The drug "Dibazol UBF" is a vasodilator. This medication lowers blood pressure, improves spinal cord function, helps restore peripheral nerve activity, and has an antispasmodic effect. Also, the drug "Dibazol UBF" has a moderate immunostimulating effect, its components affect the production of interferon in the body. This drug after oral administration is well absorbed in the digestive tract. Therefore, its therapeutic effect is felt after 30-50 minutes and lasts up to two to three hours.
The main active ingredient in this drug is bendazole. Dibazol UBF is available in the form of tablets and injections for injections, as well as in the form of rectal suppositories, which are recommended for children. This drug is completely in its action, composition and form of release similar to the drug "Dibazol."
Indications for use
The medicine “Dibazol UBF”, the instruction recommends using, if necessary, eliminate spasms of peripheral arteries that occur in the presence of a hypertensive crisis, coronospasm or arterial hypertension. The drug is effective in the treatment of smooth muscle spasms that occur with an ulcer of both the duodenum and gastric ulcer, as well as in the presence of hepatic, intestinal or renal colic.
Often, the drug is recommended by doctors to use with polyneuritis, as well as with peripheral paralysis of the facial nerve and after polio, if there are residual effects.
The medicine "Dibazol UBF": instructions for use
If the patient has a hypertensive crisis, then either intramuscularly up to 4 ml of one percent solution or intravenously up to 8 ml of half percent solution is administered: in the first and in the second case, two to three times during the day. Also, the drug can be taken in pill form. Then it is used orally up to 3 times a day for 20 to 40 mg. The duration of treatment is up to one month.
If the nervous system is treated with the drug “Dibazol UBF”, then it is necessary to take at least 5 and no more than 10 times a day, 5 mg of the drug each time. You can take it daily or every other day. It depends on the severity of the disease, the entire course of treatment is 21-30 days. After a month, the treatment should be repeated again.
This medicine is allowed to be taken by children, but the dose is regulated depending on age: up to 1 year - 1 mg, up to 3 years - 2 mg of the drug, up to 8 years - 3 mg, children under 12 years old - no more than 4 mg, and to everyone who for more than 12 years, like adults, 5 mg of the drug.
Possible side effects
As practice shows, usually the use of the drug "Dibazol UBF" does not cause serious side effects. In rare cases, there may be an allergy to the skin, dizziness and the development of hypotension. If injections are made, then in the places of their introduction, minor pain is possible. If you allow the long-term use of this drug (above the recommended period), then there may be a deterioration in the ECG, as cardiac output decreases.
Contraindications
Do not use the drug “Dibazol UBF” in the presence of hypersensitivity to it, gastrointestinal ulcers, if there is bleeding, with arterial hypotension and with impaired renal function. If there are diseases in which muscle tone, convulsive syndromes, diabetes mellitus and heart failure are reduced, then this drug should also not be taken.
It is not necessary to use Dibazol UBF for a long time in the treatment of arterial hypertension, especially for the elderly.
Since the administration of this drug may slightly affect the reaction rate, after its administration it is necessary to carefully control transport and other complex mechanisms where increased attention is required.