An effective medicine with a hepatoprotective effect is the heptor drug. Patient reviews indicate that after using the product, mood and overall well-being improve.
A medicine is produced in the form of an injection and enteric-coated tablets. Each capsule contains the active substance adenosylmethionine, as well as auxiliary components:
magnesium stearate, mannitol, single crystal cellulose, crospovidone, polyplasdone.
Pharmacological properties
The medicine, in addition to protecting the liver, has an antidepressant effect. The drug has cholekinetic, choleretic, detoxification, anti-fibrosing, antioxidant and neuroprotective properties. The tool allows you to make up for the lack of ademetionine in the brain and liver. In addition, the content of glutamine increases, metabolism in the liver normalizes, and the amount of methionine in the blood decreases. The drug helps reduce skin itching in patients with hepatitis or cirrhosis.
The therapeutic effect persists even three months after taking the medication. In people suffering from opioid addiction, which occurs with liver damage, after undergoing therapy, a regression of withdrawal symptoms is observed, the liver condition improves and
microsomal oxidation processes normalize
.
Heptor medication: instructions and indications for use
The medicine is prescribed for depressive syndrome, intrahepatic cholestasis, which occurs in the last stages of pregnancy and in pre-cirrhotic conditions, as well as for cirrhosis. At the initial stage of therapy, patients are prescribed intravenous or intramuscular administration of the drug, and then they switch to taking tablets. You can start treatment immediately with the use of the tablet form of the heptor medication. Patient reviews say that the capsules must be swallowed whole with a large amount of liquid. In this case, you can not chew. The greatest effect can be achieved by taking capsules between meals.
Side effects
Often there are negative reactions of the body after the use of the “Heptor” remedy. Reviews of patients indicate the occurrence of diarrhea, abdominal pain. Some patients claim that during treatment they experienced discomfort in the epigastric region, they began to have heartburn and nausea. In addition to intestinal and gastric disorders, side effects include anaphylactic reactions, rashes, anxiety, muscle cramps, arthralgia, hepatic colic, headache, insomnia, and confusion.
Heptor medicine: price and contraindications
It is forbidden to use the drug for hypersensitivity, as well as for patients who have a genetic defect in the metabolism of meteonine. It is not recommended to take medication for patients with bipolar psychoses, women in early pregnancy, as well as children. The medicine "Heptor" (reviews indicate this) can be purchased for 760 rubles.