Yodomarin

Yodomarin – drug the compensating iodine deficiency at prevention and treatment of diseases of a thyroid gland.

Form of release and structure

Dosage form – tablets Yodomarin 100 or Yodomarin 200: white or almost white color, have the round ploskotsilindrichesky form, with a facet and dividing risky on one of the parties (on 0,1 mg – on 50 or 100 pieces in bottles, in a cardboard pack 1 bottle; on 0,2 mg – on 25 pieces in blisters, in a cardboard pack 2 or 4 blisters).

Active agent – potassium iodide, in 1 tablet – 0,131 or 0,262 mg that corresponds to the maintenance of 0,1 or 0,2 mg of iodine.

Auxiliary components: lactoses monohydrate, silicon dioxide colloid, gelatin, magnesium carbonate the main, magnesium stearate, sodium carboxymethylstarch (type A).

Indications to use

Use of drug is shown at prevention and treatment of diseases of a thyroid gland:

• Therapy of the diffusion euthyroid craw which developed against the background of an iodine deficiency in an organism of patients aged up to 40 years including children and teenagers;
• Prevention of a local craw, especially at women during pregnancy and breastfeeding, at children and teenagers;
• Prevention of a recurrence of a pathological enlargement of the thyroid gland after end of a course of treatment hormones of a thyroid gland or after surgical removal of a craw.

Contraindications

• Toxic adenoma of a thyroid gland;
• Nodal craw (only for use in a dose more than 0,3 mg of iodine a day, not including the yodoterapiya period for blockade of function of a thyroid gland by preparation for surgery);
• Hyperthyroidism if its development is not connected with acute shortage of iodine;
• Herpetiform dermatitis of Dyuringa at patients of advanced age;
• Hypersensitivity to iodine.

It is necessary to avoid Yodomarin's appointment at treatment by a radioiodine, the diagnosed cancer of a thyroid gland or at suspicion on it.

Route of administration and dosage

Pill is taken inside after food and washed down with enough liquid. Children are recommended to give the drug which is previously dissolved in juice or milk.

The dose and the period of use of drug are appointed by the doctor on the basis of clinical indications.

The recommended dosing:

• Treatments of an euthyroid craw: patients up to 18 years, including newborn children: on 0,1-0,2 mg of iodine a day; from 18 to 40 years: on 0,3-0,5 mg of iodine a day. The treatment period for newborns usually makes 2-4 weeks, for patients 1 years – are more senior 6-12 months, and longer reception is in case of need possible;
• Prevention of a local craw: children up to 12 years, including newborns: on 0,05-0,1 mg of iodine a day; patients are more senior than 12 years: on 0,1-0,2 mg of iodine a day; women during pregnancy and breastfeeding: on 0,2 mg of iodine a day;
• Prevention of a recurrence of a craw: on 0,1-0,2 mg of iodine a day.

Preventive use of Yodomarin can last several years, and in the presence of clinical indications – all life.

Side effects

• From endocrine system: at reception of a daily dose more than 0,15 mg of iodine there can be a transition of the hidden hyperthyroidism to a clinical form; more than 0,3 mg – exist risk of development iodine - the induced thyrotoxicosis (probability of a disease higher at patients of advanced age, a long time having a craw, at pathology of a diffusion toxic or nodal craw);
• Allergic reactions: seldom – conjunctivitis, "iodic" rhinitis, bronchitis and other pathologies of an iodism, with characteristic signs of manifestation in the form of metal smack in a mouth, puffiness and inflammations of mucous membranes, "iodic" fever, "iodic" eels; in some cases – exfoliative dermatitis, a Quincke's edema.

Preventive use of Yodomarin, as a rule, does not cause side effects in patients of all age categories.

Special instructions

Use of iodine during pregnancy and breastfeeding should not exceed the recommended dose.

Drug does not exert impact on ability of the patient to control of vehicles and mechanisms, and also to performance of other potentially dangerous types of works.

Medicinal interaction

Before the beginning or during therapy of a hyperthyroidism it is recommended to avoid use of iodine in any form. Excess of iodine reduces, and its shortcoming increases action of thyreostatic means at treatment of a hyperthyroidism.

Thyreostatic drugs suppress transition of iodine in a thyroid gland in organic compound and can promote formation of a craw.

The hypothyroidism and developing of a craw can become an effect of a concomitant use of high doses of iodine with drugs of salts of lithium.

The combination of high doses of drug to kaliysberegayushchy diuretics can lead to a hyperpotassemia.

Terms and storage conditions

To store in the place protected from light at a temperature up to 25 °C. To protect from children.

Period of validity – 3 years.