The drug "Lidevin" is a tool designed to eliminate the pathological craving for alcohol. The medicine is produced in the form of tablets.
Therapeutic effect of the drug "Lidevin"
Patient reviews suggest that the maximum effect appears 12 hours after using the drug. It contains B vitamins and the active substance disulfiram, which blocks the acetaldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme in the liver. In addition, disulfiram increases the concentration of the metabolite of ethanol (acetaldehyde), resulting in vomiting, flushing, malaise, tachycardia, nausea, and pressure. These reactions allow you to develop reflex reactions that cause an aversion to alcoholic beverages, their smell and taste. Vitamins included in the composition of the product allow normalizing the processes of tissue respiration.
Indications and prohibitions for the use of the drug "Lidevin"
Reviews of patients indicate that they used the medicine primarily for the treatment of chronic alcoholism, as well as for the prevention of relapse. There are much more contraindications. The use of tablets in severe cardiosclerosis, thyrotoxicosis, atherosclerosis, before and after infarction is unacceptable. It is forbidden to treat this drug with high blood pressure, sensitivity to its components, pathologies of the cardiovascular system, severe coronary insufficiency, pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchial asthma, pulmonary emphysema. In addition, appointments are not made for ulcers and erosive damage to the gastrointestinal system, diabetes, kidney and liver failure, epilepsy, mental nervous pathologies, glaucoma, and malignant neoplasms.
Side effects of the drug "Lidevin"
Reviews of people who used the tablets indicate that during treatment there is an unpleasant odor from the mouth, a metallic taste is felt. Taking the drug can provoke the development of gastritis, hepatitis, polyneuritis, nervous and mental disorders. In addition, memory may deteriorate, disorientation in space may occur, headache, asthenia, allergic reactions may appear. It is unacceptable to drink alcohol during treatment. The combination of alcohol with disulfiram can cause arrhythmia, heart attack, collapse, cerebral edema, angina pectoris. With caution, it is necessary to treat the drug to people over 60 years old, patients suffering from circulatory disorders, endarteritis.
Instructions for use of the drug "Lidevin"
Reviews of doctors give information about the following treatment regimen. Firstly, the product can be used no earlier than a day after the last drink. Lidevin tablets in a dosage of 0.125-0.5 grams are taken 2 times a day, according to an individual regimen prescribed by a doctor. After a week of treatment, a special ethanol-disulfiram test (reaction to alcohol) is performed. After that, the patient can switch to maintenance treatment and take the medicine at a dosage of 0.125-0.2 for one to three years.
The drug "Lidevin": price
The cost of the drug may vary (it depends on the manufacturer), tentatively it is 725 - 800 rubles.