Interferon: Instructions for use

For many years, the domestic preparation Interferon has been successfully used in clinical practice. Instructions for the use of this medicine is made easy for the reader. It gives so detailed recommendations to use that the patient can apply the drug on his own.

Reading the instruction, the consumer first of all gets acquainted with the name of the means: "Interferon Leukocyte Human Dry".

What is the comment on its pharmacological action?

Interferon is a protein that is produced endogenously (within the body). The substance actively resists the action of viruses. In addition, it has immunostimulating activity, i. E. Contributes to the increase of protective forces in the body.

To understand the therapeutic effect of the drug, you need to know that the substance that is taken and what is produced in the body is, in its biochemical nature, the same interferon.

Instruction for use allows you to understand that during the disease the virus is able to destroy the protein that is inside the body. But with the help of the drug, his internal stock is replenished, and defensive abilities are being restored.

Further, the indications for using the "Interferon" agent are considered. Instructions for the use of the medicine lists diseases and disease states that can be treated with the drug. It is influenza, viral diseases of the eye, acute respiratory viral infection , weakened immunity.

What tips for taking medication "Interferon Leukocyte Human Dry" offers instructions?

With preventive reception, the reason for using the drug is the threat of getting infected with the flu, and the termination of use is allowed only when the period of possible infection has passed.

If it is necessary to treat the disease, and not to prevent it, then it is important to start taking the medication together with the appearance of the first signs of the disease. The degree of effectiveness of treatment directly depends on how early it began.

How to take Interferon? Instructions for use tell us about this in detail.

It is necessary to prepare a solution of the preparation on the basis of distilled or boiled water. It is stored in a cold place for no more than two days.

Open the ampoule, pour water into it. Shake the contents until the dry flakes are dissolved without residue. It turns out opalescent (shimmering, flickering) liquid of crimson color.

With the preventive purpose, twice a day, administer to each nostril five drops of solution (a regular pipette). The interval between sessions is from six hours or more.

For medicinal purposes, the drug is taken not only by digestion, but also in the form of inhalations, which is much more effective. Suitable sprayer of any model. You can do inhalation in the nose and / or in the mouth. The dose for one session is made up of three ampoules of medication dissolved in ten milliliters of water. Before dissolving the dry fraction, water should be heated, but not more than up to 37 degrees.

Inhalations are carried out twice a day with a break of at least two hours.

For therapeutic (and not prophylactic) instillation, one ampoule of the drug dissolves in two milliliters of water. Five drops are injected into both nasal passages. Breaks between sessions - two hours. The procedure should be repeated five times a day. The term of treatment is three days. There is not always a guarantee that during this time the disease will recede, however, it is ineffective to use Interferon over this period.

This medicine is also buried in the eyes of their viral diseases.

From the point of view of contraindications to the use of a completely unusual place among most medicines is precisely "Human Leukocyte Interferon": there are no side effects and any prohibitions on its administration.

There is a whole group of interferons. Among them, a definite place is occupied by the Leukocyte Human intener. The medicine is naturally obtained from donor blood. It is classified as first generation interferons.

In addition to this medication, in Russia, a number of other medicinal kinds of interferon have been developed that have antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, immunomodulating activity.

These include, in particular:

- Viferon,

- Reaferon,

- Grippferon,

- Betaferon,

- Anaferon.

Several years ago, on the basis of interferon of the second generation, obtained synthetically by means of genetic engineering, the drug "Ingaron" was created at the Russian Institute of the Flu. He became a real sensation in the fight against viral infections and oncological diseases.

Doctors, experts from the United States recognized Inharon as a unique defense against bioterrorism. It's no secret that in the preparation for biological aggression terrorists pay much attention to smallpox, since young people in most countries do not have immunity to it. And this drug can stop this disease.

Especially important is Ingaron in the treatment of avian influenza. He replenishes the stores of interferon, destroyed by the virus in the patient, thereby restoring immunity.

It is also effective in the treatment of hepatitis C, in the fight against HIV and tuberculosis infections. It is proven that this drug reduces the side effects of cancer chemotherapy.

The development of interferons is one of the priority areas of domestic immunology and virology.