The body's reactions to vaccinations, various diseases and teething are just a few of the causes of fever in children. For the treatment of babies, various antipyretic drugs are provided. When choosing a quality drug, not only cost is taken into account, but also ease of use. Suspension "Panadol" meets all the requirements of caring parents. This article will discuss the indications for the use of this remedy, dosage and side effects.
Operation principle
"Panadol" is actively used to relieve children of fever and pain of different localization. The drug has several important functions at once:
- Effective fight against inflammation.
- Gradual decrease in temperature to the physiological norm.
- Relief of a little patient from pain.
Active substancesuspension is paracetamol, which belongs to the NVPS group. A decrease in prostaglandins leads to a decrease in pain, as well as a normalization of temperature. The drug begins to act immediately after oral administration. Active substances are absorbed by the walls of the gastrointestinal tract. After 60 minutes, you can observe the maximum concentration of paracetamol in the blood plasma, which allows you to normalize the temperature and eliminate pain.
Medication "Panadol" is distributed as evenly as possible over all tissues and physiological fluids of the human body. Liver tissues are responsible for high-quality metabolism. In patients under 10 years of age, the main metabolite is paracetamol sulfate. After 12 years, the body can synthesize conjugated glucuronide. The standard therapeutic dose of Panadol suspension is 98% excreted in the urine.
Composition of the drug
For the treatment of children, "Panadol" in the form of a suspension is most often used. This type of medication is a thick syrup that has a pleasant strawberry flavor. The presence of medium-sized particles of white color is allowed. The syrup is sold in dark plastic bottles. The medicine is packed in strong cardboard packs. The composition of the suspension "Panadol" includes the active substance paracetamol.
Excipients:
- Xanthan gum.
- Malic acid.
- Crystal sorbitol.
- Citric acid.
- Strawberry flavor.
- A mixture of para-hydroxybenzoic acid esters.
- Water.
- Azorubin dye.
Indications for use
Suspension "Panadol" compares favorably with all analogues in its efficiency and availability. Pediatricians recommend the use of this medication to combat the following diseases and conditions:
- Facilitation of the process of natural teething of milk teeth.
- Normalization of body temperature during the development of SARS and other inflammatory diseases.
- Neuralgia.
- Reducing the body's response to the vaccine.
- Relief of symptoms during scarlet fever, rubella, chickenpox, flu.
- Elimination of pain in sinusitis, otitis media, sinusitis, tonsillitis.
- Relief of the patient from muscle, headache, toothache and joint pain.
Despite the fact that the syrup can be used for children from three years old, you should consult with your doctor before using the drug.
Contraindications
Numerous reviews of the Panadol suspension indicate that this medication is highly effective and safe. The official instructions contain a list of conditions when the use of this drug is strictly prohibited.
Main contraindications to the use of the suspension:
- Kidney failure.
- Personal intolerance by the patient to the active components of the drug.
- Drug prohibitedgive to premature babies.
- Encephalopathy.
- Kidney failure.
- Hyperbilirubinemia.
- Severe anemia.
- Thrombocytopenia.
- Leukopenia.
- Erosive and ulcerative lesions of the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Baby age up to three months.
- Lactose intolerance.
Instructions for use
Suspension "Panadol" can be used only after consultation with your doctor. The drug is allowed to give the child a maximum of 4 times a day, every 5 hours. A single dosage depends on the age and body weight of the patient. Before use, the drug should be shaken gently. The suspension is given before meals, undiluted. After taking the medication, be sure to drink a glass of warm water.
Paracetamol overdose can only be avoided if a few simple guidelines are followed:
- The daily dosage of children's Panadol should not exceed 60 mg/kg of the child's body weight.
- Premature babies and those under 3 months of age, the drug is given only after prior consultation with a doctor.
- No need to lower the temperature if it is below 38 °C.
- The drug is best used as an antipyretic.
- Medicine is not intended for long-term use, which is why it should be used only when necessary.
To normalize body temperature, the suspension is used for 3 days, andto eliminate the pain syndrome "Panadol" give the child a maximum of 5 days in a row.
Adverse reactions
If the permissible dosage of children's "Panadol" was exceeded, then this will negatively affect the work of the whole organism. If you do not follow all the instructions of the pediatrician, then there is a high probability of developing adverse reactions:
- Increased activity of kidney enzymes.
- Liver enlargement.
- Development of allergic reactions.
- The occurrence of interstitial nephritis.
- Disorders in the liver.
- Increased sleepiness.
- Loss of consciousness.
- Disorder of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Tachycardia.
- Disturbed appetite.
- Pale skin.
Significant excess of the allowable dosage of children's "Panadol" can provoke coma and death. The manifestation of adverse reactions should not be ignored. The patient must wash the stomach, prescribe high-quality sorbents, and carry out hemodialysis.
The consequences of an overdose
Panadol Baby universal suspension has numerous useful properties. An overdose can occur if the child drank a large amount of syrup on his own, which is in his direct access. To avoid such a situation, you need to put the medicines in a safe place.
In most cases, the drug is well tolerated by all patients. Negative reactionsoccur only in rare cases. An overdose is fraught with the following symptoms:
- Sleep disturbance, moodiness, anxiety, headaches, dizziness.
- Nausea, lack of appetite, lethargy, epigastric pain, necrosis of liver cells.
- Severe swelling of the tissues and mucous membranes of the respiratory system, profuse rash all over the body, redness of the skin.
- Significant decrease in the total amount of urine excreted per day, the development of acute renal failure.
- Development of glycemic coma, decrease in blood sugar levels.
- Blue nasolabial triangle, pain in the heart area, development of dangerous thrombocytopenia.
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Interaction with other drugs
If a patient takes several drugs at the same time, this is fraught with various complications and deterioration in overall he alth. To avoid negative consequences, it is necessary to take into account the drug interaction of the Panadol suspension:
- The use of inhibitors of microsomal liver enzymes significantly increases the risks of hepatotoxic effects on the body.
- The combined use of Panadol and specific uricosuric drugs leads to a decrease in the positive therapeutic effect.
- "Colestyramine" can several times lower the rate of absorption of paracetamol by the mucous membrane.
The simultaneous use of Difenin, Phenytoin, Rifampicin, antiepileptic drugs or Carbamazepine is fraught with an increase in hydroxylated metabolites.
