Tsitovir-3 analogues are cheap. Price, reviews

Tsitovir-3 is included in the group of immunostimulantsintended for the prevention / treatment of viruses during the period of their mass spread. The original drug, as well as its cheap analogues, can also be prescribed for immunodeficiencies that arise in postoperative period, contact with certain occupational hazards, severe injuries, chemotherapy.

Thanks to such medications, the immune barrier increases, the immune system quickly produces antibodies (proteins) as a response to infection, and the fight against viruses and pathogenic bacteria becomes much more efficient.

Characteristics of the drug

The main active ingredient of Citovir-3 hard gelatin capsules is sodium alpha-glutamyl-tryptophan, which is aimed at the treatment of acute and chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases, accompanied by a decrease in cellular immunity.

It also includes the following components:

• vitamin C;
• bendazole hydrochloride, which has a moderate immunostimulating activity, stimulating the function of the spinal cord;
• milk sugar or lactose monohydrate;
• a mixture of steoric acid, synthetic fatty acids and calcium salts.

As for the capsule shell, it contains titanium dioxide, gelatin, Sunset Yellow FCF, and azorubin. The drug is sold in cardboard boxes, which can contain from 1 to 4 cell contour blisters, 12 tablets each.

The main reason for the appointment is the prevention and complex treatment of influenza in adults and children over 6 years old, clinically and morphologically similar acute inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system, the causative agents of which are usually viruses tropic to respiratory epithelium.

In the course of laboratory studies, it was found that the drug helps to suppress the membranes single-stranded virus belonging to the subgenus SARS-CoV-2 and which is the causative agent of coronavirus infection COVID-19.

Cytovir-3, cheap analogs of which will be considered below, due to the content of ascorbic acid, activates adaptive a humoral form of immunity aimed at extracellular antigens and necessary to protect the body from bacterial pathogens and toxins. In addition, it normalizes the permeability of the smallest blood vessels that permeate the entire human body, neutralizes free radicals to protect the body from oxidative stress.

The preventive action of the drug is represented by a clear regulation of neutrophilic granular leukocytes, enzymatic activity of which absorbs / destroys non-cellular infectious agents, reproducible exclusively inside the cells. Alpha-glutamyl-tryptophan normalizes T-cell receptors, key molecules of the adaptive immune response.

Basic instructions

Take Citovir-3 for the prevention of acute respiratory viral infections, especially with direct contact with an already infected a person, you need 3 times a day, one tablet half an hour before a meal (the recommended duration of preventive therapy is from 4 to 7 days). To normalize the epidemic situation, the course can be repeated after 21 days.

During pregnancy, it is prohibited to take this immunostimulating drug, as well as in the presence of an allergy to one or another of its components. During lactation, it is used with caution and only under the strict supervision of a doctor. Contraindicated in children under 6 years of age.

In case of an overdose, patients face such side effects as a short-term increase in blood pressure (especially characteristic for people with neurocirculatory dystonia), increased body temperature, itching of the skin, redistribution leukocytosis, hypoalbuminemia.

Treatment for these symptoms includes a set of tests to assess kidney function, blood glucose monitoring, which can be done on your own (portable glucometers) or in the laboratory.

Analogs

Tsitovir-3, cheap analogs of which can be found in almost any pharmacy, is produced in Finland, and the legal entity in whose name the registration document is drawn up is a joint stock company "Cytomed".

In order not to accidentally buy a fake, you should always check the name and address of the organization authorized by the holder (owner) registration certificate of a medicinal product for medical use for acceptance of claims from a consumer, which are indicated on packaging.

Medicines-synonyms of Cytovir-3 differ from the original in name, may contain different active substances, but are used to treat / prevent the same pathological conditions. Some generics, with their brief characteristics, are listed below.

Ergoferon

Lozenges, the active component of which is the substance of antibodies to IFN-gamma affinity purified. The excipients of the drug are the same as those of Cytovir-3.

This tool has antiviral and antihistamine properties. Its ability to enhance the effect of other drugs is often used by doctors to enhance the effect of antipyretic and pain relieving medications.

Ergoferon is used for the following diseases:

• herpes infections;
• influenza A and B viruses, which have 8 fragments in their genome and annually cause seasonal epidemics;
• acute intestinal infections of viral etiology;
• enterovirus and meningococcal meningitis, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, tick-borne encephalitis.

The appointment of Ergoferon is allowed even for children from 6 months old (the medicine should be given to a small child, after dissolving the capsule in a small amount of boiled water at room temperature). If the patient has a history of a hereditary disease, which is based on metabolic disorders on the way of converting galactose to glucose (galactosemia); fermentopathy, characterized by an inability to break down milk sugar, Ergoferon should be taken with extreme caution.

Allokin-Alpha

Tsitovir-3, cheap analogs of which are considered in the article, has another effective generic Allokin-Alpha from the pharmacological group of antimicrobial and antiparasitic agents. It is produced in the form of a lyophilized powder for the preparation of a solution for injection (ampoules are placed in a cell package made of polymeric materials).

The effectiveness of the drug Allokin-Alpha in comparison with Cytovir-3 is slightly higher, since its subcutaneous administration provides a rapid penetration of alloferons - cytokine-like peptides the immune system of insects, capable of specifically adjusting the mechanisms of antiviral and antitumor immunity of humans, into the systemic circulation and its further interaction with cells.

The increased concentration of interferon persists for 7-8 hours after the administration of the drug, which, in addition other, it is characterized by low toxicity, does not cause allergies, does not possess teratogenic, mutagenic and embryotoxic action.

To determine the regimen and duration of treatment, you should consult a doctor. For infections caused by papillomaviruses, the recommended course dose of Allokin-Alpha is 6 injections. Patients with acute hepatitis - polyetiological, anatomical and functional liver damage, as a rule, undergo a course of 9 injections.

Galavit

Galavit tablets, like Citovir-3, are included in the group of immunomodulating and anti-inflammatory drugs.

Pharmacological properties of the drug are presented:

• the ability to regulate the functional and metabolic activity of polymorphonuclear cells of innate and adaptive immunity;
• normalization of phagocytic activity of monocytes-macrophages, bactericidal activity of neutrophils and cytotoxic activity of NK cells;
• reduction in the frequency, severity and duration of infections;
• a rapid decrease in the incidence of a certain form of infection to zero (elimination);
• an increase in the body's resistance to infectious pathologies of bacterial, viral and fungal etiology.

Cytovir-3 differs from Galavit in the regimen of administration: the second drug should be taken 1 capsule up to 4 times a day for pneumonia, flu, bronchitis, adenoid. This cheap analogue is also recommended to be taken to increase the ability to perform a particular job with the lowest physiological costs and with the highest results.

Anvimax

1 g of Anvimax powder for the preparation of oral suspension contains paracetamol, ascorbic acid, calcium gluconate monohydrate, rimantadine hydrochloride and quercetin flavonoid glycoside. Excipients are sugar substitute (food additive E951), hypromellose, silicon dioxide, flavoring "Raspberry", "Lemon", "Cranberry" or "Black currant".

After determining the nature of the infection, Anvimax is prescribed for the symptomatic treatment of colds, influenza type A and other acute respiratory viral infections, which are accompanied by fever, a feeling of coldness, muscle tremors, pallor of the skin, sore throat, joints and muscles.

The antiviral activity of rimantadine allows blocking the M2 channels of the influenza A virus, disrupting its ability penetrate cells and release ribonucleoprotein, and thereby inhibit the most important stage of replication viruses.

Paracetamol has an analgesic and antipyretic effect, ascorbic acid takes part in the regulation redox processes, which play an important role in the life of the body, since it is in the processes oxidation, energy is released and stored, and the reduction processes are associated with the assembly of protein molecules, nucleic acids, polysaccharides in the body.

Imudon

Lozenges, which contain lysates of bacteria - "pieces" of probiotics (their cells, split into tiny fragments of proteins - peptides).

The list of excipients that make up the drug is as follows:

• milk sugar is the only low molecular weight carbohydrate of animal origin;
• mannitol;
• aliphatic amino acid glycine;
• sodium saccharinate;
• anhydrous citric acid.

The ability to activate a process in which a cell binds to a particle on the surface, and then envelops and immerses it inside (phagocytosis), to increase the amount immunocompetent cells and increase the production of lysozyme - an antibacterial agent that destroys the cell walls of bacteria by hydrolysis of peptidoglycan, allows you to take immunostimulating drug Imudon for inflammatory and infectious diseases of the oral cavity and pharynx, superficial and deep periodontal disease, periodontitis, stomatitis, glossitis, aphthous stomatitis.

It is also prescribed at the stage of preoperative preparation for the complete removal of the tonsils along with the connective tissue capsule.

It is strictly forbidden to take children under 3 years of age, and patients with increased individual sensitivity to the drug or its components. Exceeding the daily dose of the drug, which is 6-8 tablets per day with an interval of resorption of 1 hour, is fraught with nausea, vomiting, angioedema.

Amiksin

A distinctive feature of round biconvex tablets is the presence of an orange film shell, with minor white blotches. In addition to the main active component - a synthetic low-molecular-weight interferon inducer (tilorone), an antiviral and the latest generation of immunomodulatory agents includes potato starch, microcrystalline cellulose, polyvinylpyrrolidone, calcium stearate, croscarmellose sodium.

Tsitovir-3, cheap analogs of which are equally effective, has similar pharmacological properties with Amiksin. After taking the medication, hematopoietic stem cells of the bone marrow are stimulated, antibody formation, the degree of immunosuppression decreases, the immunoregulatory index is restored (CD4 / CD8 ratio).

The indications for the appointment of the drug include therapy of viral hepatitis A, B and C, cytomegalovirus and herpes infection. It is often used as part of the complex treatment of consumption, respiratory chlamydia, multiple sclerosis and degenerative-demyelinating lesions of the brain, accompanied by the formation of large or confluent zones demyelination.

Helixan

The therapeutic effect of the immunomodulatory and immunostimulating herbal tincture is due to the complex of biologically active substances that make up its composition. Treatment of recurrent and chronic viral, fungal and bacterial infectious and inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, bronchitis (including in patients with mastopathy and prostate adenoma glands) becomes as effective as possible thanks to the following components:

• calendula flowers - have a wound-healing and bactericidal effect, reduce neuro-reflex excitability;
• mistletoe white shoots - have a diuretic, hemostatic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory effect;
• Maryin root - increases the acidity of gastric juice, has a calming effect with increased excitability, phobias, hypochondriacal disorder.

Before using the tincture (half an hour before a meal), it must be shaken. The recommended daily dose for adults is 1 tsp. l., diluted in water. If necessary, the dose can be increased to 1 tbsp. spoons, but only after consulting a doctor who will monitor the dynamics of blood test parameters.

Price of funds

The original drug Cytovir-3 and its generics have different price ranges. The table below lists the prices on the basis of which everyone can choose a medication based on their financial capabilities.

A drug	Price
Tsitovir-3	353 r
Ergoferon	368 r
Allokin-Alpha	from 3 900 to 8 350 rubles.
Galavit	556 r
Anvimax	from 132 to 275 rubles.
Imudon	RUB 475
Amiksin	1046 RUB
Helixan	RUB 1,635

Cytovir-3 is an effective remedy that can be used to fight acute respiratory viral infections. Both the original drug and its cheap counterparts are distinguished by a large number of good reviews, which indicate that the drugs are worth the money spent on them. You can't buy health for any money.

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