The drug "Enzistal" describes the instructions for use as a tool that helps to compensate for the lack of pancreatic enzymes. Active ingredients: pancreatin, bile (bovine) extract, hemicellulose. The medicine is available in enteric-coated tablets.
Means "Enzistal" application instruction recommends for disorders of exocrine pancreatic activity in the middle and mild degree against chronic pancreatitis (except in cases of exacerbation). The drug is prescribed to improve digestive function with ulcerative colitis, after gastric resection, as well as with irritable bowel syndrome. The drug Enzistal also recommends the use of the drug to alleviate the symptoms of non-infectious diarrhea, complicated by excessive gas separation and bloating.
The drug is also indicated for people who do not have disorders of the digestive system to improve its functions. Means "Enzistal" application instruction recommends to eliminate nutrition errors (with excessive eating, eating fatty, unusual foods, irregular meals and more). The medicine helps to improve the digestion of food with impaired chewing function. The Enzistal tool is recommended also before an X-ray or ultrasound examination of the abdominal cavity.
The drug is indicated as an adjuvant to improve the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins and a number of medications (antibiotics, sulfonamides and others).
Means "Enzistal" instruction recommends that adults take a tablet immediately after or with food. Grind the tablet (chew) is not necessary. If necessary, the dosage is doubled.
You can take the drug for several days (with digestive disorders as a result of diet errors), and for several months or years (for inflammatory-dystrophic gastric pathologies, diseases of the intestines, pancreas, liver, gall bladder in a chronic course, when constant replacement therapy is required) . Long courses can be prescribed to the elderly, as well as patients after irradiation or resection.
Children from the age of six are recommended to take the Enzistal medicine twice or thrice a day after a meal after a meal.
Do not take the drug during an exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis (or in acute pancreatitis).
When prescribing Enzistal to patients with diabetes, it must be borne in mind that the tablets contain sugar.
Pregnancy and lactation are not contraindications to the use of the medication. However, the expediency of his appointment is established only by the doctor. In this case, the expected risk for the fetus or newborn and the expected benefit for the mother should be compared.
In the course of research, no negative effect on the speed of psychomotor reactions of a person has been established. In this regard, the instruction does not provide for restrictions when prescribing Enzistal medication to persons involved in potentially dangerous activities.
It should be remembered that the drug can cause a number of undesirable manifestations. In particular, when using the medication, diarrhea or constipation may occur. In addition, conditions associated with the manifestation of hypersensitivity to the drug (sneezing, lacrimation, redness of the skin) are also likely. Experts, however, note that when using the drug Enzistal in recommended doses, side effects are unlikely.
Contraindications to the prescription of the medication include hypersensitivity, mechanical jaundice, hepatitis (acute), pancreatitis (acute), obstruction in the intestines of a mechanical nature. For children under six years of age, the drug Enzistal is also not recommended.
Patient reviews about the drug are mostly positive. The advantages of the drug are its affordable cost, speed and good tolerance.
Along with this, experts recommend taking Enzistal medication with your doctor.