Relieving pain during teething (Viburkol - suppositories for children). Instructions for use. Indications and contraindications

What is the drug "Viburkol"?

Viburkol is a suppository that has anti-inflammatory, soothing and antipyretic effects. They are mainly used by children, but sometimes pregnant women also take them.

The composition of one candle is as follows:

• pharmaceutical camomile;
• large plantain;
• belladonna or belladonna;
• meadow lumbago;
• bittersweet nightshade;
• calcium carbonate.

All of the above components are taken in homeopathic dilution, and inert pharmacologically solid fat is used as a basis. Since the fat base can melt at a temperature similar to body temperature, it is recommended to store the drug in the refrigerator or other place, and the air temperature should not exceed +25 ° C.

The homeopathic drug Viburkol helps ease teething in the baby

Symptoms of vitamin deficiency

A lack of certain vitamins can lead to decreased immunity.

Hypovitaminosis, as a rule, has nonspecific symptoms. These include: increased fatigue, decreased body defenses, weakness, lethargy. Vitamin deficiencies have more specific (certain) symptoms. We will not dwell on each vitamin deficiency in more detail, but will only consider vitamins, the lack of which can lead to a decrease in immunity.

These include:

• Vitamin A . Its deficiency is manifested by damage to the eyes, skin, and increased susceptibility to infections.
• Vitamins of group B6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxal). A lack of these substances can lead to dermatitis, lymphopenia (decreased levels of immune cells), anemia, and convulsions.
• Biotin . A deficiency of this substance can lead to seborrhea, hair loss, and deterioration of the immune system.
• Vitamin C . A lack of vitamin C leads to increased fragility of blood vessels, fatigue, pain in the limbs, tooth loss, poor wound healing, and increased susceptibility to infections.
• Vitamin D . A lack of vitamin D leads to the development of rickets in the baby, which is also accompanied by a decrease in immunity and an increase in the overall morbidity of the baby.

Instructions for using "Viburkol"

Viburkol suppositories are used rectally. If you look at the candle more closely, you can see that it is slightly pointed at one end, and at the opposite end it has a small funnel-shaped depression. This form makes it easier to administer the drug.

We place the pad of the index finger in the recess, and with the thumb and middle finger we cover the candle in both directions. Gently spread the child’s buttocks with the other hand and in one movement quickly insert the candle into the anus forward with the pointed end. The drug must enter completely.

Sometimes the baby's buttocks are squeezed a little so that he cannot push the drug out. If everything is done correctly, then the baby will not feel any discomfort from such a procedure.

Features of the drug use

Viburcol should be used in the evening, before bedtime or in the morning, until the child begins to be actively awake. This is explained by the fact that for the best absorption of the medicine from the intestines, the baby needs to be in a supine position for some time. If you don’t do this, some of the medicine liquefied by the heat will leak out.

Absorption of a substance in the intestine is always more effective than the action of the same component when it enters the stomach and then into the blood, therefore the effect manifests itself faster. Viburkol is often prescribed to children after one year, one suppository once or twice a day , since the painful condition is very individual and sometimes manifests itself at an older age.

How often can Viburkol be used?

Children under six months of age are not recommended to use more than two suppositories per day, so there should be a gap of at least 12 hours between doses.

For children after 6 months, the dose can be increased, if necessary, to 4-6 suppositories per day. If the baby's body temperature is low-grade (and this is most often observed during teething), Viburkol is recommended to be used every 6 hours. At very high levels (more than 38° C), we increase the frequency of taking the medicine to 6 times a day (every 4 hours) and be sure to call a doctor.

In what cases is Viburkol indicated?

• Most often, the drug is prescribed by a pediatrician, but you can use this medicine yourself if your baby is teething:
• is capricious and restless;
• is in pain;
• cannot fall asleep on time;
• Constantly pulls hands towards the temple, cheek or ear - this may indicate the presence of an inflammatory process that radiates to the ear.

Be sure to use Viburkol if your child has a fever.

What other drugs can be used for teething.

To date, there are no drugs similar to Viburkol. But there are many alternative medicines that have proven themselves no worse:

• drugs based on paracetamol - Panadol, Cefekon, Efferalgan, etc.;
• ibuprofen-based products - Ibufen, Nurofen;
• local gels with an anesthetic effect - Dentinox, Kamistad, Dentol.

The first two groups of drugs have antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and moderate analgesic effects. Children's release forms - syrups and suppositories.

If the baby has regurgitation or vomiting when the temperature rises, it is better to use suppositories.

Gels for topical use are applied to the inflamed gum. They have an analgesic effect due to the content of lidocaine in their composition and an anti-inflammatory effect due to chamomile and extracts of other plants. But lidocaine is not advisable to use in pediatric dentistry. Since it “freezes” the gums, the result is:

• the child becomes even more excited because all this is a new sensation for him, which causes anxiety;
• as a result of such anesthesia, salivation increases, which causes additional discomfort for the baby;

That is why such gels should be used if there is no desired effect as a result of using a proven drug.

Important! If the doctor advises using the medicine 4 times a day, this means that you can, for example, give the syrup twice and administer the suppository twice. But under no circumstances should the dose be duplicated!

Candles for children Viburkol - reviews

metamorfose
https://otzovik.com/review_2831952.html

Advantages:

• Plant composition
• There were no allergic reactions

Flaws:

• Rough surface, making it difficult to remove from the package and place it on the child
• Zero effect
• Price

We purchased these candles before the birth of our daughter, when we were collecting a first aid kit for a newborn. One of my friends highly recommended this drug as the one that should always be in a child’s medicine cabinet. After talking with her, I went online and read reviews. I must say that the reviews were very contradictory. Some write that this is all a scam and pure fraud, others - that this is simply a vital drug, others - that these suppositories are neither hot nor cold, but as they say, no one has yet canceled the “placebo” effect)

But nevertheless, I listened to my friend and decided to buy these candles. These suppositories lay idle for a year, since our daughter was not sick at all until she was one year old, and, thank God, we did not have any particularly violent reactions to the vaccinations. But at the end of October 2015, we caught ARVI and, of course, there was a fever. And then I remembered about these same candles.

The package contains 12 candles. The candles themselves feel somewhat rough to the touch and don’t slide, which I didn’t like anymore. This roughness makes it quite difficult to remove them from the packaging.

And what did we get as a result of using this drug? According to the instructions, with symptoms of acute respiratory viral infection and the eruption of baby teeth for children from 6 months. It is permissible to use up to 6 suppositories per day at a temperature above 38. In our case, even after these same 6 suppositories, the temperature remained 38.5 until the evening, until my daughter was given Tsefekon suppositories.

Many also write that these suppositories caused allergic reactions in children. Thank God we didn't have that.

Conclusion:

Definitely not recommended! In my opinion, it is better to use conventional, proven children’s remedies to lower fever and relieve pain than to conduct such experiments. Perhaps these suppositories have their effectiveness, but as part of complex therapy. But they are not effective as an independent medicinal drug. At least in our case.

zhozhka

https://otzovik.com/review_1261227.html

Advantages:

• Didn't find it

Flaws:

• This is homeopathy

While scrolling through my friends’ feeds, over the past few days I have read several reviews about Viburkol suppositories.

I also want to speak out about this drug. Our first pediatrician recommended these suppositories, when our eldest daughter was a baby. Recommendations for use concerned two points - the use of suppositories after vaccination as an antipyretic and during teething as a pain reliever.

Then, due to my youth and my maternal inexperience, I blindly followed all the instructions and prescriptions of the doctors. We wrote it out, so we’ll use it. Nowadays I “use my brain” more often and after each visit to the doctor I carefully study the instructions for the new drug on the Internet, and then I buy it or use “proven” remedies.

Well, regarding Viburkol. This is a homeopathic medicine. Available in the form of rectal suppositories. The composition is ala natural - some herbs (chamomile, belladonna, nightshade, plantain, sleep grass), calcium carbonate and fat.

At first glance, there is nothing criminal. But the effect of some herbs on the body is confusing. Okay, chamomile - I love it very much, children enjoy drinking chamomile tea and gargling with it for sore throats. But, for example, nightshade causes inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract, the membranes of the respiratory and genitourinary systems, and can cause excessive salivation and convulsions. Here homeopaths say that if a certain substance has a negative effect on the body, then small doses of this substance have the opposite effect.

I don’t really understand these “infinitesimal doses” of medicine, which are repeatedly diluted with water, thereby supposedly charging it (the water) with the energies of the diluted substance.

Also, one of the postulates of homeopathy is to treat not the disease as such, but the specific patient, taking into account his eye color, hair color and body constitution. Somehow, the mass production of homeopathic remedies, which are now widely available in pharmacies, does not fit in well with such targeted individual treatment. Maybe Viburkol helps brown-eyed brunettes?:)

I used suppositories for the first time after DTP vaccination. The doctor recommended inserting a suppository at night without waiting for the temperature to rise. Supposedly this way the body will tolerate the vaccine more easily. I remember then Viburkol did not lower our temperature, we used Cefekon. With my second child after vaccination, I don’t use antipyretics at all, because in the current worldview I don’t understand why interfere with the development of immunity by lowering the temperature. Children do not suffer from seizures, so we alleviate the condition with bed rest, drinking plenty of fluids and wiping the body with warm water. This does not apply to unbreakable temperatures above 40 degrees; in such moments, I tremble violently and call an ambulance, or take Nimulid.

As for teeth, I didn’t use candles when teething. There were restless nights - we coped with topical gels, such as Kamistad, Kalgel... Therefore, I can’t say anything about the pain-relieving effect of the suppositories.

Recently I was sorting out the first aid kit here and found this Viburkol, which had already expired. I threw it away without regret, because I don’t see the point in this drug.

In conclusion, what I want to say is that I have a negative attitude towards mass-produced homeopathic medicines, and towards homeopathy itself as a method of non-traditional treatment - with suspicion and distrust. I know one mother who went to “bow” to a homeopath simply out of despair, when the child simply did not get out of severe ARVI and other infections. They drank something every 2 hours, a bunch of medicine in the form of sweet balls. The child generally stopped getting sick. But maybe he just “outgrew” all these sores???

Irina-777-irina

https://otzovik.com/review_5052275.html

Advantages:

• Safe composition.

Flaws:

• Expensive
• ineffective
• itching

Virbucol was prescribed to us by our pediatrician at an appointment when we complained of a cough in our 5 month old baby. The cough turned out to be excessive salivation.

The drug itself is safe for children, but useless, just as chamomile is useless in treating diarrhea. I am a supporter of Dr. Komarovsky; at the moment, all his recommendations have never let us down.

But here’s the question: when such drugs are prescribed, we rely on the doctor, shifting responsibility onto him! And the doctor’s goal is to support the sale of unnecessary drugs.

IMPORTANT! If your goal is to bring down the temperature and not to cause itching in the baby’s bottom, do not light candles. And it doesn’t matter which ones! If the temperature is very high, you need to act quickly and only oral ingestion of an antipyretic can help. In my opinion, ibuprofen is more effective than paracetamol.

Now about the teeth. My baby didn't sleep well until he was 11 months old for a single night. It was hell, and some days were better, some were worse. And every time I sinned on my teeth. But the teeth cannot be disturbed constantly, a maximum of 2-3 days of the acute period. After 11 months, we turned to sleepexpets, and lo and behold, the baby sleeps all night. And at most, when the teeth are cutting, the child will wake up, cry and fall asleep. I concluded that teeth do not affect sleep as much as bad habits (constant rocking, pacifier, etc.)

During daytime naps, I lubricate my gums with gel (when they are cutting). At night, I don’t smear anything, since the duration of action of gels is 1 hour maximum. Got distracted!

So, Virbucol suppositories are needed not by the baby, but by the mother, as an element of help. I did something. In my opinion, paying 500-600 for chamomile is nonsense.

Pharmaceutical companies profit from our ignorance, and we are desperate, ready to do anything.

pavelxxx21

https://irecommend.ru/content/ne-pomoglo-15

Flaws:

• Expensive
• Does not help

We were prescribed this drug when we were vaccinated, as if for the future for post-immunization. To be honest, when we bought it we were dumbfounded by its cost. The first time we used it was when the child was teething, had a runny nose and was acting very capricious. there was no effect. Then they gave me more when my throat hurt and I had a fever. also had no effect. so what I can say about this medicine is that it is very expensive and ineffective. By the way, our pediatrician prescribes it to all children. and when I asked her how it works, the pediatrician told us that she didn’t really know. They allegedly brought her a brochure, so she prescribes it to everyone, they say there are no contraindications, so everyone can do it.

mom Karina

https://irecommend.ru/content/effekt-mozhet-byt-sovershenno-protivopozhnyi

Flaws:

• Does not help

These candles did not help us at all!!! rather the opposite!!! For the first time since the maternity hospital, my daughter and I didn’t sleep almost the whole night!!! She cried terribly, I no longer knew what to give her, just to make her feel better!!! I, too, on the advice of a doctor, bought these suppositories, and I read everything about them on the Internet, I was sure that since they were homeopathic, they were not harmful and would ease the suffering of my daughter (our teething is very painful). I put it in overnight and immediately regretted it. After 1.5 hours she woke up and screamed until the morning!!! We used to sleep restlessly, but at least we slept!!! and in the morning her butt was all red!!! I never used this Viburkol again. I only save myself with Nurofen and Kamistad. I do not exclude individual intolerance, I am sure that they help many people, otherwise doctors would not recommend them, I just want to warn mothers that there may be a completely different reaction!!! keep in mind!!! The baby suffered all night, and his bottom is red for the third day!

Contraindications to the use of homeopathic suppositories and their side effects

To date, no side effects of Viburkol suppositories have been described. The only thing that may occur is an allergic reaction to one of the components of the drug.

For the same reason, it is better to refrain from using it if there is a suspicion that the child has hypersensitivity to the active substances that are part of the drug or to its base.

It is not recommended to use Viburkol for a long time at elevated temperatures. Often, malaise may occur not due to teething, but to infection, and in this case, treatment should be prescribed by a pediatrician. But you can put a candle in order to alleviate the child’s condition before being examined by a doctor.

Teething

A child's first teeth appear around 6–9 months of age in the first year of life. But the individual characteristics of the body can adjust this schedule, and milk teeth will break through the gums at an earlier period or will begin to bother the baby only closer to the age of one. Do not be alarmed by such changes; the delay in the appearance of teeth is not a pathology. The first tooth is considered the most painful and difficult, but it happens that its appearance may go unnoticed; parents will discover it only at the moment when it begins to knock on the spoon when feeding.

Fever

If the baby’s body temperature has risen, he behaves restlessly and the mother is sure that this is due to teething, then it is worth taking the following actions:

• to make sure there is a connection between tooth eruption and the painful condition, they invite a doctor who will accurately determine the cause of the ailment;
• stop worrying, gain patience and monitor the child’s condition; sometimes the temperature to 38º should not be reduced at all in order to give the body an excellent opportunity to fight the malaise on its own;
• when the temperature rises, the protective substance interferon begins to be produced in the body, and microbes and viruses lose their vital functions due to this, so it is better to be patient and not cool the body;
• since the child’s nervous system needs a night’s rest, the temperature should be lowered in the evening before bed;
• If, while monitoring the baby’s condition, the mother notices convulsions and spasms, then the high temperature should be brought down immediately, for this purpose viburkol is used.

Main causes of illness

The process of the appearance of the first and subsequent teeth is not an easy test for parents , since the baby behaves unusually restlessly, cries, often wakes up at night and reacts sharply to the uncomfortable condition of the gums:

• the whims of a small person are a sign of a very unusual condition for him, when a tooth cuts through the gum, and at the same time, strong heat, itching and unpleasant pain are felt at the site of the wound;
• the risk of infectious diseases and colds increases, since inflammatory processes in the oral cavity reduce the baby’s immunity;
• in the place where a wound appears on the gum, the body produces a large amount of saliva with bactericidal properties, which inhibits inflammation;
• bowel dysfunction, the appearance of dyspepsia may be associated with the penetration of infection through the oral cavity, where the child takes any objects that come across, fingers, in order to instinctively reduce pain symptoms and relieve itching;
• Itchy gums lead to loss of appetite; saliva produced irritates the skin of the cheek, neck and beard.

How quickly will Viburkol act?

It all depends on the desired effect. If the baby cries or is capricious, then a slight calming effect can be achieved 30-40 minutes after taking the drug. The child will calm down and may even fall asleep if all this happened during the natural sleep cycle.

If you need to relieve pain and relieve inflammation, you need to take the drug regularly in order to create a cumulative effect at least twice a day.

To normalize body temperature with the help of Viburkol suppositories, it is hardly possible to do without the use of ibuprofen or paracetamol. The active substances are completely absorbed from the suppository within 10-20 minutes from the moment of administration.

Thus, the use of the homeopathic drug Viburkol for teething in children is completely justified and advisable. But if the body temperature is very high and does not decrease, you should definitely consult a doctor and rule out the possibility of developing other diseases or use stronger medications.

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Vitamins and their role in immunity

Vitamins are substances necessary for normal life, the formation of which in the body is absent or very limited. Basically, the source of these substances in children is food and intestinal bacteria, which are also capable of forming them.

They have their own characteristics:

• They are not included in the structure of the baby’s organs and tissues.
• Not used by the body as a source of energy.

Depending on their ability to dissolve in water or fat, vitamins are divided into two large groups:

1. Fat soluble . These include vitamins A, D, E, K, as well as vitamin-like substances - ubiquinone (vitamin Q), essential fatty acids (vitamin F).
2. Water soluble . These include vitamins B, H, C, vitamin-like substances - choline, lipoic acid, carnitine, orotic acid and others.

Unfortunately, there are reasons that can lead to a decrease in the level of these substances in the body. This problem has a medical name - hypo- and avitaminosis.

Causes of hypo- and avitaminosis:

• Impact of environmental factors.
• Poor nutrition.
• Malabsorption.
• High need (for example, in premature infants and during puberty).
• Liver diseases.
• Increased breakdown of vitamins.
• Damage to intestinal microflora. You can find out more about this problem in our article.