The autumn-winter period is often associated with the cold season. At this time of the year, not every immune system can withstand the influx of viral and bacterial infections. If the immune system is weakened and one disease smoothly flows into another, and the common cold becomes protracted, then it is worth helping the body with the use of immunomodulators. One of the most effective is considered to be Ribomunil. Komarovsky’s reviews recommend taking it in advance, before the cold season, somewhere in April-May.
Drug characteristics
The preparation consists of bacterial ribosomes titrated with up to 70% ribonucleic acid and proteoglycans of the membrane part of Klebsiella pneumoniae.
The immunomodulator Ribomunil is produced (Komarovsky’s reviews note its positive effect on the body during a period of viral diseases) in the form of tablets and granules. The tablets have a round biconvex shape, white color. Packed in a blister twelve and four pieces, with an amount of 250 ml (1/3 dose) and 750 ml (1 dose) of the active substance, respectively. Pills contain additional components, it is hydrophobic silicon colloidal, magnesium stearate, sorbitol.
Granules for suspension are white and contain 750 ml of active substance. Auxiliary components are polyvidone and mannitol (D-mannitol). The drug is odorless. Granules are packed in a bag of laminated paper, aluminum foil and polyethylene with a volume of 500 ml.
It is necessary to store the drug Ribomunil in a cool place inaccessible to children, at a temperature of 15 to 25 ° C. Komarovsky’s reviews note the strong immunostimulating properties of the drug, which are preserved only if it is saved correctly. Shelf life of the drug is three years.
The principle of action of the drug "Ribomunil"
Komarovsky’s reviews say that the drug is able to maintain the health of the child at a critical moment of the disease and prevent a similar ailment in the future. This property is based on the ribosomal proteoglycan complex, which includes popular pathogens of ENT diseases and various respiratory tract diseases.
The ribosomes that make up the drug are similar in their manifestations to bacterial genes. When ingested, they begin to actively produce antibodies. The effect of the drug is similar to a vaccine.
Membrane proteoglycans also work here. They activate immunity, increase the phagocytic activity of macrophages, polynuclear leukocytes. Stimulate the function of T and B lymphocytes, the production of serum and secretory immunoglobulins such as IgA, alpha and gamma interferon.
Ribomunil in the complex treatment of diseases significantly reduces the duration of the disease, alleviates symptoms, and helps to avoid the use of antibiotics. The drug is an excellent prophylactic against colds, acute respiratory viral infections, influenza, bronchitis, etc.
Indications for use
With a prolonged cold, the Ribomunil drug is indispensable. Reviews of doctors (Komarovsky in particular) are advised to use it for prevention and in the complex treatment of ENT diseases (pharyngitis, otitis media, tonsillitis, rhinitis, sinusitis, laryngitis). It is also recommended to use in the treatment of respiratory diseases (bronchitis, tracheitis, pneumonia).
Often they use the drug to prevent recurrent infections, especially in the autumn-winter period, when patients are sick for a long time, suffer from chronic diseases and live in regions with poor ecology.
Contraindications
Despite the effectiveness of using the drug, there are contraindications prohibiting the use of Ribomunil. Reviews of doctors (including Komarovsky) say that these are various autoimmune diseases and hypersensitivity to the components of the immunomodulator. It is not recommended to give the drug to children under the age of six months. As well as people with acute intestinal infection.
Reception during pregnancy and lactation
Special clinical studies on the safety of the drug during pregnancy and during breastfeeding have not been conducted.
Prescribing Ribomunil to pregnant and lactating women is possible if the expected benefit to the mother of the unborn child is several times higher than the risk to the fetus.
Ribomunil: instructions for use, price
Both the reviews of mothers and the effectiveness of the remedy for viral diseases make the drug especially in demand. They say that he helped more than one child to adapt in kindergarten. After the course of taking the drug, the children were not sick for six months, a year, two, and if the disease did occur, then it was easy.
So, adults and children over the age of six months are advised to take the drug once a day, in the morning, on an empty stomach. A single dose is 0.75 mg, regardless of the patient's age. So, if a medicine tablet contains 0.25 mg, then you need to drink three pills at a time.
One granule is equal to the dose of administration - this is 0.75 mg of the active substance. Before use, they are dissolved in a small amount of boiled water. Mostly recommended for children.
In the first month, the drug is drunk for three weeks, four days a week. In the following months (and treatment should last for 2-5 months), the first four days of each month, the Ribomunil drug is used.
The immunomodulator will support children's health with three-month preventive courses, which are recommended to be carried out twice a year, in spring and autumn. You can also use the drug once a year for a six-month course. This is a good prevention of colds. In this case, the tablets are drunk the first four days of each month.
The cost of the Ribomunil drug (customer reviews say that due to the effectiveness of the drug it pays off completely), depending on the pharmacy network, ranges from 270-400 rubles, and the course will cost the patient about three thousand rubles. The price is rather big, but if you take into account that every time such an amount is spent on treatment for a disease, you can think about purchasing it.
Side effects
At the beginning of treatment, there may be an increase in the symptoms of chronic diseases, such as rhinopharyngitis, tonsillitis, laryngitis, ear infections. The appearance of sinusitis, gastroenteritis, bronchitis is possible. In rare cases, lymphadenopathy, hypersensitivity, urticaria, angioedema are observed. There was an increase in cough, the occurrence of bronchial asthma. Sometimes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pain in the abdomen. While taking the drug, eczema, simple and nodular erythema, vascular purpura, pyrexia, asthenia were recorded.
No cases of overdose with Ribomunil have been identified.
In order to avoid side effects, you should not prescribe the drug yourself, a doctor's consultation is required.
special instructions
Very often, Ribomunil is used in complex treatment. Efficiency and customer reviews marked him as the best tool for the treatment and prevention of infections. It was also noted that the therapeutic treatment, where Ribomunyl was combined with other drugs, did not cause a deterioration in well-being in patients, and no side effects were noted.
Special studies on the interaction of the immunomodulator with other drugs have not been conducted.
If when taking the drug there is a significant increase in temperature (more than 39 ° C), then the use of the drug should be stopped, and you should not use it in the future, even after the body returns to normal.
At the beginning of taking the drug, a transient increase in temperature is sometimes observed, which can last for 2-3 days. If this temperature is well tolerated by the patient, then antipyretic drugs should not be taken. At the same time, the symptoms of diseases of the ENT organs are amplified. This state of affairs does not require discontinuation of the drug.
At the progressive stage of the disease, Ribomunil does not replace other drugs (antibiotics, expectorants, anti-inflammatory drugs and other drugs), but is prescribed in addition to the therapeutic complex. The use of an immunomodulator during remission does not require the appointment of other medications.
Reviews of patients and Komarovsky about the drug
Reviews about (the immunomodulator "Ribomunil" is safe and well tolerated by patients) are very different. Some people say that after taking it, they became sick less often. The children finally started attending kindergarten, and even in the cold season they managed to stay healthy. Some note that they did not stop getting sick at all, but cases of the disease were less common, and the healing process was faster.
Negative reviews say that taking Ribomunyl negatively affected their immune system. After discontinuation of the drug, they did not cease to hurt, and the disease was even worse than before.
The famous doctor Komarovsky often prescribes this drug. He considers Ribomunil and Bronhomunal to be the best immunomodulators. He says that they have absolutely identical properties. It is advised to use them both for the prevention of infections and in the complex treatment of infectious diseases. Warns that the drug is not a panacea for disease. In addition to medicines, it is necessary to temper the child, provide him with good and proper nutrition, ensure normal humidity (40-55%) and temperature conditions (not more than 22 ° C), regularly air the nursery, walk outdoors as often as possible and move more.
These measures, along with Ribomunil, will not only prevent viral infections, but also strengthen the body, make it stronger, stronger and healthier.