Papaverine hydrochloride is a substance known to a huge number of women who were preserved during pregnancy. It is well known to people with diseases of a cardiovascular nature. One of the drugs widely used in our country, which includes this substance, is the drug Papazol. The instructions for use proposed by the author will allow the reader to learn about the beneficial properties of the medicine and the dangers that its uncontrolled use is fraught with. The publication is divided into logical paragraphs and includes the main sections that are characteristic of drug annotations.
What is Papazol?
Instructions for use inform us that the drug is an antispasmodic. It also has a hypotensive, arterial dilating effect on the body. Papazol is a combined medicine. It consists of two active substances in equal amounts: papaverine hydrochloride and bendazole.
The tablets are flat, cylindrical, rounded gray-white in color with a chamfer for division. The manufacturer packs them in blisters, and then in paper boxes with the inscription "Band."
Instructions for use, applied as a mandatory element to each pack of medicine, describe in detail the properties of each component, and also contains information on the amount of substances in one tablet. In the framework of this article, it is not possible to consider in detail the pharmacological properties and the mechanism of action on the patient’s body, therefore we restrict ourselves to a brief and generalized description above.
Indications for the appointment of the drug "Papazol"
Instructions for use in the section "Indications" gives the following conditions of patients:
- labile arterial hypertension;
- smooth muscle spasms (in vessels supplying the central nervous system, muscles of other organs);
- facial nerve palsy (peripheral);
- consequences of poliomyelitis.
A medicine can only be prescribed by a doctor, as it has a number of contraindications, and if the dose is exceeded and taken incorrectly, it can cause significant harm to the patient. The doctor, when deciding on the nature and duration of therapy, takes into account all possible consequences, compares them with the expected effects, and only then draws a conclusion about the appropriateness of treatment using the Papazol tool.
Contraindications for appointment
In the instructions for the medicine, you can see the following restrictions for taking tablets:
- hypersensitivity (almost every modern drug has this limitation);
- violation of AV conduction;
- bronchial obstructive syndrome;
- epileptic seizures and tendency to them;
- age up to three years.
Very carefully and only with constant monitoring by the doctor, the drug is prescribed to people suffering from liver, adrenal or renal insufficiency, decreased gastrointestinal motility, hypothyroidism, and prostatic hypertrophy; TBI, as well as pregnant women and mothers during lactation.
Side effects
The negative effect of the drug can be expressed in:
- increased sweating;
- nausea
- allergies of various manifestations;
- vomiting
- violation of the stool (constipation);
- AV blockade;
- arrhythmias:
- decreased myocardial contractility.
The likelihood of a side effect increases with self-medication and incorrect dosages, as well as taking the drug in conjunction with other medicines without consulting a doctor.
Patients should be aware that Papazol has the ability to enhance or weaken the effect of other drugs. Even when prescribing therapy by a doctor, you must constantly consult about the possibility of taking any other drugs. Only the observance of precautions can provide the desired therapeutic effect.