The medicine "Asparkam" belongs to the category of medicines that are designed to regulate metabolic processes. The active components of the drug include magnesium and potassium, which easily pass through cell membranes.
Pharmacologically properties
Instructions for use "Asparkam" indicates that the medicine is used to normalize reflexes of muscle tissue, regulation of heart rhythm. A medication is produced in the form of tablets and injections. Analogues include preparations "Panangin" and "Asparaginate" potassium and magnesium.
Indications and contraindications
Instructions for use "Asparkam" explains that this medication is prescribed as part of a comprehensive treatment, and as a monotherapy. The characteristics of the drug allow its use in case of insufficiency in the body of potassium and magnesium, which arose, for example, as a result of taking diuretics. In addition, the medicine is used for heart rhythm disorders and other pathologies, for prevention and as rehabilitation for heart attacks. Before taking "Asparkam", you should consult a doctor. It is forbidden to use the medication for potassium retention as a result of renal failure, dehydration, and cardiac conduction dysfunction. You can not take pills for myasthenia gravis, erythrocyte breakdown, shock. Nursing and pregnant patients should use the medicine with caution.
Side effect and overdose
Many patients consider the medicine a harmless remedy and treat the treatment quite negligently. However, such an attitude to therapy is fraught with side effects and aggressive adaptation in the body. Instructions for use "Asparkam" explains that the medication should not be taken for self-medication, as the risk of adverse reactions and overdose increases. With improper use of the drug, varying intensities of digestive disorders, heart rhythm disturbances and irritation of the arterial walls can be observed. Excessive medication can cause an imbalance and impaired conduction of the heart rhythm. In case of an overdose, symptoms such as redness of the skin of the face, numbness of the extremities, irresistible thirst, unjustified cramps, drowsiness, pressure spikes, heart palpitations, weakened breathing and even coma are observed.
The medicine "Asparkam": instructions, price
Adults are advised to take two pills three times a day. The duration of therapy is 1 month. Intravenously, the solution is administered for five days two times a day, 20 ml each. In general, the dosage is determined in each case and depends on the degree of hypokalemia. The medicine is not compatible with all drugs. Thus, the instructions for use of Asparkam reports that with the simultaneous administration of ACE inhibitors and potassium-sparing diuretics, the risk of hyperkalemia is significantly increased. You can not quickly inject the medicine into a vein, since exacerbation of the same hyperkalemia may occur. The cost of tablets is 21 rubles, injection - 97 rubles.