Festal during pregnancy

In modern medical practice, a drug such as "Festal" has become widespread in the treatment of digestive disorders and dysfunctions. Thanks to the pancreatin entering into it, he copes with such unpleasant phenomena as heartburn, heaviness, bloating, flatulence, nausea.

These symptoms very often appear in pregnant women who begin to "eat for two" and, as a result, give a double load to an already working in an intensified mode of the body, which often begins to malfunction. What to do in such cases, after all, almost all drugs that allow you to cope with the above symptoms are contraindicated in pregnancy. However, there are exceptions. These include the effective and fairly common drug "Festal".

Can Festal be taken to pregnant women in the same way as other patients?

For pregnant women, there are a number of special preparations. However, it happens that it is Festal that proves to be more effective than other drugs. Doctors often appoint "Festal" during pregnancy as a means to improve the digestion process and stabilize the production of enzymes. The composition of the drug, in addition to the bovine bile extract, includes hemicellulase and enzymes (amylase, protease, lipase). It is believed that these components are harmless, but doctors recommend taking Festal during pregnancy very carefully, just like during breastfeeding. Children "Festal" is used with caution, starting from the age of three. Assign the medication inside one dragee three times a day with or without food. At reception it is impossible to crack or break a capsule, differently all useful enzymes under the influence of gastric juice on them will simply lose the properties. The protective capsule, on the contrary, dissolves only in the small intestine and delivers its contents to their destination in complete safety.

Patients with diseases of the kidneys, gall bladder or pancreas should be cautiously taken "Festal". Contraindications to taking the drug should take into account allergies and hypertension, people with a diagnosis of "hepatitis", those who have hepatic insufficiency, hepatic coma, mechanical jaundice, as well as those who have cholelithiasis, gallbladder empyema or intestinal obstruction.

Before doing x-rays or ultrasound, a few days before the test should drink 2 tablets three times a day. "Festal" during pregnancy, when unpleasant sensations in the stomach arise from malnutrition, are also taken only a few days. This period is enough to normalize the work of the stomach. In case of serious illnesses, when the patient needs constant replacement therapy, Festal should be taken within a couple of months, and sometimes even years.

If you take "Festal" during pregnancy, and you suddenly had such symptoms as sneezing, lacrimation, nausea, there was a frequent loose stool, abdominal pain - maybe it is a manifestation of an allergy to the drug. In this case, the reception of "Festal" is better to stop. If the child has a perianal irritation, as well as irritation of the oral cavity, then he was prescribed a large dose of the drug.

To your stomach was healthy, you must always remember: the main thing - prevention. Eat right, stick to a healthy lifestyle, and then problems with digestion will bypass you. And pregnant women need to reconsider their ideas about food, and there are not "for two", but for two, paying attention, first of all, not on the quantity, but on the quality of food that gets out of the mother's body into the child's body.