Phenibut instruction refers to drugs that can eliminate anxiety, tension, fear. The medication also improves sleep, reduces the severity and shortens the duration of nystagmus, lengthens the latent period. Taking the drug can effectively reduce asthenia and vasovegetative symptoms, in particular, headache, irritability, a feeling of heaviness in the head, emotional lability. When using the "Phenibut" means, mental performance is significantly increased, memory, attention, accuracy and speed of reactions are improved . The drug enhances interest and motivation.
Phenibut Instruction Indications
The drug is prescribed for anxiety-neurotic and asthenic manifestations, fear, anxiety, psychopathy, neurosis of obsessive states.
Phenibut for children is indicated for stuttering and tics, urinary retention with myelodysplasia (congenital maldevelopment of the spinal cord), enuresis.
The drug is prescribed for the prevention of anxiety conditions before surgery and painful diagnostic studies, with Meniere's disease, insomnia or nightmares in elderly patients.
Phenibut instruction allows for use in primary open-angle glaucoma in combination with other means, as an auxiliary medication in the treatment of alcoholism (to alleviate with withdrawal syndrome somatovegetative and psychopathological disorders).
The drug is also indicated for dizziness against the background of dysfunction of the vestibular analyzer of different origin, as a prevention of motion sickness.
Phenibut Instruction Dosage
The drug is recommended before meals, apply it inside. Adults are prescribed three times a day, 250-500 mg.
Patients under eight years old - 50-100 mg, from eight years to fourteen - 250 mg.
A single amount of the drug should not exceed 750 mg for adults, 500 mg for elderly patients, 300 mg for children from eight years to fourteen, up to eight years - 150 mg.
The dosage for various diseases is selected individually by a specialist.
The duration of treatment is from four to six weeks.
The drug is contraindicated during pregnancy, hypersensitivity, breastfeeding.
Taking Phenibut can cause increased irritability, itching, anxiety, agitation, drowsiness, headache, dizziness, and nausea.
As clinical practice shows, the drug is well tolerated by both adults and children.
With extreme caution, the drug is prescribed for lesions in the gastrointestinal tract of an erosive and ulcerative nature, liver failure.
Long-term use of the drug involves monitoring the performance of the liver and peripheral blood.
With the phenomena of motion sickness of a pronounced nature, Phenibut is ineffective.
Throughout the therapeutic course, it is recommended to refrain from hazard-related activities that require increased attention and speed of reactions.
It should be noted that sometimes you can buy the drug "Phenibut" without a prescription. In this case, prior to use, specialist advice is required.
When used in children, caution is required. The effect of the medication often depends on the individual characteristics of the child. So, in some children, the concentration of attention improves , irritability is eliminated, sleep is normalized. In other cases, parents note increased excitement, aggression, moodiness. If any unwanted symptoms in a child occur, consult a specialist. In this case, you may have to cancel the drug, replacing it with another, more suitable one.