Joint pain is a common ailment that even young people are worried about today. However, busy with family and career, many people rarely go to the doctor, preferring self-medication. One of the most common drugs used to reduce pain is Aertal cream and tablets. Reviews of patients whom this remedy helped, usually serve as an unspoken recommendation for those who want to get rid of the disease without visiting a doctor. This is extremely dangerous! Aceclofenac (this is the name of the active substance and the international name of the drug) has many contraindications. Its independent use can harm the body, which will be impossible to fix.
The drug "Aertal." Indications for use
The medicine is marketed in the form of cream and tablets. Why is Aertal Cream needed? Reviews of experts suggest that it helps with bruises, sprains, dislocations. It also helps in more serious cases: relieves pain with myositis, tendosynovitis, polyarthritis. Tablets are often prescribed for different types of arthritis. They relieve inflammation in juvenile, rheumatoid, gouty, psoritic arthritis, spondylitis and osteoarthritis. The medicine not only reduces inflammation, but also reduces fever, has an analgesic effect.
Aertal tablets. Instruction manual
The price of the drug is another reason for some patients to buy it without a doctorβs prescription.
60 tablets (0.1) cost within five hundred rubles. But this is not a reason for self-medication! A medicine intended for symptomatic treatment can only be recommended by a specialist. If the doctor does not prescribe a special course, the tablets are taken according to the instructions: a tablet in the morning and evening. It should be remembered that for some, aceclofenac causes nausea or vomiting, so it should be washed down with plenty of water.
The cream is applied to sore spots three times a day. A small pea is the dose for one affected area. What threatens an overdose of Aertal? Reviews of doctors warn that even a cream can cause nausea and vomiting, increased convulsive readiness, allergic reactions. An overdose of tablets is even more dangerous.
Overdose and side effects
How does an overdose of Aertal tablets manifest? Doctors' reviews warn: if the dose is at least slightly above the norm, then you may experience:
- Disorders of the central nervous system: dizziness, convulsions, hyperventilation, headache.
- Digestive disorders: vomiting, nausea, sharp abdominal pain.
If, after taking the medicine, such deviations occur, the patient should be given coal and urgently call a doctor.
Among the side effects can be observed:
- Gastric bleeding, ulceration.
- Stomatitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis.
- Drowsiness or insomnia, increased agitation or lethargy, tremors, panic attacks, paresthesias.
- Tachycardia, congestion in the heart.
- All types of allergies.
The medicine is almost never prescribed for the elderly, adolescents, nursing mothers. It is contraindicated for people suffering from gastric problems, diseases of the kidneys and other internal organs.