Very many women with certain gynecological problems, doctors prescribe a drug as djufaston. Instructions for use of this medication contains complete information on indications, contraindications and side effects duphaston so neglected reading this instruction in any case should not be.

Who needs djufaston

Duphaston is a hormonal drug containing dydrogesterone - analogue of the female hormone progesterone. Like other hormones, djufaston appoint a doctor, and only the results of tests. The drug is indicated for a number of conditions where there is a natural progesterone deficiency in the body.

In particular, effective treatments for endometriosis djufaston; infertility, caused by luteal insufficiency; threatened miscarriage on the background of the established lack of progesterone. The indications are also: habitual miscarriage due to a shortage of progesterone; premenstrual syndrome; irregular menstruation; dysfunctional uterine bleeding; dysmenorrhea; secondary amenorrhea Amenorrhea - if you do not come monthly   (absence of menstruation).

Djufaston also used as part of hormone replacement therapy in women with disorders arising due to natural menopause or surgical origin in an intact uterus.

Contraindications

Duphaston should not be taken in case of hypersensitivity to dydrogesterone or other components of the drug (as excipients in the drug includes lactose monohydrate, magnesium stearate, maize starch, colloidal silicon dioxide). If during a previous pregnancy, a woman suffered from itching, then it is necessary to tell the gynecologist - in such cases the use of the drug should be under the supervision of a physician. The drug is contraindicated in certain diseases of the liver Liver disease: when the natural filter faltering For example, Rotor syndrome and Dubin-Johnson.

In addition, djufaston caution should be applied in a number of diseases. Despite the fact that to date there is no evidence of a negative duphaston merger on the condition of women with chronic renal failure treatment in this case must be carried out with caution.

During pregnancy, the drug can be applied if there is evidence to the reception. During the period of lactation duphaston have to give up, because the hormones are excreted in breast milk and can act on a child.

Side effects

Side effects observed relatively rarely. If they are severe enough, it is recommended sure to tell your doctor who prescribed the drug. From the hematopoietic system in a few cases possible hemolytic anemia. On the part of the central nervous system can not exclude the headache or migraine. In very rare cases, it may be a hypersensitivity reaction by the immune system.

Very rarely drug leads to peripheral edema. In very rare cases, the drug leads to minor violations of the liver, which may be accompanied by weakness, jaundice and pain. Against the background of the drug may cause itching, rash, urticaria, angioedema rarely. Reproductive system may be relatively rare breakthrough bleeding, which prevents increasing doses of the drug. It is also possible to increase the sensitivity of the mammary glands.

How to use the drug

The scheme depends on the application, namely for the treatment of disease using a drug. In endometriosis djufaston drink two or three times a day for ten milligrams (one tablet). To consume the drug should be permanently or from the fifth to the twenty-fifth day of the menstrual cycle, inclusive.

When threatened abortion take four tablets at a time, followed by a drink one tablet three times a day (every eight hours) until symptoms disappear. When habitual miscarriage regimen is different: before the twentieth week of pregnancy, one tablet twice a day, after the dose is gradually reduced.

When infertility caused by luteal insufficiency, djufaston take one tablet a day from the fourteenth to the twenty-fifth day of the cycle. Treatment should be carried out for at least six months without interruption, if pregnancy occurs djufaston encouraged to continue to take, as in habitual abortion: one tablet twice a day until the twentieth week, inclusive, then the dose is gradually reduced.

Severe premenstrual syndrome is treated by taking duphaston twice daily one tablet from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth day of the cycle, inclusive. The same scheme should take the drug in the case of irregular menstruation.

When dysmenorrhea djufaston should be taken from the fifth to the twenty-fifth day of the cycle two times a day for ten milligrams. When amenorrhea djufaston drink from eleventh on the twenty-fifth day of the cycle twice daily one tablet. Additionally, for treating amenorrhea used estrogens, once a day from the first day of the cycle and ending twenty fifth day.

When dysfunctional uterine bleeding to stop bleeding djufaston should drink twice a day, one pill for five days - a week. To prevent bleeding, the drug is taken daily from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth day of the cycle twice daily one tablet.

As part of hormone replacement therapy djufaston Djufaston: Assistant desperate   taken depending on estrogen regimens. With continuous estrogens - once daily for fourteen days of each cycle; in cyclical pattern - one tablet once a day for posledniyh twelve or fourteen days of estrogen.

Maria Bykov

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