"Mydocalm" - a medicine that is a muscle relaxantcentral action. It is made in the form of tablets coated with a white film coating. Their shape is round, biconvex, the smell is a weak specific. On one side there is an engraving "50" or "150" (depending on the mass of the tablet). In addition, the sale of the solution "Mydocalm" (the medicine is colorless or slightly greenish, there are no mechanical inclusions).
The active substance istolperisone. Additional components (in tablets) are citric acid monohydrate, anhydrous colloidal silicone, corn starch, stearin, titanium dioxide, talc, lactose monohydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose 2910 and macrogol 6000.
The medicament is distributed in blisters of ten pieces (there are three of them in one carton box).
The main components of the solution for injection are represented by lidocaine and tolperisone, the auxiliary components are methyl paraben, diethylene glycol monoethyl ether and purified water.
In one carton box - five vials of one milliliter each.
"Mydocalm" - a medicine that produces a membrane stabilizing and local anesthetic effect. It provides a decrease in pain sensitivity of nerve endings (peripheral).
The drug is characterized by rapid absorption fromgastrointestinal tract. The maximum content in the blood is noted in thirty to sixty minutes. "Mydocalm" - a drug whose bioavailability is twenty percent. The drug is excreted through the kidneys (99%).
Considered pharmaceutical agentappointed for the treatment of increased muscle tone, of a pathological nature, as well as for the treatment of spasms of striated muscles, developing due to organic diseases of the central nervous system (lesions of the pyramidal tract, multiple sclerosis, stroke, myelopathy, encephalomyelitis). In addition, this drug is able to eliminate muscle spasms and increased tone that accompanies such diseases of the musculoskeletal system as arthrosis of large joints, spondylarthrosis, spondylosis, lumbar and cervical syndrome.
"Mydocalm" - a drug widely used inrehabilitation therapy after trauma and orthopedic surgery. It also has a specific pediatric indication - infantile brain paralysis (Little's disease) and other encephalopathies accompanied by dystonia of the muscles (in these cases only pills are prescribed).
The drug "Mydocalm". Contraindications
This tool is not prescribed for the patient's hypersensitivity, myasthenia, in children under twelve months (both solution and tablets).
Instructions for use and dosing
The drug is administered orally after a meal.Chew it is not required, you can drink a small amount of liquid. The initial dose for adult patients is fifty milligrams two to three times a day. For babies from one year to six - five mg per kilogram (3 times a day), from seven to fourteen - from two to four mg / kg (the frequency of administration is the same). If the patient is unable to swallow the pill, it can be crushed and take the resulting powder with boiled water.
The drug "Mydocalm". The course of treatment with a solution
The drug in this form is administered intravenously (slowly) or intramuscularly. In the first case - one hundred milligrams 1 time per day, in the second - the same amount twice a day.
The drug can cause muscle weakness, headache, lower blood pressure, nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort.
