From the "disease of well-being", and this is what allergy is called, many children suffer today. It is diagnosed even in newborns, since mother during pregnancy and before it could contact with food or other kinds of allergens. Excellent assistants in the fight against allergy manifestations is the drug zodak for children, which is available in the form of drops, tablets and syrup.
Indications, contraindications and side effects
For a child's body, any medicine is a kind of stress, so it is necessary to choose a drug that will have the least negative impact. Symptomatic treatment of allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, polynomial, urticaria, dermatoses, Quincke's edema and fever is effectively performed with the aid of a zodiac. This is a remedy with prolonged action. Indications for the application of the zodak include all types of allergies.
Like any drug, the zodiac has a number of contraindications, which include individual sensitivity to cetirizine or hydroxyzine, as well as renal failure.
When taking zodak, side effects can occur, including drowsiness, fatigue, headaches, dizziness. As soon as the drug is stopped, all these negative manifestations disappear.
Dosage of the drug
Before taking the zodak, children need to conduct a full examination, take tests. Despite the fact that the minimum age is indicated in the annotation to the drug (from year to year), doctors sometimes prescribe drops of zodiac to children up to a year. In this case, the dose of syrup or drops is significantly reduced. However, tablets can be taken from the age of six.
The recommended daily dosage of the zodiac for children from one to two years is 5 drops (two doses), at the age of two to six years - 10 drops (can be divided into two doses), from six to twelve years - 20 drops. Concerning the syrup, in which the concentration of the active substance is greater than in the drops, the scheme is as follows: from one to six years - twice a day twice a half a measuring spoon, from six to twelve years - twice a day, one measuring spoon. Children who reached the age of six, you can give one tablet a zodiac per day.
The dosage recommended by the doctor can not be exceeded, because at night the child can have apnea, that is, a 15-second respiratory arrest, which affects health negatively.