Pregnancy is the most crucial period in a woman’s life, when any negligence can turn into a complication and harm the fetus. During the bearing of the child, it is necessary to protect yourself as much as possible from diseases, stresses and other conditions requiring medication. After all, almost all the medicines for the expectant mother are indicated.
But there are times when you can not do without medication. And then drugs come to the rescue that have proven themselves not only as effective medicines, but also as harmless to women and to the unborn baby.
Doctors include papaverine - a relaxing antispasmodic drug. It is available in several forms: injection, tablets, papaverine suppositories and baby tablets.
Papaverine reduces the tone of all smooth muscles and organs without exception, relieves spasms of blood vessels, bronchi, abdominal organs, and eliminates pain.
The drug slows down heart rhythms, reduces the strength of heart contractions, lowers blood pressure, increases blood supply, and stimulates the outflow of bile during stagnation.
Papaverine is prescribed for smooth muscle spasms in diseases of the internal organs, most often in the abdominal cavity. Indications for use of the drug are renal, intestinal and hepatic colic, cholecystitis, spastic colitis, pylorospasm.
Papaverine is prescribed for vascular diseases: angina pectoris, narrowing of the heart vessels, vasospasms in the brain, hypertension, migraine.
In combination with other drugs, papaverine is used to treat bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory apparatus.
It happens that oral medication is not possible, which may be associated with diseases of the digestive system. In this case, a very convenient form of the drug is prescribed - rectal and vaginal suppositories with papaverine, which has a stronger antispasmodic effect on the pelvic organs.
Indication for the use of papaverine during pregnancy is uterine hypertonicity. Expectant mothers are usually prescribed rectal suppositories with papaverine, which are very convenient to use.
Hypertonicity of the uterus is a dangerous condition, since the muscles in tension can contract at any time and lead to a miscarriage. To prevent this from happening, they need to be relaxed, which is done with the help of papaverine. Suppositories with papaverine relax the muscles of all internal organs, lower blood pressure, make the woman calmer, slow down the heartbeat.
Many years of experience with the use of papaverine suppositories during pregnancy proves that the drug does not harm either the mother or the fetus. At the same time, the medicine perfectly prevents the threat of miscarriage, strengthens blood vessels, helping them withstand the stress during childbirth.
Like all medicines, papaverine has a number of contraindications and side effects. It can cause allergic reactions, drowsiness, constipation, sweating, lowering blood pressure. A contraindication to taking papaverine in a pregnant woman is hypersensitivity, tachycardia, high intraocular pressure, diseases of the liver and thyroid gland.
Most often, the drug is well tolerated and can be used for a long time.
During pregnancy, papaverine can not be used alone. Only a doctor can prescribe a medicine and determine the dosage. The most acceptable form of the drug is suppositories. Papaverine for pregnant women is sometimes prescribed as injections.
Usually recommend 2-3 candles per day at regular intervals. They are conveniently administered, and the effect of the drug occurs almost immediately.
If at the beginning of pregnancy the drug is prescribed to relieve tension in the muscles of the uterus, then candles with papaverine before childbirth are needed so that the cervix becomes softer and easier to open.