"Isentress" is a drug belonging to the antiviral group. Use it in HIV therapy. The main active ingredient of the drug - raltegravir - suppresses HIV integrase, an enzyme that ensures the reproduction of viral particles in the human body. Thus, "Isentress" allows you to effectively restrain the development of the disease.
The drug is prescribed to patients with HIV infection, as a rule, as part of complex therapy. In addition, it is possible to prescribe a medication if the previous complex of antiretroviral drugs is ineffective.
Isentress: price
The cost of many drugs used to treat patients with HIV infection can hardly be called low. This is also the case with Isentress. Its cost in pharmacies in Moscow ranges from 25,000 to 49,000 rubles.
What is the reason for this difference? At "Isentress" the price is set depending on the dosage, country of origin and dosage form of the drug. So, tablets with a dosage of 25 mg of the main active ingredient, made in the USA, are the cheapest. Tablets manufactured in the Netherlands containing 400 mg of raltegravir will cost the most. Nevertheless, Isentress can be bought much cheaper. In this case, you need to pay attention to the generics of the drug.
What are generics?
This is the name of drugs manufactured by licensed pharmaceutical companies to prescribe original drugs. Due to what, in this case, a lower price is achieved?
The fact is that a generic manufacturing company does not spend large sums of money on formula development, drug testing and advertising. The recipe has already been developed by the company producing the original, it also conducts tests, the data of which are recognized as valid for generics. That is why such drugs are absolutely safe and effective in the same way as original medicines.
Where to get generic?
An Indian pharmaceutical company with more than five years of experience offers you to buy the drugs you need for treatment at lower prices. The difference with respect to the originals can be dozens of times.
All you need to do to use the services of specialists is to go to the site and provide his staff with a doctor’s recommendation for the necessary remedy. Your order will be delivered from India.
Isentress: instruction
The drug should be prescribed by a competent specialist with sufficient experience in treating HIV infection. The doctor also selects the dosage for each patient. As a rule, Isentress is prescribed in a dosage of 400 mg, two tablets per day.
You can use the drug, regardless of meals.
Side effects and contraindications
Isentress may cause the following adverse reactions:
- dizziness;
- blurred vision;
- stomach ache;
- constipation;
- arthralgia;
- acquired lipodystrophy;
- itchy skin;
- asthenia;
- feeling of weakness.
“Isentress” is not prescribed for children, pregnant and lactating women, as well as for individuals with individual intolerance to the components of the drug.