Indispensable Medicines: The Analgesic

They are medicines that are in charge to control or to calm slight painful sensations, moderate or intense that frequently is reason for malaise. They have the capacity to alleviate pains produced by blows, wounds, fever, twists, burns or when they are symptom of some suffering, like bronchitis, influenza or resfriado, among others.

The treatment of the pain includes two types of analgesic: opiate (narcotic, they cannot be treated) and no opiate (acid acetylsalicylic, Ibuprofeno, Dipirona and Paracetamol, of free access). There are other substances that although are not analgesic, have the property to alleviate or to calm the pain, among them are the Naproxeno (anti-inflammatory), Benzocaína and Lidocaína (anesthetic) and the caffeine (stimulating that increases the effects of an analgesic one).

The opiate ones are characterized to exert a very fast action on receivers of the nervous system and to be effective to control intense and chronic pains, for example, the one that produces the cancer.

Within the group of the no opiate ones drugs exist that have analgesic properties, antipyretics and anti-inflammatory, and have double action: on the one hand, prostaglandins block a group of called substances, that when interacting among them are, partly, people in charge of the pain sensation. Secondly, they reduce to the inflammation and irritation that frequently surround to an injury, like hurt or blows.

Acid Acetylsalicylic
Alleviate pains, low the fever and desinflama injured zones. However, it has irritant effect on the mucosa of the stomach, reason why he is recommendable that people with gastritis or ulcer avoid.

Paracetamol
He is useful to alleviate headaches, dental and rheumatic, in addition of which it lowers the fever, but it does not have anti-inflammatory properties. Nevertheless, it is an alternative for the patients with stomach upheavals because it does not damage to the stomach.

Dipirona
One is a drug with analgesic properties, antipyretics and, to a lesser extent, anti-inflammatory.

Ibuprofeno
At first it was used like anti-inflammatory, specifically to treat diseases you will articulate. Now one knows that it has analgesic and antipyretics properties.

Naproxeno
It is a useful substance to control the pain that takes place because of inflammation caused by arthritis, reumas, menstruation, migraine, excessive sport practice, blows, twists or tears. He is not recommendable that consumes people who undergo upheavals in the digestive apparatus, like gastritis, ulcer or colitis, since she irritates the mucosa of the stomach.

Benzocaína
It is the anesthetic premises that have the property to calm the pain inducing sleep the zone where an injury appears. It acts of superficial form, because it is not introduced to the interior of weaves, reason why is not solely effective to alleviate pains caused by inflammation. It is applied mainly on buccal wounds, injuries and prurito.

Lidocaína
Anesthetic that induces sleeps the pain per short periods. It is effective in surgical processes when it is combined with other substances that prolong their effect.

Caffeine
One is a substance that stimulates to the central nervous system, whose action consists of diminishing the fatigue and improving the alert status. It is common to find it in combination with some analgesic ones, like acetylsalicylic acid, since thus it fortifies his effect against the pain.

The indiscriminate use of this type of medicines must be avoided, because its action could hide the real gravity of injuries; for example, if intense headaches are diminished constantly, the possibility that exists a problem of migraine is ignored.

On the other hand, when one is going away to take an analgesic one is very important to have some precautions:

• It always must be administered with water, never with coffee, refreshment or spirits because undesirable effects can take place, for example, damages to the liver.
• The people with stomach upheavals, like gastritis, colitis or ulcers must take those that are inoffensive with the mucosa of the stomach, like Paracetamol.
• They do not have to take them embarrassed women, since its action can damage the coagulation mechanism of the blood of the baby.
• They must avoid them the people with allergy antecedents and those that have problems in kidneys.
• The children who suffer chicken pox or influenza do not have to take acetylsalicylic acid, because it is related to the appearance of the syndrome of Reye (disease that is generated after a viral infection that it damages to the brain, liver and kidneys, that are characterized by continuous vomits, loss of energy, irritability, difficulty to recognize the members of the family and convulsions). In these cases he must consult itself to the doctor so that he prescribes a special drug that alleviates the pain.
• Because at any time pain can be suffered, it recommends itself to have analgesic, as much for children as for adults, in the medicine kit of first aid.

Autor: Hidrocodone Para Dolores.

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