Protection against dehydration - Regidron for diarrhea

Regidron with diarrhea can be taken from the first hours of the appearance of a watery stool.

The product does not treat diarrhea, but simply protects the body from dehydration, but is extremely useful for people suffering from acute diarrhea.

Especially necessary for children, the smaller the baby, the more he needs protection from dehydration. Regiodron can be taken by adults, if diarrhea continues for several days.

Assignment of Regdron

Regidron is a medicament for restoring acid-base balance in the body. During diarrhea and vomiting in the body, the concentration of sugars decreases, which leads to a change in the pH of the blood.

The blood reaction shifts to the acidic side. In medicine, this phenomenon is called acidosis.

It is extremely dangerous, as it increases the coagulability of blood and provokes fluctuations in blood pressure to critical digits. Heavy acidosis ends in shock, the patient falls into a coma and dies.

The cause of acidosis can not only be dehydration with diarrhea. This condition develops with oxygen starvation, a decrease in glucose levels in diabetics, respiratory failure and even without apparent causes.

Symptoms of increasing acidosis are nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, drowsiness, blocking, disturbance of the heart rhythm. Reception of Regidron with diarrhea protects from dehydration, and hence, from acidosis.

The drug can be used not only for diarrhea, but also for other conditions during which the body loses its moisture intensively, for example, with a strong sweating associated with physical or thermal stress.

The product has an alkaline reaction due to the content of sodium and potassium in it. From analogues, Regidron has a higher potassium content.

Substances that are part of Regidron:

• potassium chloride;
• sodium chloride;
• sodium citrate;
• grape sugar.

Glucose, which is part of the drug, retains salts and citrates in the blood, thus maintaining the chemical equilibrium of the blood.

The reduced content( in comparison with the analogues) in Rehydron sodium does not allow the development of hypernatremia, which is possible with intravenous administration of hypertonic solutions and taking other rehydration medications that contain a lot of sodium.

Regiodron is indicated in the following cases:

• diarrhea and vomiting;
• shift of acid-base balance of blood;
• extreme physical activity;
• heat stroke;
• intestinal infections with severe diarrhea: cholera, dysentery;
• alcohol intoxication.

Alcohol intoxication is accompanied by the formation of aldehydes - toxic products that appeared in the processing of the body by ethanol.

Aldehydes reduce blood pressure, which causes tachycardia. The consequence of violations of the heart rhythm are malfunctions in the work of the nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, which leads to vomiting and diarrhea, and as a result - to dehydration.

In addition, some alcoholic beverages, such as beer, act as a diuretic.

Receiving Regidron promotes the removal of aldehydes from the blood and normalization of blood pressure.

Potassium and sodium, included in the drug, restore the normal functioning of the nervous and cardiovascular system.

Carbohydrates are needed by the liver to neutralize toxins. Thus, as a result of taking Regidron, the state of health of a person who has suffered from alcohol intoxication is markedly improved.

Instructions for use

How to take Regidron correctly? Since Regidron is a full-fledged drug, it must be used according to the rules.

Instruction for use of the preparation recommends weighing before preparing a daily dose of the solution.

Weighing is needed to calculate the volume of solution that you need to drink per day. Dose fluid should be twice the daily loss of body weight.

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In other words, if the scales showed that during the diarrhea and vomiting lost 500 grams, then you need to drink 1 liter of solution. This rule must be observed when treating diarrhea in children and adults, since excessive rehydration is just as undesirable as dehydration.

Use slightly warm boiled water to prepare the solution. The drug is packaged in a portioned package. The contents of one sachet are dissolved in a liter of water.

Do not add sugar and other flavoring to the water so as not to reduce the effectiveness of the treatment.

The ready-made solution can be stored for no more than 24 hours, putting it in a cool place. Instructions for use recommend that when preparing a solution for children, reduce the dosage.

The temperature of the solution for treating a child with diarrhea should be equal to body temperature - in this case, the rehydration is faster.

To small children, the solution of Regidron is poured into the mouth with a teaspoon, infants can drip it on the tongue from a pipette or a syringe without a needle. The drug has no unpleasant taste, and the kids usually drink it without any problems.

If Regidron is not at hand and for some reason you can not buy it, then you can use a drug of similar effect to treat diarrhea:

• Hydrovit forte;
• Rheosolan;
• Trigydron.

There are situations when it is urgent to restore the level of fluid in the body, and it is not possible to buy medicines.

In case of emergency, you can make a solution for rehydration yourself, diluting salt, soda and sugar in boiled water.

Salt will become a source of sodium, soda - calcium, sugar - glucose. As a result, a solution resembling the properties of Regidron will be obtained.

To prepare it for a liter of water add 3 grams of salt, the same amount of soda and 25 grams of sugar. In the absence of weights, you can measure substances not by weight, but by volume, taking two tablespoons of sugar, according to 1/4 teaspoon of salt and soda.

The drawback of the homemade drug is the lack of potassium in the solution, an element that can hold water molecules in the blood.

Many home medicine kits have potassium chloride in ampoules. With the help of this popular and inexpensive pharmaceutical preparation, it is possible to produce a rehydration fluid, approximate in composition to Regidron.

Add half a teaspoon of salt, as much soda and potassium chloride as a liter of water. Then 4 tablespoons of sugar are poured into the same container.

The liquid is stirred until all the elements are completely dissolved and taken in the same way as Regidron.

Contraindications for the use of Regidron

Like any pharmaceutical preparation, Regidron has a contraindication for use.

It can not be drunk to people with the following diseases:

• diabetes mellitus;
• excess of potassium in the blood;
• at high pressure;
• for renal insufficiency;
• with intestinal obstruction;
• to people who are unconscious.

An overdose of the drug will result in an excess of trace elements in the blood, resulting in the following health problems:

• fatigue;
• loss of consciousness;
• convulsions;
• weakness;
• paralysis;
• respiratory arrest.

The excess of Regidron clogs the blood. This phenomenon is called alkalosis. With alkalosis, lung function is disrupted, convulsions begin, the muscles of the whole body involuntarily contract.

If these symptoms occur, immediately stop using Regidron and seek medical advice.

Regidron can be drunk within 4 days. If the patient has vomiting, then Regiodron may be ineffective, so taken orally solution does not have time to suck in the blood, and therefore, the acid-base reaction of the blood is not restored.

To Regidron acted when vomiting, you need to increase the daily volume of the solution. An additional amount of the drug is calculated similarly to the main one.

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When vomiting, you can simply drink an additional 10 milliliters of solution per kilogram of body weight.

The drug is particularly effective in the first day after the onset of diarrhea. It is so safe that it can be drunk to newborns, pregnant women and breastfeeding women.

The last two categories of patients are recommended to dilute a sachet of powder not in one but in 2 liters of water.

A child with vomiting is given a drink of Regidron every 10 minutes after another attack.

If the composition provokes attacks of vomiting, then it is frozen and given to the child in the form of pieces of ice. The ice will melt directly in the mouth, and the preparation will immediately absorb.

Regidron shifts the pH of the blood to the alkaline side. This should be taken into account if simultaneously it is necessary to take drugs, absorption of which occurs at a certain level of acidity.

Regidron is the most popular preparation for the restoration of water-electrolyte equilibrium.

The package of this remedy should always be kept in the home medicine cabinet, especially if the family has small children, because babies are more likely to have diarrhea than adults.