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Mypara is currently an analgesic and antipyretic (non-opioid group), with the main ingredient being Paracetamol. Mypara fever reducer has many dosage forms such as film-coated tablets and effervescent tablets with a content of 500mg, effervescent nuggets with a content of 250mg.
1. What is Mypara?
Mypara drug belongs to the group of pain relievers (non-opioid) and fever reducers, with the main ingredient being Paracetamol (Acetaminophen). Paracetamol has a very effective analgesic and antipyretic effect similar to aspirin and can be used as an alternative to aspirin. However, Paracetamol differs from aspirin in its anti-inflammatory properties.
Paracetamol ingredient in Mypara drug works to lower body temperature in people with fever but not in normal condition, by acting on the hypothalamus, dilating blood vessels and increasing peripheral blood flow. border to lower body temperature. Mypara medicine is prepared in many different forms such as film-coated tablets, effervescent nuggets or effervescent tablets, with a strength of 250mg or 500mg. The drug is indicated for use in the following cases:
Reduce fever due to bacterial infection, sinusitis, sore throat, flu - cold or vaccination. Relieves mild to moderate pain such as toothache, tooth extraction, teething, headache, earache, traumatic or postoperative pain.
2. Usage and dosage of Mypara
The dosage forms of the drug Mypara are used orally. For film-coated tablets, take the tablet whole with water. For the form of nuggets and effervescent tablets, put the entire pack or tablet in a glass of water, wait for the medicine to effervescent and completely dissolve, then drink.
Dosage of Mypara 500 film-coated tablets is as follows:
Usual dose for fever and pain relief: 1 tablet/time, used 4-6 hours/time. Children from 6 to 12 years old: 1⁄2 - 1 tablet/time, not to exceed 4 times/day. Children from 12 years old and adults: 1 tablet/time, not to exceed 4 times/day. Dosage Mypara 500 effervescent tablets specifically as follows:
Children from 12 years old and adults: 1-2 tablets/time, used 4-6 hours/time. Children under 12 years old: 1⁄2 - 1 tablet / time, every 4-6 hours / time. The specific dosage of Mypara 250 effervescent nuggets is as follows:
Usual dose: 10-15mg/kg body weight/time and total dose is 60mg/kg body weight/day. Children 1-2 years old: 1⁄2 sachets/time, 3-4 times/day. Children 2 - 3 years old: 3⁄4 packs/time, 3-4 times/day. Children 3 - 6 years old: 1 pack/time, 3-4 times/day. Children 6 - 9 years old: 1 - 1.5 sachets/time, 3-4 times/day. Children 9-12 years old: 2 packs/time, 3-4 times/day. 2.1 How serious is Mypara overdose? Overdose of Mypara drug occurs when taking paracetamol continuously with high doses (from 7.5 - 10g/day and used for 1-2 days), or using a single toxic dose. The drug can cause severe liver toxicity, liver necrosis, and even death.
In 2 - 3 hours after taking Mypara with toxic dose, the patient has abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, cyanosis of the skin and mucous membranes. Severe poisoning can cause the central nervous system to be stimulated, the patient is agitated, delirium, hypothermia, hypotension, circulatory failure....
With a very large dose of Mypara, can cause vascular collapse and shock, convulsions, respiratory failure, and death. Coma may precede sudden death. Clinically, liver damage appears within 2-4 days after a toxic overdose, increasing plasma aminotransferase and bilirubin, leading to prolongation of prothrombin time.
Severe liver damage from an overdose of Mypara can be fatal due to impaired liver function. If not fatal, liver damage takes a long time to heal (maybe weeks or months).
2.2 Treatment of Mypara drug overdose Patients need to be diagnosed early to detect overdose of Mypara by methods of testing drug levels in the blood. However, if the patient has symptoms, it should be treated immediately, avoiding delaying until the results are available, which can lead to serious injury.
In all cases of paracetamol overdose, within 4 hours after taking Mypara, the patient should be gastric lavage. Within 36 hours of taking the drug, the patient needs detoxification therapy with a sulfhydryl compound, either orally or by injection.
If there is an overdose after taking Mypara, the patient should immediately notify the doctor.
3. Side effects of the drug Mypara
Mypara medicine can cause some unwanted side effects with the frequency of occurrence as follows:
Uncommon: Skin rash, nausea, vomiting, hematopoietic disorders, anemia, nephrotoxicity. Rare: Hypersensitivity reactions. If there are any strange symptoms after taking Mypara, the patient should immediately notify the doctor or go to the medical facility soon for a health check.
4. Some notes when using Mypara
Do not use Mypara in people with hypersensitivity to the ingredients of the drug, people with liver, kidney, lung, heart disease, anemia, G6PD enzyme deficiency.
With usual therapeutic doses, Mypara drug is not toxic, but in some cases, hypersensitivity reactions may occur such as urticaria, rash, pruritus, angioedema, laryngeal edema... In addition, use the drug. Prolonged high doses also cause thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, neutrophils and pancytopenia, but rarely agranulocytosis.
People with a history of anemia need to be careful when using Mypara, because the cyanosis disappears when the blood level of methemoglobin is high.
While taking the drug Mypara, do not drink alcohol because along with paracetamol can increase toxicity in the liver.
Do not arbitrarily use Mypara to relieve pain without the guidance or prescription of a doctor. It should be noted that the drug should not be used for more than 5 days in children and 10 days in adults for pain relief, as this may be a medical condition that needs to be diagnosed and treated.
Do not arbitrarily use Mypara to reduce fever in both adults and children in cases of fever that is too high (over 39.5°C) or long-term fever (over 3 days), recurrent fever. Such fevers can also be indicative of a medical condition that needs to be diagnosed and treated.
Before taking Mypara, patients should be warned about serious skin reactions such as toxic skin necrosis syndrome, acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis syndrome, Steven - Johnson syndrome, Lyell's syndrome.
Pregnant women are only allowed to use Mypara medicine in cases of absolute necessity.
If Mypara is used in high doses and for a long time together with anticoagulants, it may increase the anticoagulant effect, but to a mild degree and not serious.
Concomitant administration of Mypara and other hypothermia or phenothiazines may cause severe hypothermia.
Increased risk of hepatotoxicity when anticonvulsants and Mypara are co-administered. To avoid affecting the liver, patients should limit the dose of paracetamol while taking anticonvulsants.
The use of Mypara 250 and 500 is to reduce fever and relieve mild to moderate pain. Fever in cases like bacterial infection, cold or flu, sore throat, sinusitis, ... Pain relief in cases like menstrual pain, toothache, headache.
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