How to understand what exactly colic make anxious child? From pain in the intestine, he constantly screams, and his little tummy increases in the amount, it becomes very hard and similar to the elastic ball. With colic in the intestine, gases are rapidly formed, they literally cut off its walls, causing concern to small creating. In some children, such a problem appears on the fifth week after birth, but others - the first colic makes aware of themselves while staying in the maternity department. There is another trouble characteristic of infants. When newborns suck the mother's chest or get food from a children's bottle, then many of them swallow air. And then swelling occurs, arises Ikota. So the parents are concerned - what to do to facilitate the state of the baby? And the method of treatment should not cause any harm. Turning to the pediatrician, they receive a recommendation - to give a newborn drug called «Sab Simplex».
General information about the drug
This tool is made in France. This slightly viscous suspension structure having white (less often gray-white) color and characteristic raspberry-vanilla smell. It is packaged by 30 ml in the bottle-dropper of dark glass. Active substance that reduces the formation of large-scale gas bubbles in the intestine, is Simetikon. This is a silicon gel, granting foaming. It can be found in the composition of funds from heartburn, as well as creams used to get rid of bedside, diaper. When preparing a suspension, auxiliary substances are used: sodium citrate dihydrate, carbomer, hyprontellosis, citric acid monohydrate, sodium cyclamat, sodium benzoate, sodium saccharium, sodium, sodium, sodium sodium, sodium acid, polyglicosteaaric acid esters, water and two flavoring (vanilla and raspberry).
In one millilitress, suspension contains approximately 25 drops.
How to act Sab Simplex?
This agent is related to the group of drugs that reduce flatulence. Once in the stomach and mucous membos of the intestinal tube, Simethikon significantly reduces the surface tension of gas bubbles, there formed. The destruction of these bubbles occurs, and the gases released under this process are absorbed by the intestinal wall or evacuated during the peristaltic.
The drug is absolutely safe for treatment colik, After all, it is not absorbed into the bloodstream and intestinal walls, does not affect other organs. You can use it for a long time, it does not cause any addiction. It is removed unchanged along with the wheel masses.
Apply it not only to the kids, but also children of older age and adults before carrying out ultrasound, esophagogastroduodenoscopy and radiography. SAB Simplex warns with these interference and image overlap. It was revealed that the drug promotes better irrigation with a contrasting agent of the mucous membrane of the thick bowel, prevents the breaks of the generated contrasting film. Foam is removed («Fit») physical way, without chemical reactions.
How to apply sab simplex?
Newborn and kids before reaching a one-year-old age, it is necessary to give 15 droplets of the suspension before each feeding, you can yield the medicine and in front of the night bed. This remedy is easily dissolved in liquids, it can be dissolved with milk or water (boiled). If the baby is feeding from the bottle, then you have a medicine in it (in the children's mixture). It is permissible to give SAB simplex in pure form, feeding the desired number of drops directly into the mouth of the baby (if it succeeds). The bottle is equipped with a comfortable dropper, so no overdose will happen. Before the feeding, we actively shake the bottle, then turn it over and tapping it on the bottom, then the medicine will go to the pipette. Our site has already mentioned that the drug is appointed not only newborns, so we will explain how old the drug should be given older kids and adult people:
- From a year to six years - 15 droplets at the time of eating or after meals, before bedtime, you can also count the same number of drops;
- from six to fifteen years - every reception should be counted from 20 to 30 drops every 4-6 hours;
- adults - from 30 to 45 drops, also after 4-6 hours making repeated reception.
The best time for reception is during or immediately after eating. This drug without concerns can use women, both during pregnancy and during lactation.
But how to prepare for diagnostic research of the gastrointestinal. To prepare for the radiography procedure for the day before the appointed date in the evening, take from three to six teaspoons of the drug. If you have ultrasound, then in the evening before the procedure, take three teaspoons of this suspension and three more teaspoons three hours before the office of the ultrasound. Before Endoscopy SAB Simplex must be taken in an amount of half to a teaspoon. If necessary, at the moment of research, the specialist may additionally introduce the drug through the endoscope.
More SAB Simplex is used in poisoning with various detergents. The minimum dose in such cases is a teaspoon, but it can be enlarged (it all depends on the well-being of the victim).
About contraindications and side effects
The drug cannot be given at:
- Intestinal obstruction;
- obstructive diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
- Hypersensitivity to Siemetikon or other ingredients available.
Typically, the drug is well tolerated. Nevertheless, allergic reactions may sometimes occur due to the presence of some auxiliary components in suspension. If parents give Sab Simplex newborn baby very often, that is, the risk of appearance constipation.
The duration of the use of suspension is individual. And if a few days have a good health, he is cheese, he eats up and sleep and calmly sleeps, then the reception of this fund can be canceled.
