Afobazol children

When anxiety, fears, stress, memory deterioration and other problems with the nervous system are prescribed drugs that affect brain activity. Afobazole is one of the most popular medicines for adult patients. But is it allowed to give such a drug to a child or is it better to refuse treatment with this agent, giving preference to an analog?

Afobazole is produced in the form of tablets, presented in two dosages - with 5 mg of the active substance and with 10 mg of the active ingredient. These are flat white tablets, packaged in 60 pieces in one pack.

The active substance in the tablets Afobazol is the compound fabomotisol. It is supplemented with potato starch, povidone, MCC, magnesium stearate and lactose.

A drug is a group of anxiolytic drugs prescribed to eliminate anxiety. The drug affects the cells in the brain, protecting them and restoring them. He has a slight stimulating effect.

When you take Afobazol anxiety decreases, and the patient becomes less tense and less irritable. The drug helps to get rid of shyness, bad presentiments, insomnia, anxiety, tearfulness.

The use of Afobazole has a positive effect on mental work and contributes to the adaptation to stress. This medicine helps with memory loss and concentration problems. The tool especially effectively helps people with emotional instability, increased vulnerability and suspiciousness.

The reasons for the appointment of Afobazol are:

• Anxiety disorders.
• Severe stress.
• Neurasthenia
• Sleep disturbance
• Somatic diseases, for example, arrhythmia, bronchial asthma, oncopathology, lupus and other diseases.

Instructions for use of Afobazol in contraindications indicate children's age up to 18 years. This is due to the lack of studies on the use of such drugs by children. Doctors may prescribe such a drug at children's age, for example, at the age of 12 or at the age of 10, however, at the same time, they take responsibility for possible negative reactions to the treatment on themselves. This explains why you can not give Afobazol child on their own initiative.

Adults should not take this medication:

• When carrying a child. Planning a pregnancy is recommended not earlier than 2 weeks after the end of the intake of Afobazol, so that the remedy completely leaves the body of the expectant mother.
• When breastfeeding. The drug enters the breast milk, so it can get into the body of the baby.

Taking Afobazole may cause an allergic reaction, such as pruritus. Occasionally the patient has headaches while using this drug.They, as a rule, pass quickly enough themselves, therefore, with a headache, the remedy is not canceled.

The drug does not provoke drowsiness or weakness in the muscles, and does not impair memory and concentration. When the treatment is completed, the syndrome of "cancellation" does not happen, that is, addiction to Afobazol does not develop.

Tablets are taken after meals with water. The dosage for adults is 10 mg of the active substance per dose, 30 mg per day. The dose for the child, if he is required to give Afobazol, the doctor selects individually.

The tool can be assigned for a long time. The standard duration of treatment with Afobazol is two to four weeks. If required, therapy can be continued for up to 3 months.

The effect of treatment with Afobazol does not appear immediately. The effect of the drug begins to appear from the fifth to seventh day of admission, and the maximum effectiveness of the drug shows the fourth week of therapy. After the application of Afobazol, the effect of the agent is observed for another 1-2 weeks.

If you appoint Afobazol with carbamazepine, there will be a more pronounced anticonvulsant action. Diazepam administered with Afobazole will have a stronger anxiolytic effect.

You do not need a prescription to purchase Afobazol at the pharmacy, but specialist advice is highly desirable. The average price of a package of such medicine is 360 rubles.

Keep the Afobazole package in a dry place where the air temperature will be less than 25 degrees Celsius. Children should not have free access to such medication. In addition, the drug should not be stored for more than three years from the date of its production.

Adults who took Afobazol themselves, confirm that this medicine acts very quickly, eliminates anxiety and does not cause drowsiness. However, most parents do not consider a good effect in adult patients a reason to give Afobazol to children. According to the reviews of most mothers, they are wary of such a medicine and prefer to give their children drugs with a similar effect, but allowed in childhood.

Reviews doctor about Afobazol you can see in the next video.

To replace Afobazol in the treatment of children, drugs with the same therapeutic effect are suitable, among which can be called:

• Anvifen. Such aminophenylbutyric acid-based agent is prescribed from the age of three. It comes in capsules.
• Noofen. This drug, which also contains aminophenylbutyric acid and is available in capsules, is prescribed by doctors to children over 8 years old.
• Children's tenoten. At the heart of this drug, which is a lozenge, are special antibodies. The tool is assigned to children 3 years and older.
• Phenibut. This drug can be used in the treatment of children older than two years.
• Adaptol. Like Afobazol, this drug is in contraindications to the age of 18 years, but if necessary, can be administered to children from 9-10 years of age. The drug contains mebicar and is produced in tablets.
• Grandaxine. These pills containing tofizopam are discharged from the age of 14.