Preparations for intestinal infections: sorbents, antibiotics, probiotics

drugs in intestinal infections help to cope withExpressed violations of the stool and eliminate signs of poisoning. The task of taking medications in this case is not only the elimination of microorganisms that caused the disorder, but also the normalization of the balance of fluid and electrolytes in the digestive tract, and the elimination of toxic substances. That is why first aid to the patient consists in the use of sorbents.

Tablets used for intestinal infections are prescribed by a physician, based on laboratory data, depending on the type of pathogen and associated pathology.

If the source of the disease is a viral infection, the gastroenterologist recommends drugs that have an antiviral effect. With bacterial etiology of intestinal problems, antibiotic therapy is mandatory.

Emergency aid for intestinal infection

Emergency care and immediate taking of tablets against intestinal infection is required in situations where there is defecation more than 8 times a day, while stools are liquid and in appearance may resemble a rice broth, and whenClearly traced signs of general intoxication of the body.

In this case, the following preparations should be taken from intestinal infection:

• Intravenous infusion of isotonic sodium chloride solution and glucose.
• Intramuscular injection of a lytic mixture consisting of 2 ml of Analgin, 2 ml of Papaverine and 1 ml of Diphenhydramine.
• The use of adsorbents and preparations for rehydration in powder form, such as Regidron and Polysorb. This will protect the body from dehydration, and the adsorbent will help to remove toxins.

In severe cases, hospitalization is required in the infectious disease department of the hospital. Medicines for children, appointed from intestinal infection, must meet the safety requirements, quickly replenish the water-electrolyte balance, and also remove the products of the vital activity of the pathogenic microflora from the body in a short time after their administration.

Groups of drugs

To completely get rid of the intestinal infection, and also to restore strength and return to normal life, you will have to drink drugs of different groups, whose action is aimed at eliminating the pathogen and rehydration of cells.

Sorbents

All kinds of food poisoning are accompanied by the accumulation of a large number of toxic substances, so you need drugs that will remove them from the digestive tract. Sorbents when ingested into the intestine absorb toxins into themselves and remove them in an unchanged form, not allowing absorption.

Preparations of this group :

1. Activated charcoal is the most famous drug that can be found in every home medicine cabinet. To obtain the desired effect, you should drink a few tablets that allow you to get rid of the infection in the gastrointestinal tract, at the rate of 1 tablet per 10 kg of body weight.
2. Polysorbent is a strong adsorbent that is administered during intoxication.
3. Smecta - in addition to the fact that the remedy rescues from diarrhea, it covers the protective shell of the stomach wall and removes pain in the abdomen.
4. Enterosgel, a paste reminiscent of the consistency, quickly removes bacteria and their toxins, and also helps with discomfort in the intestines.

Antibiotics

Often the infection is caused by E. coli or other bacteria, so the diet and taking antibacterial medication can not be avoided.

Doctors recommend taking the following antibacterial drugs for intestinal infections:

• fluoroquinolones - Norfloxacin, Ciprofloxacin, Ofloxacin;
• tetracyclines - doxycycline;
• amphenicols - Levomycetin;
• Metronidazole.

Therapy with antibiotics is allowed only according to the doctor's prescription for the detection of a particular type of pathogen, as these are serious enough drugs, the abuse of which can lead to resistance of microflora. Read more about the treatment of intestinal infections with antibiotics →

antidiarrheal

intestinal infections the most common symptom is diarrhea, so stool normalization needed medications, which have antidiarrheal effect:

1. loperamide.
2. Phthalazole.
3. Trimebudin.
4. Nifuroxazide.
5. Stopped.

These medications have a positive effect on the digestive tract, reducing its tone and peristaltic contractions. The drugs are administered orally and drunk after each act of defecation in a dosage of 2 to 4 mg, with an average daily amount should not exceed 16 mg.

Painkillers

When an intestinal infection occurs in adults, severe pain syndrome is quite common, which can be removed with the help of tablets. You should take analgesics only after you have been examined by a doctor, since drugs can change the clinical picture of the disease, which will make diagnosis more difficult.

To alleviate his condition, you can take medicines such as:

• No-spa.
• Spasmaton.
• Benalgin.

Enzymatic preparations

Once signs of acute intestinal infection eliminated, doctors are advised to take drugs for treatments which accelerate the digestive processes:

• Pancreatin.
• Mezim forte.
• Micraam.

Overview of popular medicines

There are many tablets and solutions from intestinal infections, but they should only be prescribed by a doctor. The independent choice of a medicine often turns out to be wrong, which leads to aggravation of the disease.

Medicines for infection in the intestine, selected independently, can lead to the following consequences:

1. Long-term use of sorbents can lead to constipation, which will complicate the elimination of toxins from the body.
2. Treatment with preparations containing enzymes makes it difficult to establish the cause of the intestinal infection, as well as its diagnosis.
3. Uncontrolled antibiotic therapy is often ineffective due to the fact that the causative agent that led to intoxication has not been established.

Preparations for children

When a disease occurs in children under the age of three, only a doctor is entitled to prescribe medications for intestinal infection, and treatment should be carried out permanently for 24-hour monitoring of the child's condition. In addition to the standard infusion therapy, the following medicines can be given to children:

• The stoppion is a cure for intestinal infection of the nitrofuran series that can be used for children from two months of age. Issued in the form of a solution, taken one measure spoon twice a day.
• Enterosgel is based on polymethylsiloxane, which has an adsorbing effect. Produced in tubes, has a pasty consistency. The drug is excreted from the body in an unchanged form, and is also not absorbed, so it can be taken by pregnant women and infants.
• Smecta - the active substance is a smectite, which is allowed to apply to children from the first days of life. The drug has a powdery form and is dispensed in batches. Babies up to a year should drink no more than one dose of medication per day, in older age 2-3 times a day for 1 packet of Smekty is allowed.

Preparations for adults

Drugs that should be taken with the development of an intestinal infection in adults, should not only eliminate the pathogen, but also to prevent dehydration. That is why drugs for intestinal infection must be taken in a complex.

Usually assigned:

1. Gastrolit - refers to a group of drugs that restore the balance of electrolytes. The medication also has an astringent effect and removes the symptoms of diarrhea.
2. Loperamide is an antidiarrheal agent, available in capsules. To eliminate diarrhea it is necessary to drink 2 tablets in the first day, then after each act of defecation, take 1 dose of this medicine from intestinal infection in adults.
3. Ersefuril is based on nifuroxazide, which is an intestinal antiseptic. It takes 4 capsules a day, divided into 3-4 applications.
4. Linex is a combined probiotic that normalizes the intestinal microflora and relieves diarrhea. Treatment course.
5. Furazolidone is an antimicrobial agent used in dysentery and toxic gastrointestinal infections.

How to restore the intestinal flora

Often after treatment with drugs against intestinal infection in adults and children, there is a dysbacteriosis, which probiotics help to cope with.

This group of drugs includes drugs that help fight intestinal infection by filling the digestive tract with a useful microflora: lactobacilli, bifidobacteria and enterococci.

Kinds of probiotics:

• 1 generation - one-component medicines that contain one kind of microorganisms( Lactobacterin, Bifidumbacterin);
• 2nd generation - self-eliminating antagonists( Bactisubtil, Sporobacterin)
• 3rd generation - multicomponent probiotics( Acipol, Linex, Acilact);
• 4th generation - living representatives of natural microflora, placed on a sorbent( Floritin Forte, Probifor).

Drugs from this group are used in the complex therapy of intestinal infection in children and adults.

Symptoms of an infectious disease in the intestines are hyperthermia, severe diarrhea, general weakness, stomach pain and signs of intoxication. Intestinal infection is well treatable in adults and children with timely access to a doctor and when taking appropriate medications.

In order not to harm yourself, you should not self-medicate, as severe dehydration can lead to serious complications.

Author: Violeta Kudryavtseva, MD,
specially for Moizhivot.ru

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