles.
Reviews on "Cinnarizine"
The drug is rated by patients as inexpensive and effective. Against the background of its use, headaches, a feeling of tinnitus, dizziness disappear, mental performance increases,
In reviews of "Cinnarizine," reports of negative manifestations during therapy are quite rare. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that self-medication is unacceptable and the doctor should prescribe the drug.