The drug "Magnesium sulphate" is a medicine with a wide range of applications.
Therapeutic action
The effectiveness of the medicine "Magnesia sulfate"depends in many ways on the way it is used. So, with internal application, the drug has a choleretic effect and a laxative. The agent serves as an antidote for poisoning with heavy metal salts. Intramuscular and intravenous administration of the drug has a soothing, antispasmodic, anticonvulsant, antiarrhythmic, vasodilating, diuretic action. When parenteral use of the drug in high doses can occur tocolytic (used to prevent premature birth), curare-like (oppression of the neural muscular transmission), narcotic and hypnotic effect. Using the drug "Magnesium sulfate" (this is magnesium) can reduce the excitability of the center of breathing, blood pressure, strengthen the separation of urine.
Indications for use
Medication "Magnesia sulfate" in powder formused to prepare a solution or suspension that is taken internally with cholecystitis, constipation, cholangitis, discenzia. Before performing the sounding and diagnosis, the medicine is prescribed for cleansing the intestine. The injections are done by treating hypomagnesemia, arterial hypertension, and urinary retention. In addition, the solution is administered with gestosis or seizures, the threat of premature birth, epileptic syndrome, eclampsia, encephalopathy. In any form, the drug is effective in poisoning with mercury, tetraethyl lead, arsenic, heavy metals.
Medication "Magnesia sulfate": contraindications
Do not administer the drug orallyhypermagnesemia, dehydration, appendicitis, obstruction, rectal bleeding. No injections with pronounced bradycardia, arterial hypotension, oppression of the respiratory center, 2 hours before the birth. Do not make appointments with kidney failure and hypersensitivity.
Medication "Magnesia sulfate": side effects
Use of the drug may cause suchreactions like dizziness, vomiting, thirst, flatulence, nausea, diarrhea, exacerbation of the ailments of the digestive organs. In some cases, there is a violation of the electrolyte balance, manifested in the occurrence of seizures, confusion, arrhythmia, fatigue, asthenia.
The preparation "Magnesia sulfate": instruction
Before internal reception of a powder it is requireddilute in 100 ml of slightly warmed water. To get the laxative effect, it's enough to use the contents of one sachet. For children, the amount of medicine is calculated from their age (each year - one gram). To obtain choleretic action, a solution (20%) is drunk three times a day for 15 ml. The injections are done slowly by injecting the drug (in three minutes not more than 3 ml). In this case, the injections are repeated 1-2 times a day, the duration of therapy is 2-3 weeks. To cleanse the metal salts, the drug is used intravenously for 5-10 dice.