Соталекс

Соталекс (beta adrenoblocker), released in the form of tablets and solution for injections. Sotaleks's tablet, according to the instruction, contains 80 or 160 mg of active ingredient of a sotalol of a hydrochloride and auxiliary elements - corn, gelated starch, magnesium stearate, calcium hydrophosphate, talc.

Pill is taken inside, it is desirable, before food, without chewing and washing down with a large amount of water. Sotaleks's dose is appointed by the doctor in an individual order, depending on disease severity and existence of sensitivity to drug. In the absence of instructions the recommended dose of medicine makes 40 mg / 2 once a day.

Pharmacological action of Sotaleks

Соталекс to which responses are objective renders anti-anginal, hypotensive, antiarrhytmic action on a human body, reducing the heart rate, sokratitelny ability of a myocardium, raises a tone of vessels and smooth muscles of bronchial tubes. Drug blocks beta2-adrenoceptors therefore the movement Ca2+ decreases, excitability and conductivity of cells is oppressed.

Indications to Sotaleks's use

Sotaleks's reception, according to the instruction, is shown to patients with symptomatic disturbances of a cordial rhythm (tachycardia), ventricular premature ventricular contraction, the arrhythmia caused by the excess circulation of catecholamines, supraventricular tachycardia differently called by Wolff-Parkinson-Whyte's syndrome. Соталекс it is successfully applied in the presence of paroxysmal ciliary arrhythmias of auricles, and also as the means causing maintenance of a sinoatrial rate is normal after an atrial flutter or stopping of blinking.

As show responses to Sotaleks, drug prevents emergence of heavy symptomatic disturbances of a cordial rhythm, performing their successful prevention.

Contraindications

The instruction to Sotaleks prohibits drug use to the people having chronic heart failure, arterial hypotension, sinuatrial blockade, bradycardia, a sick sinus syndrome, obliterating diseases of vessels, a metabolic acidosis, obstructive respiratory diseases, throat hypostasis, heavy allergic rhinitis.

Treatment by Sotaleks in the presence of not treated pheochromocytoma and hypersensitivity to drug components is also undesirable.

Side effects of Sotaleks

Responses to Sotaleks warn about possible side effects which can arise at careless use of drug. From cardiovascular system symptoms of heart failure, a sinus bradycardia, difficulty of conductivity of a myocardium, heavy AV blockade (are shown up to a cardiac standstill), a lowering of arterial pressure, in rare instances - a cold snap of the lower extremities, stethalgias. Also the nervous system suffers: weakness, increased fatigue, drowsiness, dizzinesses, sleep disorders are shown.

At Sotaleks's overdose can arise: the expressed bradycardia, a lowering of arterial pressure, unconscious states, spasms, a spasm of bronchial tubes. As treatment use a gastric lavage, introduction of 1-2 mg of drug of atropine, at insufficiency of these measures carry out installation of a temporary pacemaker.

Special instructions

In the instruction to Sotaleks it is said that it is undesirable to use drug at pregnancy and a lactation: the fruit can have a pre-natal arrest of development, the newborn child has a bradycardia, a breath zatrudnennost, arterial hypotonia. According to responses to Sotaleks, administration of drug along with meal, especially dairy products capable to reduce absorption of active ingredient is not recommended. With care treatment by Sotaleks is appointed at children's and advanced age, at long starvation, the patient suffering from the diabetes mellitus which recently transferred a myocardial infarction and also to patients with an impaired renal function.

Attention: the instruction to Sotaleks is submitted in the fact-finding purposes! Treatment by drug, and also its cancellation is performed only taking into account recommendations of the cardiologist.