The tool restores the electrolyte balance, disrupted by the loss of potassium and magnesium, with diseases, sports, weight loss. Best of all, Asparkam copes with cardiac arrhythmias. Domestic preparation is much cheaper than imported Panangin with the same active substances.

Release forms and composition

Asparkam tablets and solutions with the same name are produced in Russia and Ukraine. The drug in liquid form can be purchased in ampoules of 5, 10, 20 ml. Solutions are intended for droppers and IV injections.

Inorganic components in the body and food products have become common household name - "minerals". Two of them are included in Aspartame in the form of aspartates. These are salts of aspartic (amino succinic) acid. One tablet also contains 175 mg of potassium and magnesium, and thanks to aspraginates their ions are more quickly transported through cell membranes.

K + and Mg2 + from the composition of complex molecules in food and drugs are involved in numerous chemical processes in the body. This role is interconnected with the function of maintaining the ratio of positive and negative particles (electrolyte balance).

Pharmacological action, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics

The tool, which contains K + and Mg2 +, helps to replenish the consumed reserves of ions, restore the balance of electrolytes.What is most valued in medicine is the antiarrhythmic and metabolic effects of Asparkam.

The therapeutic effect of the drug is due to the properties of its main components.

  • K + is a necessary participant in a large number of metabolic reactions, including those involving glycogen and the main energy carrier, ATP.
  • Magnesium is especially important for enzymatic processes.
  • Aspartate is needed for better transport of ions across cell membranes.

With potassium deficiency, a decrease in blood pressure occurs, muscle weakness, arrhythmia, and tachycardia occur.

Hypokalemia negatively affects the work of the heart, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and nervous system. Swelling, constipation or diarrhea, insomnia, depression appear. The effects of magnesium deficiency are also dangerous: muscle cramps, changes in blood pressure.

The active ingredients of the drug are rapidly and completely absorbed in the intestines. K + and Mg2 + are distributed throughout the body. The concentration of these ions in serum becomes maximum after 60 - 120 minutes. The allocation of metabolites occurs with urine, feces, sweat.

What is Asparkam prescribed for

One of the areas of application of the drug is compensation for the lack of Mg2 + and K + in the body. Loss of minerals occurs with vomiting, sweating, with significant physical exertion, taking diuretics and laxatives, starvation. Women need potassium from 1800 to 5200 mg / day (the second figure is an indicator for pregnant women), men - from 2 to 4 thousand. The daily need for magnesium for women is from 300 to 450 mg.

Aspartame, as noted in the instructions for use, helps to make up for the shortage of Mg2 + and K + that has arisen in a sick or healthy body for a variety of reasons.

The tool is used as part of complex therapy:

  • arrhythmias caused by a decrease in K + concentration;
  • chronic heart failure (CHF);
  • decreased myocardial metabolism;
  • acute myocardial infarction (MI);
  • ischemia, including coronary heart disease;
  • states after MI.
  • myasthenia gravis.

Taking "Asparkam" reduces the likelihood of developing significantly "younger" stroke and cerebral infarction. Doctors prescribe the drug along with cardiac glycosides to reduce the negative effects inherent in the latter.

Instructions for use and dosage

Ordinary people are often mistaken about this drug. As a result, Asparkam gained fame as a vitamin and mineral supplement. Today, they use not only patients for self-medication, but also athletes and girls seeking to lose weight through fasting. Not knowing how to take Asparkam can cause great harm to the body. Only a specialist will be able to choose the right dosage, adjust the duration of the course and its repetitions.

Asparkam tablets for oral administration

The manufacturers of this dosage form and doctors recommend drinking 1 to 2 at a time, from 3 to 6 per day, and a maximum of not more than 9 tablets. The course lasts, on average, a month.

Even from school, many remember that metal ions interact with hydrochloric acid. Therefore, you need to drink a tablet “Asparkam” after, and not before or between meals. The acidic environment of the stomach reduces the effectiveness of therapy. Do not crush, chew, or grind tablets in any other way. The medicine is washed down with clean water.

Solution for intravenous injection in ampoules of 5 ml, 10 ml and 20 ml

Asparkam is bred for this method of administration of 20 ml of sterile water intended for injection or glucose (5%). Use at one time 2 ampoules of 5 or 1 with a volume of 10 ml. Injection is carried out slowly (5 ml / min.).

Solution for infusions - "droppers"

The dosage of "Asparkam" for drip administration is 10 or 20 ml (maximum). To dilute the contents of the ampoules (s), 100 or 200 ml of saline or 50 to 200 ml of glucose (5%) are used. They give injections or put “droppers” 1 - 2 times a day for 5 days. If necessary, the doctor prescribes a second course.

During pregnancy and lactation

There is no information about the negative effect of the drug on the fetus and child.The drug can be prescribed to a pregnant or breast-feeding woman in case of hypokalemia, as well as with severe prolonged vomiting, diarrhea.

First, the doctor decides whether the expected benefit to the mother is higher than the potential risk to the development of the fetus / child. The greatest caution is required in the first trimester of pregnancy, when the systems of the future organism are laid.

Drug Interactions and Alcohol Compatibility

  • Magnesium reduces the effectiveness of treatment with polymyxin, neomycin, streptomycin, tetracycline.
  • In addition, Asparkam slows down the absorption of iron salts from other drugs.
  • In turn, the absorption of potassium and magnesium in the digestive tract is reduced by drugs with astringent action.
  • The risk of hyperkalemia is increased with simultaneous treatment with the so-called ACE inhibitors. The term refers to the popular remedies for high blood pressure, heart failure (Enalaprilu, Captoprilu).
  • The same effect is expected when combined with diuretics, beta-blockers, cyclosporine, NSAIDs.
  • However, Asparkam helps prevent hypokalemia caused by oral corticosteroids.

Observing the interval between taking medications (at least 3 hours) will help to avoid undesirable situations.

Asparkam reduces the cardiotoxic effect of cardiac glycosides.

The use of Asparkam in sports

You need to know what they are used for, and in which cases this or that drug helps. If you use Asparkam with intense physical exertion, you can avoid a deficiency of K + and Mg2 + that is dangerous for the body. Minerals are lost with sweat during training, excreted in the urine. Symptoms and consequences of a lack of ions can be convulsions, arrhythmia, neurocirculatory dystonia.

Use of the drug in sports:

  • improves the condition and increases the resistance of the heart muscle to physical exertion;
  • reduces the risk of heart failure during intense workouts;
  • helps rapid relaxation of skeletal muscles;
  • eliminates tension and spasms in the limbs.

Athletes, like ordinary people, do not always consume a sufficient amount of foods rich in all minerals. In addition, many suffer from malabsorption of nutrients, including inorganic ones.

Asparkam is a simple and affordable way to fill up the deficiency of K + and Mg2 +. It is believed that 1-3 tablets compensate for the loss of potassium in sweat and urine.

Experts recommend taking the medicine one hour before training with Riboxin, which increases the effect of Asparkam.

Contraindications, side effects and overdose

The medicine should not be taken by those who are diagnosed with individual intolerance to its components. Also contraindications are hyperkalemia and / or hypermagnesemia, low blood pressure, dehydration, renal failure, acute metabolic acidosis.

Side effects:

  • abdominal pain and pain in the abdomen;
  • decrease in blood pressure;
  • diarrhea;
  • rash.

An overdose is most often a consequence of the rapid on / in administration of Asparkam. As a result, paresthesia and other signs of hyperkalemia occur. Excess magnesium in the body is manifested by a strong thirst, a change in blood pressure, hot flashes, respiratory depression, and convulsions. In order to normalize the patient's condition, intravenous administration of calcium chloride will be required.

Analogues of the drug

The drugs that are similar in composition and release form are Asparkam Farmak and Avexima. In Panangin tablets, the ratio of active ingredients is 158 and 140 mg. Orokamag, magnesium orotate, potassium orotate contain only K + or Mg2 +.

Analogs of Asparkam in the form of solutions:

  • Potassium and magnesium asparaginate (Germany);
  • "Panangin" in ampoules (Hungary);
  • "Asparkam-L" (Russia).

If the active ingredients are the same, then the drugs have a similar therapeutic effect. The differences affecting the choice of "Panangin" or "Asparkam" are in the composition, price. Imported medicine is 2.5 to 3 times more expensive than domestic.

Fans of the Hungarian remedy drew attention to the appearance of "Panangina forte" containing doubled amounts of the main components (316 and 280 mg). The cost of buying a more concentrated drug is almost always lower compared to the purchase of two drugs with a lower concentration of active ingredients in the composition.

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