Picamilon pills 20mg, 30pcs

Composition

Active ingredient:

 Picamilon-20.00 mg

of N-nicotinoyl-gamma-aminobutyric acid

sodium salt

Auxiliary substances:

potato starch-18.70 mg,

corn starch-0.60 mg,

magnesium hydroxycarbonate (basic magnesium carbonate) – 15.53 mg,

sucrose-42.55 mg,

calcium stearate-1.00 mg,

talc-1.62 mg

Pharmacological action

Picamilon is a nootropic agent that dilates the blood vessels of the brain. It also has a tranquilizing, psychostimulating, antiplatelet and antioxidant effect.

Picamilon improves the functional state of the brain by normalizing tissue metabolism and influencing cerebral blood circulation (increases the volume and linear velocity of cerebral blood flow, reduces the resistance of brain vessels, suppresses platelet aggregation, improves microcirculation).

During the course, Picamilon increases physical and mental performance, reduces headaches, improves memory, normalizes sleep; helps to reduce or disappear feelings of anxiety, tension, fear; improves the condition of patients with motor and speech disorders.

Indications

• : Cerebrovascular insufficiency, asthenia, depressive disorders in the elderly.
• Conditions that are accompanied by anxiety, fear, increased irritability, and emotional lability. Asthenic conditions caused by various neuropsychiatric diseases.
• As part of a complex treatment – to stop acute alcohol intoxication; in chronic alcoholism – to reduce asthenic, asthenoneurotic, post-psychotic, pre-relapse conditions, as well as alcoholic encephalopathy.
• As part of complex therapy-migraine (prevention), TBI, neuroinfection.
• Improving the tolerance of physical and mental loads (for people who are in stressful and extreme conditions of activity; to restore the physical performance of athletes, to increase resistance to physical and mental loads).
• Open-angle glaucoma (to stabilize visual function).
• In urological practice (in children over 3 years of age and in adults with urinary disorders) to improve the adaptive function of the bladder (reduction of detrusor hypoxia).

Contraindications

Hypersensitivity, chronic renal failure, pregnancy, lactation, children under 3 years of age.

Side effects

Nausea, headache, dizziness, irritability, agitation, anxiety, allergic reactions (rash, itching).

Interaction

Shortens the effect of barbiturates, enhances the effect of narcotic analgesics.

How to take, course of use and dosage

Inside, regardless of food intake.

 For cerebrovascular diseases, a single dose is 20-50 mg 2-3 times a day, a daily dose is 60-150 mg. The course of treatment is 1-2 months. Repeat course – in 5-6 months.

Depressive states of late age – 40-200 mg per day in 2-3 doses, the optimal interval is 60-120 mg per day, for 1.5-3 months. As an antiasthenic and anxiolytic drug – 40-80 mg per day, if necessary – up to 200-300 mg per day, for 1-1.5 months.

For alcoholism during abstinence-100-150 mg per day, a short course of 6-7 days; for more persistent disorders outside abstinence-a daily dose of 40-60 mg for 4-5 weeks.

To stop acute uncomplicated intoxication with ethanol as part of complex therapy, a saturating dose of 5 mg/kg and a maintenance dose of 1.56 mg/kg/h are administered in a volume of 2.5 liters of infusion solution, for 4 hours, in the morning and in the evening.

To restore performance and under increased loads-60-80 mg per day for 1-1.5 months, for athletes in the same dose, for 2 weeks of the training period.

Overdose

Symptoms:  increased severity of adverse reactions.

Treatment:  symptomatic.

Composition

Tablet Form of production

Storage conditions

At a temperature not exceeding 25 °C.

Shelf life

3 years

Active ingredient

Nicotinoyl gamma-aminobutyric acid

Conditions of release from pharmacies

By prescription

Dosage form

Tablets

Description

For the elderly, For athletes, For adults as prescribed by a doctor, For children over 3 years of age, For Children as prescribed by a doctor

Indications

Alcoholism, Intense physical activity, Glaucoma, Cerebral circulation disorders, Migraines, Depression, Concussion and other traumatic brain injuries, Asthenia