Today, various cardiovascular diseases occupy one of the leading places among other ailments. There are many reasons for the occurrence of such diseases. Bad habits or a hereditary predisposition, sedentary lifestyle or stress - all the most important organ suffers from all this. One of the most dangerous heart diseases is angina pectoris. To quickly stop the attack, nitroglycerin is taken. Indications for use of this drug, its properties and action will be described in this article.
General characteristics
Nitroglycerin is a synthetic drug used in medicine is enough
long. Despite the huge number of analogues, this medicine has not lost the status of the best and most reliable. Its main advantage is that it is very quickly absorbed into the blood and has a healing effect in a minute. Nitroglycerin is available in the form of tablets, capsules, injections and spray.
Nitroglycerine. Indications for use and pharmacological action
The drug has a vasodilating, antihypertensive, coronary dilating and antianginal effect. He is wide
It is used to treat cardiovascular diseases, sometimes with
biliary dyskinesia. The medicine dilates the blood vessels, brain vessels and
coronary arteries, relaxes the smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, bile ducts and other organs. Indications nitroglycerin also has a reduced resistance of the coronary and peripheral vessels - it reduces the return of venous blood to the heart. The drug redistributes the blood flow in the myocardium (heart muscle), minimizing ischemic lesions after myocardial infarction and enhancing myocardial contractile function. Nitroglycerin helps to improve metabolic processes in the myocardium and reduce its oxygen demand.
List of diseases
In what cases is nitroglycerin taken? Indications for use of the drug
the following: bouts of angina pectoris, impaired biliary tract motility, clogged central retinal artery,
left ventricular failure, prevention and treatment of unstable angina, chronic heart failure,
acute coronary syndrome and biliary colic, chronic pancreatitis, esophageal dyskinesia.
Nitroglycerin intake
With a long and systematic administration of the drug, addiction to its action occurs, therefore, to obtain an effective result, it will be necessary to increase the frequency of doses or the dose. Currently, nitroglycerin, the indications for use of which is mainly cardiovascular pathology, is used in the form of tablets and capsules, less often in the form of a 1 percent solution. The most common drug in the form of tablets and capsules. In an acute attack of angina pectoris, one tablet is taken. If there is no proper effect, the dose is increased to facilitate. The daily amount of nitroglycerin is 6 tablets. The dosage form in capsules is applied under the tongue until completely dissolved. Chewing and biting both tablets and capsules is not recommended.