The respiratory system is one of the most important in the human body. She not only participates in the process of breathing and gas exchange, but also performs a number of certain functions, for example: voice formation, humidification, smell, protection from environmental factors.
In this case, the respiratory organs more often than others face a variety of ailments. Every year people suffer from acute respiratory viral infections, laryngitis, and sometimes they have to deal with more serious diseases: tonsillitis and sinusitis.
"Ceforal Solutab" is an antibacterial agent that is used to eliminate otolaryngological diseases, as well as diseases of the respiratory organs and urinary tract infections in men and women.
Pharmacological properties
The drug is a semi-synthetic antibacterial agent, "Ceforal" is used as an oral drug with a wide range of bactericidal effects, which increases the activity of the immune system to infections caused by:
- Moraxella cataralis.
- Streptococcal pneumonia of the lungs and tonsillitis.
- Haemophilus influenzae.
- Streptococcus pyogenes.
- Proteus mirabilis.
- Escherichia coli.
- Neisseria gonorrhea.
According to the instructions, "Ceforal Solutab" 400 mg is not effective against enterococci, pseudomonads, listeria, as well as staphylococci, enterobacteria, clostridia, bacteroids fragmentis.
Structure
Ceforal is made in the form of light orange tablets for oral use, which contain the active substance - cefixime trihydrate, the concentration of which reaches four hundred milligrams. Capsules are packaged in blisters in one, five and seven pieces.
Indications
According to the instructions for use, Ceforal Solutab is recommended to be used to eliminate various infectious diseases that cause harmful bacteria that are sensitive to the drug. The medication must be taken during therapy:
- Sinusitis (acute or chronic infectious and inflammatory disease of the adnexal nasal cavities of an allergic or viral etiology).
- Streptococcal tonsillitis (acute infectious pathology that affects mainly the tonsils).
- Pharyngitis (chronic inflammation in the mucous cavity of the posterior pharyngeal wall).
- Acute otitis media (rapidly occurring infectious and inflammatory lesions of the middle ear cavity).
- Acute bronchitis (a disease of the respiratory system in which the bronchi are involved in the inflammatory process).
- Uncomplicated gonorrhea (a sexually transmitted infection that causes damage to the mucous membrane of organs).
- A disease caused by microbes of the genus Shigella, transmitted by the fecal-oral method).
Contraindications
The ban on the use of Ceforal Solutab is an increased sensitivity to cefixime and penicillins. For children, the drug is not prescribed against the background of chronic kidney diseases. Particular care must be taken in the following cases:
- During pregnancy.
- With colitis.
- To old people.
- During lactation.
How to take "Ceforal Solutab"?
The effectiveness of the drug does not depend on food. The drug can be swallowed whole or diluted in water until a suspension is obtained. Daily dosage for adult patients and children weighing from fifty kilograms is one tablet, which can be taken in one or two doses.
For children from twenty to fifty kilograms, as a rule, half of the adult dosage is recommended for use. The duration of treatment depends on the type of infection and the nature of the disease:
- With the elimination of acute infectious disease of the pharynx and palatine tonsils, which is provoked by streptococcus, from ten days.
- In the treatment of otolaryngological infections, the duration of treatment varies from one to two weeks.
- To eliminate uncomplicated infections of the genitourinary system in men, therapy lasts from seven to fourteen days, in women - up to fourteen days.
Overdose
The drug increases the incidence of dose-related adverse reactions. The likelihood of signs of poisoning increases with the use of Ceforal Solutab with tubular secretion blockers, which include an anti-gout remedy. And also during therapy, it must be borne in mind that the drug can increase the effect of indirect anticoagulants.
Adverse reactions
Most often, when using “Ceforal Solutab”, according to reviews, digestive disorders appear in the form of pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Long-term use of “Cephoral” can lead to damage to the normal intestinal microflora. As a rule, when an antibacterial diarrhea occurs in mild form, it is necessary to stop taking the drug to eliminate it. It is not recommended to use antidiarrheal drugs against the background of pseudomembranous colitis during therapy.
Somewhat less during the treatment with Ceforal can be observed:
- Migraine.
- A state of depression that relates to mood disorders.
- Dizziness.
- A condition in which a person’s urine contains blood.
- A pathological condition in which there is a decrease in the level of leukocytes.
- Pathology of the circulatory system, provoked by a decrease in the level of leukocytes in the blood composition below normal.
- Pancytopenia (a pathological condition, a characteristic feature of which is a change in the composition of all blood components in the bloodstream).
- Blood clotting disorders.
- Eosinophilia (increased number of eosinophils in the blood).
There is a greater likelihood of developing the following allergic manifestations, which develop with the ongoing treatment with Ceforal Solutab:
- Nettle fever.
- Itchy skin.
- The pathology of red blood cells, the hallmark of which is the accelerated destruction of red blood cells.
- Inflammation of the kidney tissue and tubules.
With the development of allergic reactions, as well as if Lyell syndrome occurs during treatment, the use of drugs should be discontinued. In addition, before starting therapy, you need to check the history to exclude allergies with penicillins (according to instructions).
Analogs of Ceforal Solutab
Generics of the drug according to the current trace element are medicines:
- "Pantsef".
- "Iksim Lupine."
- "Supraks Solutab".
The analogues of "Ceforal Solutab" in the spectrum of effects include the following drugs:
- Axon.
- Bestum.
- Biotrakson.
- "Klaforan Bakperazon".
- Medaxon
- "Dardum Ificef".
- Kefoteks.
- Oframax
- Lendacin.
- Orzid.
- "Azaran".
- "Movoperiz".
- Lifaxon
- "Liforan".
- Sulperazone.
- Tarcefoxime.
- "Toroceph".
- Cephantral.
- "Movigip".
- Oritaxim.
- "Rocefin".
- Fortum
- "Cebanex".
"Azaran"
The drug has a wide range of bactericidal effects. "Azaran" is an antibacterial drug of the cephalosporin group, which is intended for parenteral use.
The medication is available in powder form for the preparation of a solution for intravenous and intramuscular administration. The drug has a yellowish tint.
With prolonged treatment, it is necessary to periodically monitor the picture of peripheral blood, as well as the coefficient of the functional state of the kidneys and liver. It is extremely rare during ultrasound examination of the gallbladder to see blackouts that pass on their own after the cessation of the drug.
It is not recommended to take ethyl alcohol in the treatment of "Azaran", as there is a risk of the following adverse reactions:
- nausea;
- vomiting
- flushed face;
- spastic pain;
- headache;
- lowering blood pressure;
- dyspnea;
- tachycardia.
The cost of the drug is 280 rubles.
Suprax
The drug is in the form of capsules for oral administration. Tablets are packaged in blisters of six pieces.
The duration of Suprax therapy depends on the diagnosis, the severity of the disease, the presence of complications and the characteristics of the patient’s body. According to the instructions for use, adult patients and children over twelve years of age, weighing more than fifty kilograms, are prescribed one capsule (four hundred milligrams) once a day.
The drug must be taken at the same time, washed down with water. The average duration of the course can take from five to ten days, if the clinical signs of the disease remain, then the patient needs to contact a medical specialist to make the correct diagnosis.
If the medication is used for too long, the patient may experience chronic diarrhea and severe colitis.
People who have previously suffered severe allergic manifestations on penicillin should take the drug with caution, have a tendency to increased sensitivity to antibiotics from the cephalosporin group, which is important to consider before starting treatment and it is imperative to conduct a drug tolerance test. The cost of the drug varies from 400 to 800 rubles.
"Pantsef"
The drug is made in tablet form. Capsules have a white tint, the drug is dispensed in bottles of dark glass or blisters of six or ten pieces.
The medicine has in its composition an active trace element - cefixime (400 milligrams), as well as a number of additional substances.
The daily dosage of “Pantsef” and the duration of therapy are determined by the doctor individually for each person individually. It directly depends on the diagnosis, age, weight and a number of other factors.
As a rule, the standard dosage is four hundred milligrams per day, that is, one tablet once a day. The medication should be consumed at the same time, preferably after a meal, without chewing, with water. The duration of treatment varies from five to ten days, depending on the diagnosis.
When the first improvements occur, it is not recommended to independently cancel the therapy, since the symptoms of the disease can return with a new force, and the source of infection will develop resistance to the active component. The cost of the medication is from 500 to 750 rubles.
Storage conditions
"Ceforal Solutab" refers to a group of semi-synthetic antibacterial agents, the drug is dispensed strictly according to the prescription. Shelf life is thirty-six months. Reviews about the drug are positive, but some are still more suitable for analogues.