Salamol

Salamol – the drug which is applied to removal of bronchospasms.

Pharmacological action

Salamol influences receptors of bronchial tubes, blood vessels, a myometrium.

Active ingredient of Salamol – salbutamol which stops and prevents emergence of spasms in bronchial tubes, increases the capacity of lungs, removes resistance in respiratory tracts.

Salamol's action remains within three hours after its use.

Release form

Salamol release in the form of an aerosol.

Indications to Salamol's use

Drug is appointed to patients with bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema of lungs, a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – for prevention and a stop of attacks.

Route of administration

To children after 12 l. and adults for a stop of an attack need to make 1-2 injections of-100-200 mkg of salbutamol.

For prevention of attacks at asthma proceeding in an easy stage do 1-8 injections a day (on 1-2 doses for once). At moderately severe asthma apply Salamol in the same dosage, but supplement him with other drugs against asthma.

If attacks of asthma arise at an exercise stress, for their prevention it is recommended for half an hour to loading to inject 1-2 doses of Salamol.

Salamol is used and in pediatrics – children are 2-12 years old at the beginning of an attack of bronchial asthma or for the prevention of the asthmatic attack arising at an exercise stress or under the influence of allergen inject 100-200 mkg of drug (1-2 doses).

Daily dose of Salamol – 800 mkg (8 doses).

The inhaler is recommended to clean periodically – not less once a week. For this purpose the barrel is taken out from a plastic case, rinse a cap and a case with warm water, well dried up without use of heating devices. It is impossible to dip a cylinder into water.

It is necessary to reconsider approach to treatment if the usual dose of Salamol becomes less effective, or time of its action will decrease.

Side effects

After Salamol's use the patient can feel trembling of fingers, a headache, nausea, uneasiness, stethalgias. Also at the patient sleeplessness can begin, redden the person, raise pressure.

Salamol can cause the cough, paradoxical bronchospasms caused by irritation of oral mucous.

Salbutamol can cause increase in a physical activity, excitement, arrhythmia in children.

The hypopotassemia which is caused in certain cases by salbutamol can constitute serious danger to the patient. The risk of its emergence amplifies at a drug combination to diuretics, glucocorticosteroids, xanthine derivatives.

Also emergence of allergic reactions is not excluded: bronchospasms, collapse, erythema, small tortoiseshell, hypostasis, congestion of a nose, hypotension.

Salamol's contraindications

Salamol the patients suffering from disturbances of a rhythm, heart diseases, a tachyarrhythmia, an aortal stenosis, a thyrotoxicosis, glaucoma, coronary heart disease, myocarditis, a dekompensirovanny diabetes mellitus, epilepsy, a liver/renal failure, hypersensitivity to salbutamol cannot appoint.

Salamol is contraindicated to children up to two years, to pregnant women.

Under observation patients are recommended to use means with hypertensia, chronic heart failure, a pheochromocytoma.

It is impossible to accept at the same time Salamol and non-selective beta adrenoblockers, for example, propranolol.

The salbutamol combination to theophylline and other xanthines, levodopa, means for carrying out inhalation anesthesia, tricyclic antidepressants, MAO inhibitors, anticholinergic drugs is undesirable.

Because of Salamol effect of drugs stimulators of a nervous system, side effect of cardiac glycosides, hormones of a thyroid gland can amplify.

Efficiency of nitrates and means from supertension under the influence of salbutamol decreases.