What is the Pantogam Asset Medication? Instructions for use, the composition and form of this medication will be discussed below.
Basic information (form, composition)
The product "Pantogam Asset", the instructions for use of which are stored in a cardboard box, goes on sale in the form of yellow gelatin hard capsules in size No. 1. Their contents are white powder (may have a yellowish tint).
The active element of this medication is L-, D- hopantenic acid. Also, its composition includes such auxiliary substances as magnesium stearate and microcrystalline cellulose.
As for the capsules (shell) themselves, they consist of glycerol, nipagin, nipazole, sodium lauryl sulfate, purified water, titanium dioxide, gelatin, yellow iron oxide.
In which packaging can I buy Pantogam Asset? Instructions for use states that this medicine is sold in plastic cans or contour cells packed in cardboard boxes.
Pharmacology
How does the Pantogam Asset 300 medicine work? Instructions for use states that the effectiveness of this tool is associated with the presence in its composition of gamma-aminobutyric acid. After taking the drug, this component acts on the GABAA receptors (channel complex).
The medicament in question is a (racemic) mixture of an equal amount of the R-type of hopantenic acid, as well as its S-isomer. The presence in the drug of the latter significantly improves the transportation and interaction of the drug with GABA receptors.
The Pantogam Asset medication, the instructions for use of which are discussed below, has a more pronounced nootropic and anticonvulsant effect than the first generation of hopantenic acid.
The use of the drug in question helps to increase the resistance of the brain to oxygen starvation, as well as the influence of toxic elements on it. In addition, this medication stimulates neuronal anabolic processes, combines a moderate sedative effect and a mild stimulating effect.
It should also be noted that Pantogam Asset has light anti-anxiety and anti-asthenic properties. Its use reduces motor excitability, activates intellectual activity, streamlines human behavior and increases its performance. Also, the medication in question slows down the pathologically increased cystic reflex and reduces the detrusor tone.
Kinetics
How long is Pantogam Asset absorbed? Instructions for use states that the absorption of this agent occurs rather quickly.
The drug penetrates the blood-brain barrier well , and is also not metabolized, excreted along with urine and feces unchanged.
Indications
What indications does Pantogam Asset have? Instructions for use (analogues of the drug in question are listed below) states that this medication works most effectively with:
- cerebrovascular insufficiency (due to atherosclerotic pathology of the brain vessels);
- epilepsy (especially when combined with anticonvulsants);
- cognitive impairment due to neurotic disorders, as well as organic brain damage (including due to skull injuries and neuroinfection);
- decreased physical and intellectual activity, psycho-emotional overload (to improve concentration and memory);
- extrapyramidal hyperkinesis (with Parkinson’s disease, myoclonus epilepsy, Huntington’s chorea, hepatolenticular degeneration, etc.);
- treatment of extrapyramidal syndrome, which was caused by the use of antipsychotics;
- schizophrenia (used in combination therapy);
- neurogenic disorders of urination (with pollakiuria, enuresis, imperative urinary retention, imperative urination).
Bans on admission
When should you not use Pantogam Asset? Instructions for use indicate the following contraindications:
- Lactation period.
- Hypersensitivity to capsule ingredients.
- First trimester of pregnancy;
- Acute or severe kidney disease;
- Minor age (due to lack of clinical studies).
The drug "Pantogam Asset": instructions
The use (reviews of the drug will be discussed later) this drug is subject only after consultation with the doctor.
Capsules are for internal use. Usually they are used 20 minutes after a meal, twice or thrice a day (morning and afternoon).
The standard dosage regimen for this product is 0.3-0.8 g per day. The maximum dose per day is 2.3 g.
The course of therapy with this drug can last from 1 to 4 months. Sometimes the medication continues to be taken for six months to a year.
After 3-6 months, a second course of treatment is acceptable.
Side effects
Sometimes, while taking the drug in question, patients have an allergy in the form of conjunctivitis, rashes on the skin and rhinitis. If these symptoms appear, it is necessary to reduce the dose recommended by the doctor or completely discontinue therapy.
Also, the use of this medication often causes such short-term and passing signs as a noise in the head, drowsiness and sleep disturbance.
Interaction, overdose
What signs of overdose can Pantogam Asset cause? Instructions for use (tablets with this name are not available) informs that with a significant excess of drug doses, the patient may experience symptoms of side effects. In this case, the victim needs gastric lavage, as well as symptomatic treatment and administration of enterosorbents.
According to the instructions, the Pantogam Asset drug is able to interact with certain medications. It enhances the effect of drugs against seizures, and also potentiates the effects of medicines that are used for local anesthesia (in particular, Procaine). Also, when combined with barbiturates, Pantogam Asset prolongs their effect.
It is impossible not to say that the drug in question prevents the occurrence of side effects of “Carbamazepine”, antipsychotics and “Phenobarbital”.
The combination of glycine and ethidronic acid enhances the therapeutic effect of Pantogam Asset.
Special information
What should the patient be warned about before assigning him the Pantogam Asset? Experts argue that taking this drug for a long time with the parallel use of other drugs that stimulate the central nervous system and have a nootropic effect is highly not recommended.
Analogs and reviews about the drug
The following drugs have similar therapeutic properties: “Tiocetam”, “Vinpocetin”, “Cavinton”, “Glycine”, “Lucetam”, “Piracetam”, “Nootropil”, “Fezam” and others.
According to consumer reviews, the drug in question is effective in neurotic disorders, schizophrenia and epilepsy (only in complex treatment), as well as cerebrovascular insufficiency and cognitive impairment due to brain injuries.
It should also be noted that good results after applying this medication are noted with psycho-emotional overload, decreased working capacity and mental activity, as well as with impaired urination due to neurological diseases.
The disadvantages of this tool include a large number of prohibitions on use and the inability to apply in children (for the latter there is a different form).