It happens that heartburn Suddenly occurs when you calmly learn on a soft sofa and watch the movie breathtaking on the plot, pesters during the working day in the most responsible moment or constantly torments when you travel away from my home. And these stuffing symptoms very spoil the mood. In such cases, you can have an ambulance assistance to Gastal. From the article you will learn how the drug acts, how to apply it, can everyone can do it?
Why the heartburn arises?
When you feel heartburn, it means that the body of the esophagus sphincter, that is, the circular muscle, located in its lower part, relaxed. Therefore, the portion of the stomach of the acidic juice produced from the stomach was abandoned. And the mucosa of the esophagus, absolutely not accustomed to exist in such an uncomfortable environment for her, annoyed and gives a feeling of burning. Our site will call the most common causes of heartburn:
- Some accepted intern products (citrus, coffee, sour fruits and berries, chocolate, tomatoes, carbonated water;
- overeating and obesity;
- Some medicines - nitroglycerin, nitrosorbide, nifedipine, amlodipine, antidepressants;
- Pregnancy - the uterus constantly grows and raises the stomach up;
- smoking, alcohol in excessive amounts;
- Diseases of the digestive system (ulcers, Gastritis, reflux, Pancreatitis).
General information about the drug
Release gastal in the form of white (or slightly creamy) tablets with a smooth surface and finish in the middle. They have a mint or cherry taste and are intended for resorption. Blister includes six tablets. Packaging usually 60, 30 or 12 tablets. As active (acting) substances are:
- Aluminum gel hydroxide magnesium carbonate;
- Magnesium hydroxide.
As auxiliary substances taken: mannitol, monohydrate, sorbitol lactose, corn starch, sodium cyclamat, talc, sodium saccharinate, magnesium stearate, flavors that attach cherry or mint.
Refers the drug to antacid agents (used for neutralization of hydrochloric acid).
pharmachologic effect
Combined drug capable of eliminating increased acidity and caused violations of functions and stomach operations. The first of the components reduces acidity to the norm, setting up digestion. A magnesium carbonate immediately manifests neutralizing properties, prolonging antacid effect. Tablet Gastala immediately begins to shoot unpleasant symptoms in the area of the stomach, the action lasts about two hours. In this case, the supply of isolecithin, pepsin and bile acids occurs.
It has already been proven that if the antacid contains aluminum hydroxide, then protective and regenerative mechanisms in the gastric mucosa are enhanced. If there is damage, the factors of epidermal growth and other substances needed for healing are accumulated in these places. While the mechanism of this process is studied by incompleteness. After spent «Work» The components of the drug are not absorbed, but are removed from the body with the feces.
When you can take gastal?
The medicine is recommended for all states accompanied by heartburn. It can be:
- hyperacid gastritis;
- erosive processes on the gastric mucosa;
- Reflux-esophagitis (esophagus disease associated with exit, casting an acidic medium of the stomach in its cavity);
- ulcerative processes in the stomach and intestines;
- sharp pancreatitis;
- diaphragmal hernia;
- dyspepsia when food in the stomach is longly delayed.
Does the drug cause unwanted effects?
Side Effects when receiving the drug are extremely rare. And yet we warn readers about them. It can be:
- constipation, diarrhea or nausea, a change in taste perception;
- Allergic manifestations.
Contraindications:
- severe forms of renal failure;
- hypophosphatemia;
- Alzheimer's disease;
- lactose intolerance, lack of lactase organism;
- hypersensitivity to components included in tablets;
- If the child is younger than six years.
Pregnant women can take money only with permission and under the control of their attending physician.
How to apply Gastal?
It is not necessary to swallow a tablet, it should be slowly dissolved in the oral cavity. Per day allowed to take up to 8 tablets, the amount of receptions can be from 2 to 4. When heartbud, the reception is carried out no matter when a man has driven. But in the treatment of diseases of the digestion, it is advisable to use the drug, an hour after the last meal and before the departure to sleep. Children have a one-time dose halve if their age from six and to twelve years.
special instructions
If you take hastal every day, the continuous course should not be more than 14 days.
In case of exceeding the prescribed doses, overdose and unwanted effects that we mentioned above are possible.
If you are taking more other medications, then consult your doctor when it is to take them if you can combine them with a gastal, because there are medicines that are incompatible with antacids. In addition, Gastal can strengthen their therapeutic properties or, on the contrary, brake. For example, with simultaneous admission of tetracycline, a complex is formed, which is very poorly absorbed.
Gastal reduces the therapeutic properties of the following drugs:
- Indomethacin, aspirin, naproxen,
- cardiac glycosides;
- iron preparations and some vitamins (A, K, E, D);
- Offloxacin, ciprofloxacin, doxycycline;
- Captive, metoprolol;
- Aminazine, barbiturates, indirect anticoagulants.
All these drugs must be taken in one hour before you receive hacking or two hours after the resorption of this antacid.
But the action of Levodopa or Nalidixic Acid Gastal significantly strengthens, it should be taken into account by persistent Parkinsonism.
If a person has a weight less than fifty kilograms, then the dose should be less.
Drivers or people of other professions whose work is connected with the mechanisms, the reception of the drug should not be afraid.
You can store Hastal for three years from the date of release, which is available on the package, observing the usual storage conditions, do not forget that your first aid kit should be inaccessible for kids.
Medicine can be purchased at the pharmacy without presenting the recipe. Remember that this drug only removes the bouts of heartburn. If she has become your constant companion, you should visit a gastroenterologist or therapist. After all, heartburn can be one of the signs of serious illness, for example, developing gastritis, ulcers or esophagus cancer. Visit the doctor who will appoint a number of studies in order to start the right treatment in time and prevent serious aless.
