Levamisole is highly effective for suppressing helminths and can be used in adults over 14 years old. It is also used in veterinary medicine for pets and livestock.
Author: John Buducci
He knows everything about medications – to which pharmacological group the drug belongs, what components are included in its composition, how it differs from its analogs, what indications, contraindications, and side effects remedy has. John is a real pro in his field, so he knows all these subtleties and wants to tell you about them.
Budesonide (Rhinocort) Inhaler
Budesonide Inhaler – for what diseases it is used. Benefits of using budesonide by inhalation. When transferring patients to therapy with the Budesonide inhaler from other inhalers, the treatment regimen should be selected individually.
Uses of Prednisolone (Prelone)
Prednisolone is a synthetic oral medication that resembles cortisol in its action, with the only difference that cortisol occurs naturally in the body, and Prednisolone is a man-made substance. On the one hand, the medicine is meant to suppress the immune system and, on the other hand, is called to reduce inflammation linked to conditions such as Crohn’s disease, asthma, psoriasis, and even leukemia.
Clomid (Clomiphene)
The remedy is one of the treatments belonging to the group of non-steroidal antiestrogen. The drug stimulates ovulation in women who have infertility diagnosis, helping to conceive a child. For men, it is also used to improve insemination during intercourse.
Ventolin (Salbutamol)
Do you suffer from asthma symptoms? Most doctors prescribe using Ventolin based on Salbutamol. Learn what it is and how it works before you start the treatment course. Everyone knows how dangerous asthma is.
Suprax
Suprax is an antibiotic medication that can be used for a wide range of purposes, most of them being the treatment of bacterial infections. Another Suprax generic name is cefixime, and it is a cephalosporin antibiotic.
Elavil
Elavil is a popular medicine that is known as a tricyclic antidepressant. It diminishes clues of bulimia (an eating disorder), pathological weeping and laughing (associated with multiple sclerosis), migraine headaches and mental depression.
Imodium
Imodium by binding with opioid receptors of the intestinal wall (stimulation of choline-and adrenergic neurons through guanine nucleotides) decreases the tone and motility of smooth muscles of the intestine (due to inhibition of the release of acetylcholine and Pg). Slows the peristalsis and increases the time of passage of intestinal contents.
Synthroid
Synthroid is usually used as a replacement for a hormone normally produced by your thyroid gland. The hormone is necessary to regulate the body’s energy and metabolism.
Arimidex
Arimidex is approved for adjuvant treatment (treatment following surgery with or without radiation) of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer. Your doctor may prescribe this remedy for other purposes. Contact your physician to learn more information.
Starlix
Starlix is prescribed to lower the blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes. It is prescribed together with exercises and diet. Starlix is an antidiabetic remedy.
Relafen
Mode of action – anti-inflammatory, analgetic, antipyretic. The mechanism of action connected with the blockade of cyclooxygenase, which leads to disruption of metabolism of arachidonic acid and reducing concentrations of GHGs. Suppresses exudative and proliferative processes in the inflammation, reduces the concentration of bradykinin and histamine, but also increases the threshold of sensitivity of pain receptors.
Micardis hct
Micardis Hct is a combination of drug prescribed to cure high blood pressure. It works by preventing the hormone angiotensin II from constricting the blood vessels, thus widening the vessels. It is also a a diuretic remedy.
Exelon
Alzheimer’s illness causes physical changes in the brain that disrupt the flow of information and interfere with behavior, memory and thinking. By boosting levels of the chemical messenger acetylcholine, Exelon can temporarily improve brain function in some Alzheimer’s sufferers.
Hyzaar
Hyzaar is taken to cure high blood pressure. This drug is a combination of 2 medications (an angiotensin receptor blocker and a thiazide “water pill”/diuretic). Hyzaar relaxes blood vessels, widening them The thiazide diuretic extends the amount of urine, therefore curtailing excess water and salt in your body.
Trileptal
Trileptal is an antiepileptic drug. Trileptal and IHL blocks the voltage-dependent Na +-channels, which leads to the stabilization of overexcited neurons membranes, inhibition of serial discharges of neurons and reduction of synaptic impulses. Increased K + conductance and modulation of Ca2 +-channels activated by a high potential of the membrane, also involved in the antiepileptic influence of the medicine.
Lopid
Lopid is a blood lipid and cholesterol-modifying medicament. It works by helping to reduce cholesterol and triglycerides (fatty acids) in the blood.
Combivir
Combivir is prescribed in combination with other drugs to cure HIV infection. Combivir belongs to antiviral remedies.
Equasym (Methylphenidate hydrochloride)
Equasym Tablets contain methylphenidate hydrochloride which enhances the activity of certain underactive parts of the brain. Each tablet contains 5mg, 10mg or 20mg of methylphenidate hydrochloride. Methylphenidate is used to treat a behavioural disorder in children known as attention-deficit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD).
Asthma Medications and Devices: Classification of Asthma
National guidelines set goals to improve care of asthmatic patients. Simple, straightforward objectives are set forth, including the prevention of chronic symptoms, maintaining normal lung function and activity levels, preventing exacerbations, and lessening the need for emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
Bronchial Asthma, Book
Family physicians interested in asthma would find parts of this book valuable, but on the whole, it is not for family physicians. In the preface the editors declare that they hope the book will be useful to those who treat asthma, and for specialists it might well be. Although chapter authors include physicians from Australia, Japan, Portugal, Belgium, Poland, and Canada, most are from the United States.
Lamictal
Lamictal is a popular medication that is known as anticonvulsants. It diminishes seizures and nerve pain like mania (frenzied or abnormally excited mood), bipolar disorder, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, depression and epilepsy. Don’t stop treatment with Lamictal earlier than it was prescribed by your doctor even if you notice improvements of your condition.
Coumadin
Your doctor may prescribe this remedy for other purposes. Contact your physician if you need to learn more information about this drug.
Zispin SolTab (Mirtazapine)
Zispin SolTab is one of a group of medicines called antidepressants. Zispin SolTab is used to treat depressive illness. If so, you must talk to your doctor as soon as you can before taking Zispin SolTab.
Persantine
Dilates coronary vessels (mostly arterioles) and causes a sizeable increasing of volumetric blood flow velocity. Increases the oxygen content in venous blood of the coronary sinus and myocardial uptake. Enables the development of collateral coronary circulation, improves microcirculation.