Maxicold for children

For colds, flu, and ARVI, drugs with several components are often prescribed that affect many of the symptoms of such diseases. One of them can be called Maxicold.

Different forms of this medication are in demand in adults with fever, rhinitis, and other unpleasant symptoms. But can they be given to their children, what active ingredients do they include, in what dose are they used and how do they act on the children's organism?

The Maxicold line includes the following drugs:

• Suspension Maxicold for children. This product is a gray or gray-yellow viscous liquid with a strawberry or orange flavor. It is available in bottles of 100, 150 or 200 g. Ibuprofen is the active ingredient in this form of medicine. Its dosage of 5 milliliters of syrup is 100 mg. Additionally, the drug includes maltitol, sodium citrate, xanthan gum, glycerol and other compounds.

• Pills Maxicold. They are characterized by an oval shape and an orange-pink film membrane. One pack contains from 2 to 24 tablets. Their composition includes three active components at once - paracetamol (500 mg in each tablet), phenylephrine in the form of hydrochloride (10 mg per tablet) and ascorbic acid (in a dose of 30 mg in one tablet). Among the auxiliary compounds of this drug is hyprolosis, calcium phosphate, talc and other substances.

• Powder Maxicold. It is packaged in bags, which in one box contains 5, 10 or 50 pieces. After mixing with water, an orange, raspberry or lemon drink is formed from such a powder. The active ingredients of this form of Maxicold are identical to the drug in tablets. One bag weighing 5 g serves as a source of 750 mg of paracetamol and 60 mg of vitamin C, as well as 10 mg of phenylephrine. In addition to such substances in the composition of the powder is saccharin sodium, lactose, starch and other components.
• Spray Maxicold Lor. This medicine is produced in aluminum cans with a spray. Inside the cylinder there is a 0.2% solution of hexethidine, represented by a colorless liquid with menthol aroma. 100 ml of this solution contains 200 mg of the active ingredient. It is supplemented with eucalyptol, peppermint oil, ethanol, glycerin, levomenthol and some other substances.

• Maxicold Reno powder. Like ordinary Maxicold in powder form, such a product is sold in portion sachets, but it is packaged in 15 g. One box contains 5-10 sachets, and after mixing with water from their contents, a drink with a taste of lemon, raspberry or orange is obtained. The active components of such a powder are also represented by phenylephrine (10 mg per bag), vitamin C (50 mg in 1 bag) and paracetamol (325 mg per bag), but the fourth ingredient, pheniramine maleate, is added in a dose of 20 mg. . Additionally, the medicine contains citric acid, calcium phosphate, sugar, ethylcellulose, and other compounds.

Ibuprofen, received by a child from Maxicold suspension for children, inhibits the synthesis of substances that support the inflammatory reaction, cause hyperthermia and conduct pain impulses (prostaglandins).

The result of the use of such a drug will be a decrease in temperature during fever, an anesthetic effect and a decrease in the activity of inflammation.

The healing effects of pills or Maxicold powder provide the ingredients of such forms. Thanks to phenylephrine acting on alpha-1 adrenoreceptors, the drug narrows the small vessels, with the result that the hyperemia and swelling of the nasopharyngeal mucosa decreases, and it becomes easier to breathe through the nose.

Paracetamol in the composition of the drug fights heat and pain, and vitamin C increases resistance to infections and fills the body's need for ascorbic acid.

In hexatidine in the composition of Maxicold Lor has antiseptic properties. Such a substance not only affects the fungi and bacteria, but also envelops the mucous membrane, as well as anesthetizes a little. He also has an effect on influenza viruses, PC viruses and herpes viruses.

Maxicold for children is prescribed:

• As a febrifugewhen the child has a fever due to influenza, scarlet fever, vaccinations and other factors.
• As a drug to eliminate painwhich has moderate or low intensity (in the throat, in the ears, with bruises, in the teeth, etc.).

Maxicold tablets and powder form (including Reno sachets) are prescribed as a symptomatic remedy for nasal congestion, sneezing, headaches, fever and other symptoms of ARD.

Maxicold Law is in demand:

• When thrush in the mouth.
• With tonsillitis.
• With stomatitis (including with aphthous).
• When glossing.
• With pharyngitis.
• With periodontal disease.
• With gingivitis.
• After surgery in the throat or mouth.
• After injuries of the oral cavity or larynx.
• To eliminate bad breath

In babies of the first years of life, only Maxicold can be used for children. This suspension is prescribed from 3 months of age. The spray can be used in the treatment of children older than 3 years.

Maxicold tablets are allowed at 9 years of age, and powder forms (including Reno preparation) are prescribed for children 12 years and older due to the higher dosages of the active ingredients.

All forms of Maxicold should not be given in case of hypersensitivity to any ingredient of the prescribed medication, as well as in case of severe renal pathologies and serious liver diseases.

Maxicold tablets and powder form should not be given for hyperthyroidism, heart disease, increased blood pressure and angle-closure glaucoma. Spray Maxicold Lor is contraindicated in the atrophic form of pharyngitis.

While taking Maxicold inside, there are sometimes side effects such as abdominal discomfort, tachycardia, loose stools, a decrease in the number of blood cells, nausea, shortness of breath, kidney problems, skin rash and others. When they occur, you should immediately show the child to the doctor.

Treatment with the ENT agent occasionally provokes a burning sensation or an allergic reaction.

If the medication is accidentally swallowed, it can cause nausea, and too long treatment leads to disruption of the sense of taste.

• Suspension bottle for children must be shaken before use. Dispense such Maxicold with a syringe or spoon attached to a bottle. At one time a child is given 5 to 10 mg of active ingredient per 1 kg of its weight. Approximate dosages for children of different ages are noted in the abstract.The duration of suspension treatment at high temperature should be no more than three days, and for pain, no longer than 5 days.

• The tablet form is given either before meals or one to two hours after a meal. This medicine should be taken with plenty of water. A single dosage is usually 1 tablet. A child over 12 years old or with a weight above 40 kg is allowed to give and 2 tablets per reception. The interval of using this form of Maxicold is at least 4 hours, and the frequency of use is no more than 4 times a day.
• Powdered Maxicold before taking mixed with hot water. Crystals from one packet are poured into a mug, mixed and, after waiting for dissolution, they drink the drink hot. The maximum dosage of such drugs in children is 3 sachets per day. The drug is taken at intervals of 6 hours. To eliminate pain, both powder and tablets take only 1-5 days, and for fever 1-3 days.
• A child older than 6 years old, affected areas of the pharynx or mouth are treated after eating with Lohr spray twice a day for 5-7 days. During spraying a small patient must hold his breath. The dosage, frequency of treatment and the duration of treatment of children 3-6 years old prescribed by a doctor.

• One bag of Maxicold Reno dissolved in a glass of hot water and drink hot. If required, add sugar to the beverage. This tool is most often recommended to drink before bedtime, but it can be taken during the day. Repeated reception of the bag is allowed not earlier than 4 hours after the previous one, and you can take 3 bags a day. Treatment with this medicine for more than three days is not recommended.

An excessively large dose of infant suspension provokes nausea, tinnitus, abdominal pain, headache and other symptoms.

In case of overdose of the spray Lohr often vomiting occurs, therefore the drug is not absorbed and does not have a toxic effect.

Maxicold for children is not recommended to be combined with antacids, acetylsalicylic acid, methotrexate, corticosteroids and many other medicines. Their complete list is present in the instructions for the suspension.

Maxicold in powder and tablets is not prescribed with barbiturates, sedatives, paracetamol preparations, beta-blockers, diuretics, and other means, which are also noted in the annotation.

Any of the drugs of the Maxicold line is freely sold in pharmacies, since all of these drugs are non-prescription drugs.

The price depends on the form of the medicine, for example, for a bottle of suspension for children you need to pay an average of 150-160 rubles, spray costs about 200 rubles, and the average price of a pack with 10 Reno sachets is 180 rubles.

It is recommended to keep any Maxicold preparation at home at a temperature below 25 degrees Celsius in a dry place where sunlight does not get and small children cannot reach.

The shelf life of the tablet drug is 1 year, and all other forms of the drug - 2 years.

The replacement of Maxicold for children may be other ibuprofen preparations (for example, Nurofen or Ibufen) or paracetamol-based drugs.Instead of the spray Lor, you can use other antiseptics containing hexetidine, for example, Stomatidin or Hexoral.

Replacement of multicomponent powders and tablets Maxicold can serve Coldrex, Cold, Stopgripan, Rinzasip or another drug with the same exposure and similar composition.

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