Flucostat for thrush: how to take it, what side effects to expect, and what else it is used for - all this can be found in the instructions for use. It has been proven that in 91% of cases the drug is tolerated without adverse reactions. It has earned popularity in the pharmaceutical market because it copes well not only with thrush, but also with other fungal diseases.
The method of using the drug is very simple - if the disease manifests itself no more than 3 times a year, only 1 capsule is taken. If thrush recurs more than 4 times, take one capsule on days 1, 4 and 7. Just remember that the medicine is available in several dosages.
What is thrush
Content
The official name of the disease is vaginal candidiasis. Candida fungi multiply in large numbers on the mucous membranes of the vagina, causing the following symptoms:
- • curdled discharge;
- • itching in the perineum;
- • burning and pain when going to the toilet.
Candida is one of the “normal” representatives of the vaginal microflora, but when immunity decreases, this genus of fungi begins to multiply intensively, which causes the disease.
By the way, read more on this topic: Antifungal drugs are inexpensive but effective
Indications for use
The most common situation for which many people run for antifungal drugs is thrush. It is mainly caused by a fungus of the genus Candida.
Other diseases that capsules successfully fight:
- Infectious diseases caused by cryptococci. The central nervous system, meninges, lungs, skin and mucous membranes may be affected. The drug is also used as a prophylaxis for these diseases in people with AIDS.
- Damage to internal organs by Candida fungi.
- Candidiasis of the mucous membranes of the mouth, pharynx, vagina.
- Inflammation of the glans penis caused by Candida.
- Fungal diseases of smooth skin, feet, groin area, etc.
The drug is also used as a prophylaxis for fungal infections in people with malignant tumors who are undergoing chemotherapy.
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Flucostat: instructions for use for thrush
Before using the drug, you need to make sure that the symptoms are due to thrush. There are a number of vaginal diseases that have a similar course, but in their case Flucostat tablets may not work.
The maximum concentration in the blood is detected 30-90 minutes after the first dose. It is from this moment that the effect of the medicine begins.
Flucostat: use for thrush in women
If symptoms of the disease occur very rarely (no more than 3 times a year), you can get by with a single use of the drug. It is better to take a 150 mg capsule after meals to reduce the effect on the stomach. Food does not affect the absorption and effect of fluconazole.
If thrush appears more than 4 times a year, the following treatment regimen is used: on days 1, 4 and 7, take 1 capsule of 150 mg. The course will require 2 packages of the drug: with 1 and 2 capsules inside.
To avoid relapses, the doctor may prescribe the drug 1 capsule 150 mg per month. The duration of the course is determined by a specialist.
Flucostat: instructions for use for men
During treatment of a woman, a man should also take the drug. At any time he needs to drink only 1 capsule of the drug at a dosage of 150 mg.
Flucostat for children
In children, thrush most often appears in the mouth. The drug is approved for use from 3 years of age. The dose is calculated as 3 mg per 1 kg of body per day. Only a doctor should make a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment regimen.
Benefits of treatment
- With timely diagnosis of the disease, a one-time dose is sufficient.
- Ease of use. Flucostat helps a woman feel free, because she can take tablets or capsules at a convenient time and only once a day, during, before or after meals.
- The action of Flucostat extends to the entire body.
- Quick effect after taking the drug.
- The action begins two hours after the start of treatment.
- The instructions help clarify the composition of the drug, who can take it and when.
- Both capsules and tablets are used against thrush, and suppositories can be used.
Recently, treatment with capsules has become most popular, but sometimes they still take pills or use vaginal suppositories. When using other means, the duration of treatment increases. The use of Flucostat significantly makes a woman’s life easier and speeds up the healing process.
It should also be noted that with the help of Flucostat, men can also be treated when signs of candidal balanitis appear. It is expressed in the appearance of a white coating on the head of the penis and most often appears if the partner has a chronic form of thrush. When you contact a specialist and receive a diagnosis called urogenital candidiasis, you can immediately begin treatment. Dosage for men – one Flucostat tablet 150 ml. Usually this is enough for the symptoms of the disease to disappear and recovery, if candidiasis does not have a chronic or latent form. In these cases, it is necessary to consult a specialist and not self-medicate.
A significant advantage is the price of the drug and availability of purchase. Flucostat can be purchased at a pharmacy without a prescription.
Flucostat: side effects, contraindications
Before using the medicine yourself, you should carefully study the sections of the instructions that indicate the conditions under which you should not take it at all, and the negative consequences of taking it.
Side effects:
- From the gastrointestinal tract. The most common are nausea and vomiting. Changes in taste, diarrhea, bloating, and abdominal pain may occur. All reactions are reversible. Complications to the liver very rarely occur; this is usually due to its unhealthy state before admission: dysfunction of its functions, jaundice, hepatitis, changes in laboratory parameters, etc. In such cases, you should immediately go to the doctor!
- From the nervous system. Headaches and dizziness.
- Allergic reactions. Skin rash and itching.
- From the side of the heart and blood vessels. Ventricular fibrillation and flutter is a fast heart rate only in the upper or lower chambers of the heart, which is accompanied by a drop in pressure and possible loss of consciousness.
- Other. Hair loss, kidney dysfunction, increased blood cholesterol, potassium excretion.
Some adverse reactions go away on their own and do not require discontinuation of the drug, but others are extremely dangerous for the patient! Although Flucostat capsules are over-the-counter, you should not take them yourself if you have health problems.
Contraindications:
- • individual intolerance to any component;
- • age up to 3 years;
- • breastfeeding period;
- • renal and liver failure;
- • alcoholism.
During pregnancy, only a doctor can prescribe the drug!
Medicines and substances that should not be taken simultaneously with fluconazole:
- • terfenadine or astemizole – they are blockers of h1-histamine receptors; when used simultaneously with Flucostat, they can prolong the QT interval, which is very dangerous;
- • medications toxic to the liver (many groups of antibiotics, paracetamol, aspirin, diclofenac, etc.);
- • ethanol.
Special instructions for use
The drug should be taken under the supervision of a physician if the patient is simultaneously taking:
- Warfarin. Combination with fluconazole will increase the duration of blood clotting.
- Antihistamines. There is a risk of developing psychomotor effects.
- Drugs to reduce sugar. Hypoglycemia may occur.
Treatment of candidiasis with Flucostat should not be combined with drinking alcohol. Drinking alcohol increases the load on the liver, which will increase the likelihood of side effects.
Flucostat: cheap analogues
The most budget-friendly analogues are capsules produced by the following companies under the name of the active substance:
- • Vertex;
- • Teva;
- • Stada;
- • Ozone;
- • Promed;
- • Biocom;
- • Obolenskoe;
- • Kanonpharma;
- • Medisorb, etc.
The drugs are more expensive, but with higher quality raw materials:
- • Diflucan (original product);
- • Mikosist;
- • Mycomax.
Flucostat: reviews for thrush in women
Marina Nikolaevna, 58 years old, Moscow:
I always took regular fluconazole, a cheap analogue of Flucostat for thrush, but it didn’t last long. But it's budget-friendly. Recently I began to notice that my health had deteriorated: my kidneys and heart were acting up. The doctor said that it was all because of the antifungal medications that I take too often. He prescribed Flucostat and insisted that I buy it. I took the prescribed course and, lo and behold, thrush has not appeared for six months! It was in vain that I poisoned myself for so many years with cheap drugs.
Inna, 29 years old, Murmansk:
I never understood: Flucostat and fluconazole - what is the difference? The active ingredient is the same. I always drank whatever was cheaper. But one day I went to see a smart gynecologist, and he explained to me that the first drug was much better and more effective. I decided to try it, it’s not that expensive. I was very surprised when I realized that I had not observed symptoms of thrush for several months. I usually have it once every 2 months. And the doctor also explained to me that my partner also needs to take a capsule once so that I don’t suffer every time.
Release forms, composition, price
Available in the form of a parenteral solution and capsules.
The main active ingredient is fluconazole. Transparent, odorless, for infusions (injections) in clear glass bottles with holders. Each with a capacity of 50 ml, packed in a cardboard box.
The price of 2 mg/ml 50 ml is about 220 rubles.
Capsules
Opaque, pink in color (interspersed with gray are acceptable) with the contents in the form of a white or yellowish fine powder. Packed in blisters (contour cells) and cardboard boxes.
Price 1 (150 mg) from 175 rub. (manufacturer Masterlek) up to 195 (Pharmstandard-Leksredstva) on average.
Average price 2 pcs. – 340–375.
7 pcs. 50 mg each cost 290–330.
The cost of Flucostat largely depends on the form of release and the state where it is purchased. For example, in Ukraine, in Kharkov, the price of Flucostat tablets is 27 hryvnia, and the cost of candles is cheaper – 10-15 hryvnia.
In Russia, the cost is related to the dosage, for example, the price of Flucostat 150 mg is around 350 rubles, and 50 mg tablets of an antifungal agent can be purchased for 270 rubles.
The price of Flucostat in other neighboring countries depends on the exchange rate of the relevant state, since competition for the import of pharmaceutical goods is relevant far beyond the borders of the countries of the Customs Union.
If we look in more detail, in Belarus a 150 mg pill is purchased for a cost of 10-40 thousand rubles, translated into hryvnia, the price is identical to the cost of the medicine in Kharkov, and the price of ointment in the Republic of Kazakhstan corresponds to the cost of the same ointment in Omsk.
Flucostat for thrush is available in various forms:
- capsules - 50, 100, 150 mg;
- injection;
- suspension.
Most often they prefer to use 150 mg capsules. Rarely, but also successfully used solution for intravenous injection.
In addition, the active substance of the drug - fluconazole - is the basis for the manufacture of various drugs analogous to Flucostat that are widely used for treatment, such as:
- Russian Fluconazole;
- French Diflucan;
- Indian Fucis and Forkan;
- Slovenian Diflazon.
Although the drugs have different names, they have the same active ingredient.
Which is better for thrush: Diflucan or Flucostat
Original drugs are always considered more effective and safer than analogues. Diflucan has been used for the treatment of thrush since 1990, and all preclinical and clinical studies were conducted on it for several years before it was released onto the pharmaceutical market.
Its cost is higher than other similar drugs, but the result, as patients note, is better. In the case of this medicine, the question does not arise: “How should I take it - before or after meals?”, it is drunk regardless of it, because food does not affect the absorption of the substance.
Pharmacological properties
Flucostat is an antimycotic drug that is a generic version of the popular American drug Diflucan. It shows particular activity against yeast-like fungi - candida. The therapeutic effect is achieved due to the main component - fluconazole. This is a worthy representative of triazole antimycotics.
Flucostat has a fungostatic (prevents the fungus from growing and multiplying) and fungicidal (the fungal cell dies) effect. Due to this, the root cause of thrush is eliminated. Flucostat has a systemic effect because it provides high levels of fluconazole in almost all tissues, media and reservoirs of the body.
After ingestion of Flucostat, a concentration of fluconazole is created that is several times higher than necessary to suppress the activity and death of fungi. This ensures the reliability of the therapeutic effect, and the risk of early relapse is minimized.
The drug reaches its maximum amount in the blood plasma 30-90 minutes after oral administration. Flucostat can be taken with food, as this does not slow down the absorption of the active substance. Plasma concentration is directly proportional to the dose taken. The serum concentration of the substance is reduced by half within 30 hours. Fluconazole is excreted primarily through the urinary system.
“After oral administration of Flucostat, the concentration of the antifungal substance necessary for the therapeutic effect is created not only in the walls of the vagina, but also in the discharge from it.”
Which is better: Flucostat or Fluconazole - which is better?
First of all, you need to understand that Flucostat contains fluconazole. But drugs from different companies are not always equal in effect. How can it be? If the manufacturer does not purify the raw materials well enough, other substances may enter the body along with them, to which some people are allergic. Flucostat undergoes good purification of raw materials and is produced using the most modern technologies.
In any pharmacy you can go to the pharmacist and ask whether Flucostat is suitable for thrush, how to take it is described in detail in the instructions for the drug, or you can find out all the details you need from a specialist. He also has his own official website, where all the signs of thrush are described and treatment regimens are indicated.
Author: Ketova Yana Dmitrievna doctor (pharmacist)
How should men take the medicine?
Thrush in men is an extremely rare occurrence and can be asymptomatic with subsequent spontaneous outcome. But if local irritation of the mucous membrane of the genital organ is detected with the appearance of a cheesy coating and sour odor, it is necessary to take 1 capsule of Flucostat, and again, again, the next day.
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