Allochol tablets are a choleretic preparation that is of vegetable origin. This medicine improves the functioning of the liver and normalizes the process of formation of bile. Regular application of Allochol reduces the likelihood of formation of stones and positively affects the secretion of absolutely all organs of the digestive system.
Indications for the use of Allochol tablets
The Allohol tablets include:
- bile animal;
- nettle extract;
- activated carbon;
- extract of garlic.
All these components are active. Due to this composition, Allochol has a good cholekinetic and choleretic effect. This drug improves the outflow of bile, preventing its stagnation. In addition, it restores the contractile activity of the gallbladder and quickly reduces the severity of various inflammations.
Indications for the use of Allochol tablets are:
- dyskinesia of the gallbladder;
- biliary dyskinesia;
- cholecystitis;
- cirrhosis of the liver (only the initial stages);
- hepatitis (chronic form);
- Atonic constipation .
Use this drug can be and for treatment of uncomplicated cholelithiasis and postcholecystectomy syndrome, which occurs after removal of the gallbladder.
How to take Allochol tablets?
Cholagogue tablets Allochol should always be taken only after meals. If you use them to treat a chronic disease, then the course of therapy should be 21-28 days. Thus it is necessary to take 2 tablets three times a day. Signs of improvement of the condition appear on the 5-8th day of taking the medicine (the patient disappeared dyspepsia and pain decreases). The use of Allochol tablets is also indicated in cases when the chronic process worsens. In this case, the duration of the drug can be increased to 2 months. But you can take only 1 tablet twice a day. The course of treatment with such a drug can be repeated. The main thing is that the interval between treatments should be at least 3 months. In case of an overdose, the patient may experience diarrhea, severe itching, diarrhea and an increase in transaminases in the blood.
You should not drink alcohol when you take Allochol. Alcoholic drinks strengthen the secretion of digestive juices, increase their activity and can even provoke spasm of bile duct sphincters. Because of this, after taking Allohol, the patient may have pain in the area of ​​hypochondrium (usually right) or severe diarrhea.
Also during treatment with this drug, you should not take medicines that contain:
- cholestipol;
- aluminum hydroxide;
- cholestyramine.
This is due to the fact that they reduce its effectiveness. But with various infectious processes in the liver or biliary tract, simultaneously with Allochol, antibiotics, antiseptics and other chemotherapeutic agents can be used for treatment. Together, they more effectively affect any inflammatory process in the biliary tract.
Contraindications to the use of Allochol tablets
Before you drink Allochol in tablets, make sure that you do not have any contraindications to its use. It is forbidden to carry out treatment with such a drug for individual intolerance to any components, obstructive jaundice, ulcers or liver dystrophy in acute or subacute form. It is also not recommended to take Allochol for acute hepatitis and cholelithiasis if the stones are larger than 10 mm in size.
Contraindicated in these pills and during an attack of acute cholecystitis . They can be drunk only on the 5th day, when the patient returns to the usual meal.