Otsilokoktsinum - a preparation with a homeopathic effect on the body is used to treat various forms of influenza, SARS, ARI.
Homeopathy is a "similar treatment". This means that elements or substances similar to those in it are introduced into the body.
Treatment with this drug and other homeopathic medicines is practiced all over the world. The most beneficial is the impact in the early stages of the disease. It is not used for the treatment of angina, bronchitis and other infectious diseases. Apply oskillokoktsinum necessary for the first symptoms of the disease:
- aches in the body;
- cough;
- pain or heaviness in the head;
- general malaise;
- weakness;
- Pershing or sore throat;
- nasal congestion or a slight runny nose;
- fever.
Oscillococcinum is administered to children as prescribed by the doctor. Age restrictions are not specified in the instructions. The drug is shown from birth, only after consultation of the pediatrician.
Oscillococcinum - composition
The active substance is the liver extract, and the hearts of the Barbary duck.
Excipients - sucrose, lactose.
Ociloccinum - application
It is used in the same dosage, both for adults and for children. The drug is allowed, also for the elderly and for various chronic diseases and vices.
Dosage:
- 1 dragee under the tongue until completely dissolved at the first symptoms of the disease;
- if the improvement does not occur after taking the first pills, you should drink the next in six hours;
- after taking the second pills, you can drink another one, six hours later, but only on the condition that you have not yet felt better;
- with acute form of the disease - one pills twice a day;
- for prevention - one pills once a week.
The dosage for children is similar to the adult dosage. The length of the course of treatment depends on the severity of the disease, or it is determined by the attending physician.
Mothers of infants have a question of how to give ocillococcinum, because the baby is not yet explained how to keep the dragee under the tongue. The answer is simple: it must be dissolved in the mixture / breast milk and given from a bottle, or watered with a spoon.
Children over the age of two and up to six can breed pills in boiled water.
Proportion: one dragee to 70ml. liquid.
Contraindications and side effects
- individual intolerance to the components of the drug;
- take with caution during pregnancy and lactation;
- propensity to allergic reactions to products of sucrose and lactose.
Allergic reactions (rashes) are possible.
Storage method
Store at a temperature of no higher than 25 degrees. Shelf life is not more than five years.
Opinion about the preparation
Oscillococcinum was developed in 1919 during the epidemic of flu by the Spanish doctor Joseph Rua. He found that farmers who breed musky ducks do not succumb to disease.
Since initially he studied the blood of sick people and found there special bacteria, later called osillococci. But the vaccine, developed with the use of these bacteria, did not yield results. The doctor decided to conduct research on animals.
He found oscilloscopes in the liver and heart of ducks, extracted an extract from them. He was then called ocillococcinum.
Opinion about the drug is ambiguous:
- First, modern scientists have proved that it is impossible to consider strains of the influenza virus using a conventional microscope.
- Secondly, Dr. Joseph Rua considered the cause of the disease
people with the flu are bacteria. To date, it has been proven and is a well-known fact - influenza is caused by viruses, not bacteria. - Thirdly, a lot of clinical studies of the effect of the drug were carried out. In these studies, subjects were divided into two groups: one took the preparation ocilococcinum, others took placebo. The results show that one group had a positive result. The difference in favor of the drug is 10 -15%.
But, there is also a lot of positive feedback from people taking the drug.
But is there any certainty that this medicine helped them? Or did their body deal with the disease?