Nootropil (Piracetam)

Product Description

Nootropil (piracetam) positively affects the processes of brain metabolism and circulation, stimulates redox processes, increases glucose utilization, improves regional blood flow in ischemic areas of the brain, increases the body's energy potential with the participation of ATP and adenylate cyclase.Optimization of energy processes contributes to an increase in the stability of the central nervous system to hypoxia and various toxic factors.Piracetam improves the integrative activity of the brain, promotes memory consolidation, improves learning processes.

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Indications and usage

The medicine is prescribed for cerebral atherosclerosis, vascular parkinsonism, other pathological processes with chronic cerebral vascular insufficiency with memory, attention, speech, dizziness, changes in cerebral circulation, comatose and subcomatous states as a result of brain injuries and intoxications.Applied with diseases of the nervous system with a decrease in intellectual functions and disorders of the emotional-volitional sphere.In psychiatric practice, they are used in neurotic and asthenoadamic depressive states with the advantage of signs of adynamia, asthenic, senesto-hypochondriacal disorders, ideator inhibition, with weaklyapatic defective conditions, with schizophrenia, in psycho-organic syndromes of various etiologies, senile and atrophic processes, and in complex therapy of mental diseases.Assign in a complex therapy of senile dementias, including Alzheimer's disease.In pediatrics, Piracetam is used for cerebrosthenic, encephalopathic disorders.

Pyracetam is used for emergency care for abstinent, pre-dilerious and delirious states with alcoholism, drug addiction.In chronic alcoholism, Piracetam is prescribed to reduce the phenomena of asthenia, intellectual-mnestic and other disorders of mental activity.The drug should be used in a viral neuroinfections to reduce ischemiaand hypoxia and brain.The antihypoxic effect of the drug should be taken into account in the complex therapy of myocardial infarction.

Mode of application

Intake, ina meal or on an empty stomach, with some liquid.

Symptomatic treatment of psycho-organic syndrome:2.4 - 4.8 grams per day in 2-3 doses.

Treatment of vertigo and associated disequilibrium:2.4 - 4.8 grams per day in 2-3 doses.

Treatment of cortical myoclonus:begin with a dose of 7.2 g per day, every 3-4 days increase the dose of 4.8 grams per day to a maximum dose of 24 grams per day in 2 -3 reception.Treatment continues throughout the period of the disease.Every 6 months, attempts should be made to reduce the dose or discontinue the drug, gradually reducing the dose by 1.2 g per day every 2 days.

The treatment of sickle-cell anemia:prophylactic daily dose of 160 mg / kg body weight, divided into 4 equal doses.

Dyslexia Treatment in Children:The recommended daily dosage for children aged 8 years and adolescents - 3.2 g, divided into 2 doses.

Contraindications

The use of piracetam is contraindicated in acute renal failure in children with diabetes and the presence in the anamnesis of indications of allergic reactions associated with the use of fruit juices, essences, etc.The medicine is not recommended for children under 1 year.

Side effects

Mental irritation, motor disinhibition, irritability, unbalance, decreased ability to concentrate, anxiety, sleep disturbances, gastralgia, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhea, decreased appetite, dizziness, headache, extrapyramidal disorders, convulsions, tremor, increased sexual activity, Worsening of the course of angina pectoris. Side effects are most often observed at doses above 5 g per day.