Children's Amiksin

Antibiotics are widely used to fight bacterial infections, but they cannot cure a viral disease. In the fight against viral infection instead of antibacterial agents should be used drugs that act on viruses. One of them is the domestic drug Amiksin. Is it possible to give children such medicine and how to take this antiviral agent for influenza and other infections correctly?

The tablets themselves are round, convex on both sides, and their shell is orange. If you break the tablet, inside it will also be orange, but sometimes white inclusions are seen in its contents. One pack may contain 6 or 10 tablets. Also on sale there are jars with 20 tablets of Amiksin.

The main ingredient in Amiksin is a substance called tilorone. It can be contained in two different dosages - 60 mg and 125 mg. Primellose, MCC, Ca stearate, Kollidon-30 and potato starch were added to the core of the tablets along with tilorone. The shell of the preparation was made from macrogol-4000, polysorbate 80, hypromellose, titanium dioxide and yellow dyes.

Once in the human body, tilaran is rapidly absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract, after which it is transferred with plasma proteins into different tissues. Such a compound stimulates the intestinal epithelium, T-lymphocytes, granulocytes, and also hepatocytes, as a result of which an active production of alpha, gamma and beta interferon begins in such cells.

First, interferon begins to be produced in the intestine, then in the liver and in the blood. The maximum effect on the synthesis of interferon is observed 2-24 hours after taking Amixin.

The drug affects the bone marrow, activating stem cells in it. Also, tilorone has an effect on the production of immunoglobulins types A, G and M. The drug has a beneficial effect on humoral immunity and stimulates the appearance of antibodies. In addition, treatment with Amixin helps to restore the normal proportion of T-suppressors and T-helpers, with the result that immunosuppression decreases.

The antiviral effect of tilorone is due to the inhibition of the production of proteins in virus-infected cells, which is why the reproduction of the pathogen is inhibited. The drug acts on viruses SARS, hepatoviruses, cytomegaloviruses, influenza viruses of various types and other pathogens.

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The reason to appoint Amiksin can be:

• Acute viral respiratory disease. The drug is often prescribed for colds, the cause of which was one of the causative agents of ARVI.
• Flu. The drug is effective against influenza viruses, so it is acceptable to prescribe it in the midst of the disease, and to prevent it, for example, if a family member is sick.
• Chlamydia infection for example, damage to the urinary organs or pharyngitis caused by such pathogens.
• A disease triggered by the herpes simplex virus. Amiksin helps with herpes fever, stomatitis, eczema and other herpetic diseases, as well as with chickenpox.
• Acute hepatitis. The drug is recommended for both hepatitis A and the acute stage of hepatitis B and C.
• Cytomegalovirus infection. Amiksin effective against such a pathogen and is used in the treatment of cytomegalovirus infection.
• Encephalomyelitis, which has a viral or infectious-allergic nature. Amixin with this disease is prescribed as part of a comprehensive treatment.
• Tuberculosis. For a comprehensive fight against this infection, Amixin can be administered together with anti-tuberculosis drugs.

Instructions for use of Amixin for children contains information that this medicine does not give up to 7 years. If the child is older, for example, at the age of 9 years or 11 years, he can safely give this drug. The reason to appoint Amiksin in childhood is often ARVI or flu. In this case, the drug is used for therapeutic purposes and as a prophylactic agent.

Amixin treatment is not performed if the young patient has an allergy to this medicine. To check whether the child is intolerant, after the first pill, you should carefully monitor its condition. If you find any signs of allergy, for example, the appearance of pruritus, the medicine is canceled.

Also, do not take Amiksin in the backlog in physical or mental development. Adults are not advised to give the drug when breastfeeding (the drug penetrates the milk of a woman) and pregnancy (the drug will act on the fetus).

See Dr. Komarovsky’s program on antiviral drugs, which include Amexin:

Reception of Amixin can cause various dyspeptic manifestations, for example, a feeling of fullness in the stomach, abdominal discomfort, bloating in the epigastric region, or nausea. Also, some children react to such medication with allergies and short-term chills.

Before starting treatment of the child Amiksin, be sure to consult with the pediatrician. Used in pediatric Amixin dosage is 60 mg of active ingredient. Tablets with such a dose are prescribed for acute respiratory viral infections or for influenza according to this scheme:

1. A single dose is 60 mg.
2. The drug is drunk once a day.
3. Drinking a pill should be after a meal.
4. It should be swallowed whole, because damage to the film shell will worsen the healing properties of Amixin.
5. The medicine is given for two days in a row, and then every other day, that is, Amixin is used on the first day, on the second day, and then on the fourth day of treatment.
6. The course dose is 180 mg, which corresponds to three tablets.

This regimen is used for diseases that occur without complications. If a small patient has any complication of influenza or another viral infection, the course dose is increased to 4 tablets (240 mg of active ingredient), and the drug is given additionally on the sixth day of treatment. It turns out that with a complicated form of ARVI, the child should be given 1 tablet on the first day, then on the second day, then on the fourth day and another tablet on the 6th day from the start of therapy.

Information about the negative effects of Amixin on the patient's body, if the drug is taken in too high a dose, is missing.

Amixin is acceptable to combine with any other drugs used in the treatment of viral infections. This drug is also well compatible with antibacterial agents. If it is given along with the preparations of metronidazole, then their toxic effect on the liver decreases.

A drug approved for children (with an active ingredient concentration of 60 mg) is sold only by prescription, and for a medicine used by adults (with a tiloron content of 125 mg per tablet), a doctor's prescription is not needed. The average price of a package with 10 tablets of 60 mg of the active substance is 550-600 rubles.

To Amiksin in the process of storage has not lost its healing properties, the drug should be kept away from sunlight and excessive moisture. The storage temperature of the drug should not be higher than + 30 ° C, and the place where the packaging of tablets should lie should not be easily accessible to children. Use the medicine if it has expired, which is 3 years, can not.

About the use of Amixin in the treatment of children respond differently. According to doctors, this medicine helps to prevent the flu or ARVI, and also normalizes the patient's immune system. However, some experts refer Amiksin to drugs with poor efficacy or unproven action.

Reviews of parents whose children have been prescribed Amiksin are also ambiguous, which experts associate with the individual characteristics of children, since the state of the immune system is different for each small patient.

Many mothers are confused by the fact that the drug is banned in Europe, and is only distributed in the countries of the former USSR. Many people call the drawback of the drug a rather high cost of tablets. There are cases of allergy to Amixin, as well as problems with digestion, headaches, chills, or nasal congestion after taking such medication.

In positive reviews about Amiksin parents talk about a fairly rapid effect of the drug. They note that the remedy helped with severe symptoms of ARVI and flu. Also considered a plus the prevalence of Amixin in pharmacies, because you can buy this medicine freely throughout the country.

Replacing Amiksinu can be drugs with the same active substance. These include:

• Lavamax. Such antiviral medication based on tilorone is produced in coated tablets. Each tablet contains 125 mg of the active ingredient.
• Tiloron. Such a Russian drug is represented by capsules of 125 mg of tilorone, as well as tablets in a film shell, which contain 60 mg or 125 mg of the active substance.
• Tiloram or tilaxine. These analogs of Amixin are available only in tablets, inside of which there is 125 mg of tilorone.

As an alternative to tilorone, other antiviral agents may be used, for example:

• Ingavirin. Such an anti-viral and anti-inflammatory activity is noted in this medicine, therefore it is prescribed for influenza, adenoviral infection, parainfluenza and other acute respiratory viral infections. The drug is represented by capsules. The tool is allowed to be used for treatment from the age of 13, and for prophylaxis from the age of 18.

• Kagocel. This antiviral drug can activate the production of interferon. He is discharged when infected with influenza viruses, herpes and other infections. The drug is available in tablets and can be used in the treatment of SARS in children who have turned 3 years old. Also, this medication can be used to prevent flu in children over three years old, for example, when they visit a children's team at 4 years old or at 5 years old.

• Arbidol. Such an immunostimulating drug is prescribed for acute respiratory viral infections, influenza, rotavirus and other infections. It is available in capsules and tablets in the shell, as well as in the powder from which the suspension is prepared. The drug can be used in a dosage of 50 mg from 3 years, and in a dose of 100 mg of the active substance - from 6 years.

• Orvirem. This medicine on the basis of rimantadine is available in syrup for children. The drug is given with the flu and other acute respiratory infections children older than a year. The drug can also be used to prevent viral diseases in children who are already 1 year old, for example, if a child is 2 years old and an adult living with him in the same house has got the flu.

• Ergoferon. This antiviral medication has anti-inflammatory activity and is permitted from 6 months of age. It is produced in lozenges, which dissolve in water for young children. For children over three years old, Erhoferon is released in the form of a solution, which is taken orally.