The body's reactions to vaccinations, various diseases, and teething are just a few of the causes of fever in children. For the treatment of babies, various antipyretic medicines are provided. When choosing a quality drug, not only cost is taken into account, but also ease of use. All the requirements of caring parents correspond to the suspension "Panadol". In this article, indications for the use of this agent, dosage and adverse reactions will be considered.
Operating principle
"Panadol" is actively used to rid children of fever and pain of different localization. A medication has several important functions at once:
- Effective fight against the inflammatory process.
- Gradual decrease in temperature to physiological norm.
- Ridding a small patient of pain.
The active substance of the suspension is paracetamol, which belongs to the group of NSAIDs. A decrease in prostaglandins leads to a decrease in pain, as well as normalization of temperature. The drug begins to act immediately after oral administration. Active substances are absorbed by the walls of the gastrointestinal tract. After 60 minutes, you can observe the maximum concentration of paracetamol in blood plasma, which allows you to normalize the temperature and eliminate pain.
Medication "Panadol" is distributed as evenly as possible across all tissues and physiological fluids of the human body. Liver tissue is responsible for high-quality metabolism. In patients under 10 years old, the main metabolite is paracetamol sulfate. After 12 years, the body can synthesize conjugated glucuronide. The standard therapeutic dose of the Panadol suspension is excreted in the urine by 98%.
The composition of the drug
For the treatment of children, Panadol in the form of a suspension is most often used. This type of medicine is a thick syrup that has a pleasant strawberry flavor. Small particles of white color are allowed. The syrup is sold in bottles of dark plastic. The medicine is packaged in durable packs of cardboard. The Panadol suspension contains the active substance paracetamol.
Excipients:
- Xanthan gum.
- Apple acid.
- Sorbitol is crystalline.
- Lemon acid.
- Strawberry flavoring.
- A mixture of para-hydroxybenzoic acid esters.
- Water.
- Dye azorubine.
Indications for use
Suspension "Panadol" compares favorably with all its analogues in its effectiveness and availability. Pediatricians recommend using this medication to combat the following diseases and conditions:
- Facilitating the natural teething of primary teeth.
- Normalization of body temperature during the development of acute respiratory viral infections and other inflammatory diseases.
- Neuralgia.
- Decreased severity of the body's response to the vaccine.
- Relief of symptoms during scarlet fever, rubella, chickenpox, flu.
- Elimination of pain with sinusitis, otitis media, sinusitis, tonsillitis.
- Getting rid of the patient from muscle, headache, toothache and joint pain.
Despite the fact that syrup can be used for children from three years old, you should consult your doctor before using the drug.
Contraindications
Numerous reviews about the Panadol suspension indicate that this medication is highly effective and safe. The official instructions contain a list of conditions when the use of this drug is strictly prohibited.
The main contraindications to the use of a suspension:
- Impaired kidney function.
- Personal intolerance by the patient of the active components of the drug.
- The drug is forbidden to give to premature babies.
- Encephalopathy
- Renal failure.
- Hyperbilirubinemia.
- Severe form of anemia.
- Thrombocytopenia.
- Leukopenia
- Erosive and ulcerative lesions of the mucous membrane of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Children's age up to three months.
- Lactose intolerance.
Instructions for use
Suspension "Panadol" can be used only after consultation with your doctor. The drug is allowed to give the child a maximum of 4 times a day, every 5 hours. A single dosage depends on the age and body weight of the patient. Shake the product carefully before use. The suspension is given before meals, undiluted. After using the medication, you must definitely drink a glass of warm water.
An overdose of paracetamol can only be avoided if you follow a few simple recommendations:
- The daily dosage of children's "Panadol" should not exceed 60 mg / kg of body weight of the child.
- Premature babies and those younger than 3 months of age are given the drug only after prior consultation with a doctor.
- It is not necessary to bring down the temperature if it is below 38 ° C.
- The drug is best used as an antipyretic.
- The medication is not intended for long-term use, because of which it should be used only if necessary.
To normalize body temperature, the suspension is used for 3 days, and to eliminate the “Panadol” pain syndrome, the child is given a maximum of 5 days in a row.
Adverse reactions
If the permissible dosage of the children's “Panadol” has been exceeded, then this will negatively affect the work of the whole organism. If you do not follow all the instructions of the pediatrician, then the likelihood of developing adverse reactions is high:
- Increased activity of renal enzymes.
- An increase in the size of the liver.
- The development of allergic reactions.
- The occurrence of interstitial nephritis.
- Disorders in the liver.
- Increased drowsiness.
- Loss of consciousness.
- Disorder of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Tachycardia.
- Impaired appetite.
- Blanching of the skin.
Significant excess of the allowable dosage of children's "Panadol" can provoke coma and death. The manifestation of adverse reactions can not be ignored. The patient must be washed the stomach, prescribed high-quality sorbents, hemodialysis.
Consequences of an overdose
The universal suspension "Panadol Baby" has numerous beneficial properties. An overdose can occur if the child independently drank a large amount of syrup, which is in his direct access. To avoid this situation, you need to clean the medicines in a safe place.
In most cases, the drug is well tolerated by all patients. Negative reactions occur only in rare cases. An overdose is fraught with the following symptoms:
- Sleep disturbance, moodiness, anxiety, headaches, dizziness.
- Nausea, lack of appetite, lethargy, epigastric pain, necrosis of liver cells.
- Severe swelling of the tissues and mucous membranes of the respiratory system, an abundant rash throughout the body, redness of the skin.
- A significant decrease in the total amount of urine excreted per day, the development of acute renal failure.
- The development of glycemic coma, a decrease in serum sugar.
- Blue nasolabial triangle, pain in the heart, the development of dangerous thrombocytopenia.
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Interaction with other medicines
If the patient simultaneously takes several drugs at once, then this is fraught with various complications and a deterioration in overall health. To avoid negative consequences, it is necessary to consider the drug interaction of the Panadol suspension:
- The use of inhibitors of microsomal liver enzymes significantly increases the risks of hepatotoxic effects on the body.
- The combined use of Panadol and specific uricosuric medicines leads to a decrease in the positive therapeutic effect.
- "Colestyramine" can several times lower the rate of absorption of the mucous membrane of paracetamol.
The simultaneous use of "Diphenin", "Phenytoin", "Rifampicin", antiepileptic drugs or "Carbamazepine" is fraught with an increase in hydroxylated metabolites.