Generic Diazepam Brand Name™ Valium
Valium has a wide scope for mental and neurological disorders and can be used in both adults and children.
General information about the medicinal product
Valium is a potent neurotropic benzodiazepine drug available only by prescription. According to the instructions for use. Valium is an anxiolytic and tranquilizer that has a number of clinical effects:
- able to eliminate manifestations of anxiety, depressive and depressing emotions, tension;
- has an antiepileptic effect - eliminates convulsions and hyperexcitability of nerve endings;
- has a muscle relaxant effect;
- has an antiarrhythmic effect (dilation of the coronary vessels);
- has a depressing effect on the secretory work of the endocrine glands;
- has a general sedative effect on the central nervous system.
Drug group, scope
The medication belongs to the pharmacological group of tranquilizers and psychotropic substances, which are included in the subgroup of potent reporting drugs from the official list of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
Valium is used in various branches of medicine:
- neurology - to relieve anxiety and enhance the effect of antiepileptic drugs;
- psychiatry - to reduce the hyperexcitability of the cerebral cortex, to stop attacks of aggression and hallucinations in patients;
- anesthesiology and resuscitation - with postoperative sedation and a decrease in the sensitivity of pain receptors, for premedication and maintenance of general anesthesia, pain relief and relief of the birth process in placental abruption.
Indications and contraindications
Before taking the drug Valium, it is important to understand why it is prescribed, in order to avoid negative consequences or side effects from the use of the drug. The drug is released only by prescription from a doctor and with a limited course of administration.
Among the indications for the use of the drug are:
- neurological disorders and psychiatric pathology (epilepsy, dysphoria, manic-depressive disorders, senile or juvenile psychosis, neurosis, psychopathy, hallucinations, schizophrenia, insomnia, paranoia, spastic cerebral palsy, hysteria of various origins);
- use during surgical interventions, as a component of general anesthesia, as well as to maintain an analgesic and muscle relaxant effect during minor interventions, conduction or intravenous anesthesia;
- with rheumatological and autoimmune diseases (polyarthritis with a tendency to progression, arthritis, vertebral syndrome, bursitis, myositis);
- with cardiac disorders (vasospasm, hypertension, hypertensive crisis, angina pectoris with severe pain, tension headache and high blood pressure, myocardial infarction);
- in the obstetric and gynecological field (psychosomatic disorders, menopause, PMS, severe labor activity, late preeclampsia).
Contraindications to the use of the drug are divided into absolute and relative. Only the attending physician can determine the risk of complications.
Absolute contraindications for Valium
These are:
- individual intolerance to the components of the drug;
- a history of acute intoxication with drugs that depress the functioning of the brain (psychotropic, hypnotic, antiepileptic);
- myasthenia gravis;
- acute pathologies of the respiratory apparatus, accompanied by the development of respiratory failure;
- angle-closure glaucoma;
- hypertrophy of the pancreas;
- glucose malabsorption, lactase deficiency, lactose intolerance;
- early age up to 1 month of life for the injection form and up to 6 years for the tablet form;
- the period of pregnancy (especially the first and third trimester) and breastfeeding;
- in a coma or shock;
with acute alcohol intoxication with a threat to the functioning of body systems.