Milgamma children: instructions for use

In diseases of the nervous system for adults, it is often prescribed a drug based on vitamins of group B - called Milgamma. Instructions for use is quite simple. Not everyone knows whether this medicine can be used for children.

The drug is represented by an injection form - dark glass ampoules containing 2 ml of a red clear solution. In one package is from 5 to 25 ampoules. Their active ingredients are:

• Vitamin B1 in the form of thiamine hydrochloride - at a dose of 50 mg / 1 ml.
• Vitamin B6 in the form of pyridoxine hydrochloride - at a dose of 50 mg / 1 ml.
• Vitamin B12 in the form of cyanocobalamin - at a dose of 500 µg / 1 ml.
• Lidocaine as lidocaine hydrochloride in a dose of 10 mg / 1 ml.

Additionally, the solution contains hydroxide and polyphosphate Na, potassium hexacyanoferrate, sterile water and benzyl alcohol.

A drug called "Milgamma Compositum" is produced separately. These are white-coated tablets containing only two B-B1 vitamins in the form of benfotiamine and B6 in the form of pyridoxine hydrochloride. Each of the ingredients is presented in one tablet with a dosage of 100 mg. Additionally, the drug has sucrose, povidone, wax, cornstarch and other compounds. One pack contains 30 or 60 tablets.

Vitamin compounds in the composition of "Milgamma" have the following properties:

• Thanks to thiamine, carbohydrate metabolism is improved, which is essential for supporting nerve tissue.
• Pyridoxine is important for the exchange of amino acids, the synthesis of hemoglobin and the formation of various active compounds (they are called mediators).
• Vitamin B12 has an antianemic effect - due to the activation of the synthesis of nucleic acids, methionine, choline and other substances. This vitamin is actively involved in a variety of metabolic processes within cells and is characterized by analgesic effect.

The presence of lidocaine in the solution provides an additional analgesic effect.

Milgamma is applied:

• with neuritis;
• with radiculitis;
• with a lesion of the facial nerve;
• with myalgia;
• with shingles;
• with neuralgia;
• with polyneuropathy;
• with hypovitaminosis.

Annotation to both Compositum tablets and the Milgamma injection form includes information that such medicines are contraindicated in patients under 16 years of age.

This is associated with very high dosages of vitamins, and with insufficient study of the effects of drugs on children.

The drug is not used not only in childhood, but also in case of intolerance to any of its ingredients, as well as for serious heart pathologies in which conduction is disturbed and heart failure occurs.

Treatment with Milgamma can cause rashes, nausea, bradycardia, breathing problems, itchy skin, sweating, seizures, and other symptoms. Usually they occur due to the introduction of a solution into the muscle too quickly or when prescribing a drug at a high dose.

The form of the drug, its dosage and mode of administration is determined by a specialist. Usually, in case of severe pain, they begin treatment with intramuscular injections, and then switch to pills.The duration of therapy is usually one month.

For how to use the drug "Milgamma", see the following video.

To purchase Milgamma in a pharmacy, you need a prescription from a doctor. The average price of 5 ampoules is 240-270 rubles. Storage of the solution is recommended at a temperature not higher than +15 degrees. The shelf life of this form of medication is 2 years.

"Compositum" is sold in pharmacies as a non-prescription drug. The cost of a package of 30 tablets is about 650 rubles. Shelf life is 5 years, and it is recommended to keep such medicine at room temperature, out of the reach of a small child.

The same composition of the solution for injection "Combilipen", Tablets" Neuromultivit "and the drug" Neyrobion ", produced in tablets and ampoules. However, these medicines are also contraindicated in childhood. If you need to assign a source of vitamins of group B to the child, the doctor will recommend one of the multivitamin complexes, for example:

• Vitamins "Multi-tabs Junior" (assigned to children 4-11 years old) and "Baby" (used for children 1-4 years old). Such chewable tablets are a source of 7 vitamins from group B.

• Pikovit Syrup 1+recommended for children older than 1 year. He gives babies five basic compounds from B-group vitamins. Older children are prescribed other complexes of the Pikovit line, in which thiamine, pyridoxine and other B vitamins are also present.

• Gel Kinder Biovital. As part of such a sweet multivitamin, there are six vitamins that belong to group B. The drug is used for children older than a year.

• Vitrum Junior Tablets. This is a complex for children 6 years and older, it contains all the major vitamins B.