"Arkoksia" preparation: reviews and instructions for use

The drug "Arkoksia" is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has antipyretic and analgesic effects, and also blocks the formation of prostaglandins.

The drug is produced in the form of green-coated tablets, with a mass active active ingredient etorikoksiba 60, 90 or 120 mg. Excipients are magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, calcium hydrophosphate.

Indications for taking Arkoxia

Comments of doctors recommend using the remedy for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and also with ankylosing spondylitis. The medication relieves pain and inflammation symptoms in gouty acute arthritis.

Contraindications on the use of the drug "Arkoksia"

Instruction for the use of the drug indicates the inadmissibility of taking the drug with the simultaneous formation of polyposis of the nose and bronchial asthma, with intolerance to aspirin. It is not recommended to use the drug for erosive and ulcerative changes in the mucous membranes of the stomach or duodenum, with cerebrovascular or gastrointestinal bleeding, as well as inflammation of the intestine. It is forbidden to use remedy for hemophilia and other abnormalities of blood coagulability, severe renal, cardiac or liver failure. Treatment with the use of the drug "Arkoksia 90" is unacceptable after the performed aortocoronary shunting, with cerebrovascular diseases and ailments of peripheral arteries. Contraindications include pregnancy, breastfeeding, as well as age up to 16 years. Do not take medicine with increased sensitivity to the components of tablets.

Method of application and dosage of the drug "Arkoksia"

Reviews of pharmacists talk about the use of tablets, which is not dependent on the reception of food, while the drug should be washed down with a small amount of water.

Osteoarthritis treats 60 mg of the drug, which is consumed once a day. With arthritis of rheumatoid and ankylosing spondylitis, it is necessary to use 90 mg of medication also once a day. For the treatment of acute gouty arthritis take 120 mg, with the course of admission should not last more than 8 days. For the removal of pain, a single dose is 60 milligrams.

Side effects of the drug "Arkoksia"

The patients' testimonies indicate the multiple negative effects of the drug. On the part of the digestive system often there is nausea, dyspepsia, flatulence, epigastric pain, diarrhea, belching, bloating, and peristalsis may appear. In addition, gastritis, esophagitis, vomiting, and ulcers of gastric mucosa or duodenum may develop.

The nervous system reacts to the reception of tablets with headache, weakness, dizziness, sometimes taste taste, sensitivity, sleep can be disturbed. Patients have anxiety, depression, confusion and hallucinations with Arkoxia. Reviews also indicate the appearance of blurred vision, tinnitus, conjunctivitis, vertigo.

During treatment, in rare cases, kidney failure develops, which, when the drug is withdrawn, does not go away. Sometimes there may be an allergy to the action of tablets.

On the side of the heart and vessels, side effects manifest themselves in the form of increased blood pressure, changes in the heartbeat, circulatory disorders in the brain, atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction may occur.

Due to the active medical action and the many side effects, the medicine should not be taken without the appointment of a doctor.