Injections "Voltaren": reviews, application, contraindication

Periodically in the life of each person, there are situations when it is impossible to do without anesthetics. This can be various injuries, inflammatory lesions, neurological problems. Regardless of the cause, there is a need - to stop the pain. With such a task, the NSAIDs do an excellent job. "Voltaren" injections are often used. The patients' testimonies indicate the preparation as a highly effective remedy.

Description of the medicine

The active substance of the drug "Voltaren" is diclofenac sodium. This is a non-steroidal compound with pronounced properties:

• Anti-inflammatory,
• Antirheumatic,
• Antipyretic,
• Anesthetizing.

The drug depresses the biosynthesis of prostaglandins. Namely, they play a major role in the occurrence of pain, inflammation, fever in a person. This property is the main mechanism of action of the drug "Voltaren".

With rheumatic pathologies, the effect of the drug can reduce the symptoms of the disease. Feels less puffiness, reduces pain, improves joint function.

The analgesic effect after drug administration is manifested, as a rule, after 15-30 minutes. The medicine can eliminate migraine attacks. In addition, injections of "Voltaren" were found in patients in postoperative and post-traumatic conditions. They can significantly alleviate pain, reduce puffiness, provoked by wounds and inflammation.

Application of the medicine

"Voltaren" injections are widely used in medical practice. Indications for use of this tool are as follows:

• Inflammatory processes in the genitourinary system;
• Rheumatism, arthritis;
• Childbirth (used as an analgesic medicine);
• Algodismenorea;
• Bouts of gout;
• Inflammation of the middle ear;
• Hepatic and renal colic;
• neuralgia;
• radiculitis;
• Migraine attacks;
• Myalgia;
• Postoperative period (acts as an analgesic);
• Oncological pathology (is the strongest analgesic).

Recommended dosage

The drug "Voltaren" in this dosage form is prescribed exclusively by specialists. Injections are used only during inpatient treatment. The drug has a lot of specific nuances. Therefore, this medication is not used for self-medication.

There may be two types of drug administration:

• intramuscular;
• intravenous.

Dosage is completely dependent on the course of the pathology and the patient's individual tolerance to the Voltaren drug (injections). The course of treatment is two days. Longer use of injections is prohibited. If necessary, further therapy is continued with suppositories or tablets.

The main recommendations for intramuscular injection:

1. After opening, you must immediately apply the solution. If the contents remain unused, then such a medicine should be disposed of.
2. Each ampoule is used for a single dose.
3. The recommended dose is usually 75 mg - one ampoule per day.
4. In severe pathologies (eg, colic), the norm may increase. In this case, two 75 mg injections are allowed throughout the day. Between the injections it is necessary to observe a time interval of several hours. It is recommended to inject the second injection into the other buttock.
5. Sometimes to increase the analgesic effect (for example, with severe migraine attacks), the injections of "Voltaren" are combined with suppositories or tablets. In this case, the maximum daily dose can not be more than 175 mg.

Side effects

Despite the high effectiveness of the drug, the patient may experience undesirable reactions. So testifies the preparation "Voltaren" (injections) instruction. The patient's feedback in many ways confirms the manifestation of side effects.

Unpleasant reactions that can occur against the background of injections are usually as follows:

1. Dysfunction of the digestive tract. Patients may experience abdominal pain, vomiting, and lack of appetite. Some patients complain of a change in the shape of the stool. Sometimes ulcers appear.
2. Failures in the work of the cardiovascular system. Patients may experience increased pressure, pain in the chest. Some patients develop tachycardia.
3. Changes in the work of the nervous system. When treating this drug, there may be a headache, dizziness. Sometimes patients have a loss of ability to navigate in space. Dips in memory are possible . Some patients feel sleep disturbance, the emergence of a depressed state.
4. Disturbances in the sense organs. Deafness may occur, taste changes may change. Some patients show a deterioration in vision.

The above-described adverse events that may accompany the use of this drug are serious enough. That is why this drug is used exclusively for the doctor's prescription and only in a hospital setting.

Contraindications to use

There are many conditions and pathologies in which Voltaren is not prescribed - injections. Contraindications to use must be taken into account by the attending physician.

Not bad, if the patient himself will know about them. Especially if in spite of all the recommendation, is engaged in self-medication.

So, injections of the drug "Voltaren" are contraindicated when:

1. Hypersensitivity to the components of the drug.
2. The onset of asthma attacks, acute rhinitis, urticaria after taking the drug "Acetylsalicylic acid." In this case, any NSAID is contraindicated to the patient.
3. Active ulcers of the stomach, intestines, bleeding or perforations.
4. Severe renal, hepatic insufficiency.
5. Inflammatory bowel pathologies - nonspecific ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease.
6. Heart failure, in severe form.
7. High risk of postoperative bleeding.
8. Pregnancy (in the third trimester).
9. Postoperative pain syndrome after aortocoronary shunting.

Possible overdose

It is extremely dangerous to use the drug "Voltaren" (injections) without limit. There are no typical clinical signs of an overdose. Sometimes a patient may experience vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness. In some cases, there is gastrointestinal bleeding, seizures or ringing in the ears.

In severe poisoning, the patient has liver damage and kidney failure.

Treatment for cases of overdose is symptomatic. First of all, all measures should be aimed at eliminating such consequences:

• Kidney failure;
• Hypotension;
• Convulsions;
• Respiratory depression;
• Gastrointestinal disorders.

Drug analogues

If there is a need, the doctor will recommend certain drugs that can replace the "Voltaren" injections. Analogs that have a similar effect and composition, it is not at all desirable to select independently. It is better to enlist the support of a doctor.

Effective analogues are:

• Diclofenac.
• «Artrex».
• "Diklak".
• "Diclonate."
• "Belief".
• Orthofen.

Patient Reviews

To get an idea of the advantages and disadvantages of the medicine, one can only experience the injections of Voltaren. Reviews of people who used the drug, can clarify the picture. Therefore, let us consider what opinion has developed in patients about this drug.

Almost all people notice, along with a favorable effect, significant deficiencies in the medicine.

The advantages include:

1. The ability of the drug to quickly stop pain syndrome.
2. Variety of dosage forms (after injections, you can easily switch to suppositories or tablets).

Unfortunately, Voltaren injections have many shortcomings. The patient's comments indicate the following disadvantages:

• Soreness and inflammation at the injection site;
• Often there is an expression of the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract;
• A large number of contraindications and side effects;
• The probability of developing allergies (observed quite often).

Thus, it is possible to sum up how useful it is to use the injections of Voltaren. The patients' testimonies really indicate the possibility of very quickly getting rid of the painful unbearable pain.

Therefore, this medication can be used only in short courses. Given all contraindications and unpleasant side effects, use the drug is only for the doctor's prescription.

In addition, injections of "Voltaren" are a prescription medicine. This is able to protect patients from the thoughtless use of such a serious drug.

Conclusion

A large number of contraindications and serious adverse reactions do not interfere with the drug "Voltaren" to be one of the most popular anti-inflammatory drugs. However, the use of these injections is resorted only in extreme cases. Often such injections are administered to patients at the peak of pathology. For example, in case of an exacerbation of arthritis. After that, the patient is transferred to tablets, rectal suppositories or capsules, the active ingredient of which is diclofenac sodium. Despite the similar composition, such dosage forms have fewer undesirable manifestations. Consequently, the complications are much less frequent.