Anvifen for children: instructions for use and reviews

Such nootropic and psychogogic drugs, like Anvifen, are used to normalize the work of the brain and improve the blood supply to its nerve cells. The tool is often prescribed for neurotic conditions, a decrease in mental activity and asthenia. It is popular for elderly patients, but is it possible to use Anvifen in childhood and how to give such a drug to a child?

Anvifen is available in capsules with different dosages of the active substance - 25 mg (with a white cap), 50 mg (with a blue cap), 125 mg (with a blue cap) and 250 mg (with a dark blue cap).

Inside the capsules are white or white-yellow granules. The body of the capsules is also white.

One pack can contain from 10 to 50 capsules.

The main component of Anvifen, ensuring its impact on patients, is represented by aminophenyl butyric acid. Such an active compound is supplemented with silica, magnesium stearate, hyprolose and lactose. The capsules themselves are made from gelatin, water and dyes.

The drug belongs to nootropic drugs, as well as drugs that help with anxiety and fears (anxiolytics). Anvifen affects the transmission of impulses associated with GABA, and therefore gives soothing impact. Also, the tool normalizes metabolic processes in brain cells and affects the activity of cerebral blood flow, improving it. In addition, Anvifen noted antioxidant and antiplatelet effect.

Taking this medicine helps to get rid of vasovegetative symptoms, for example, irritability, feeling of heaviness in the head, headache. Anvifen's course has a positive effect on performance, accuracy of reaction, memory and attention. The tool also helps to eliminate asthenia, but it does not cause any excitement or sedation. The use of Anvifen reduces anxiety and anxiety, helps to normalize sleep and reduce nervous tension.

The use of a drug like Anvifen is recommended:

• With anxiety and neurotic disorders.
• In asthenic condition.
• With enuresis.
• With stuttering.
• When nervous tick.
• For insomnia and other sleep disorders.
• With dizziness caused by problems with the vestibular apparatus.
• With Meniere's disease.
• With motion sickness syndrome (for prophylactic purposes).

The use of Anvifen in children is allowed from the age of three. Children of the first three years of life, especially babies under 1 year old, are not recommended to give such a drug. Appointment is possible only in situations where the benefits of the funds will exceed the risks of taking it.

Anvifen's prescription is not recommended in case of hypersensitivity to any component of such a drug. This drug should not be taken when carrying a child, as well as nursing mothers. If the patient has liver failure or ulcerative lesions of the digestive system, medication is given with caution.

Instructions for use Anvifen clarifies that the drug can cause nausea, drowsiness, dizziness or allergies.At the beginning of the use of medication, headaches are possible, but after a few days they pass. Also, in some children, the remedy increases anxiety, increases irritability and causes arousal.

Anvifen capsules are given after meals three times a day. They need to swallow, and then drink water. The duration of treatment is often two or three weeks.

The dose depends on the age of the child:

If the drug is prescribed to prevent motion sickness, Anvifen is taken in a dose of 250 to 500 mg once an hour before the trip or at the first negative manifestations of motion sickness.

If you give the child Anvifen in too large a dose, it will lead to:

• Severe sleepiness.
• Nausea or vomiting.
• Eosinophil elevation.
• Lower blood pressure.

A dosage of more than 7 grams can disrupt the function of the kidneys and cause fatty degeneration of the liver.

The administration of Anvifen along with sleeping pills, antipsychotics or narcotic analgesics will enhance the therapeutic effect of such medicines. The increased effect is also noted when using such a drug with drugs that help against epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.

To purchase Anvifen in a pharmacy, you must present a doctor's prescription. The average price of a pack of 20 capsules of a medicine with a dosage of 50 mg is 200-220 rubles.

From the production date, Anvifen has been valid for three years. It is necessary to store packaging with such medicine away from children and sunlight at a temperature of not more than + 25 ° C. If the shelf life of the drug is over, you can not use the tool.

Reviews of parents and doctors about the use of Anvifen mostly positive. According to doctors, such a tool is very effective in children with nervous tics, neurosis, problems with urination. Moms who gave Anvifen to their children point out that The drug helped reduce hyperactivity, normalize sleep, and reduce irritability.

Children suffer Anvifen mostly good, but side effects are not uncommon. Most often complain of headaches and drowsiness, which provokes the drug. Such symptoms pass only after drug withdrawal.

There are about Anvifen and negative reviews, in which parents complain of medication inefficiency. Someone returned the symptoms after stopping the treatment, and someone generally calls the drug a "dummy" and claims that he had no effect on the child.

Instead of Anvifen, a child can be given medicines with a similar effect, for example:

• Phenibut
• Mebikar
• Afobazole
• Adaptol
• Tenoten
• Noofen
• Grandaxine

Many of these drugs, though effective, but in contraindications include children up to 14 or 18 years old. However, in practice, neurologists often resort to such drugs, if there are indications for their use. It is unacceptable to give such means to a child without consulting a doctor, so you should contact a specialist to replace Anvifen with an analog.

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