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Valium (Diazepam)

Valium is a drug of benzodiazepine group, which draws attention to the problem of treating diseases of nervous and musculoskeletal systems. Extensive experience of Valium clinical use leads to the conclusion that Valium is one of the best anxiolytics and muscle relaxants, which are successfully used for symptomatic treatment of anxiety and spasticity at home.

Valium effects and benefits

Valium has different therapeutic effects, so the list of indications for its use includes different types of diseases. The results of post-marketing studies demonstrate that Valium is most often prescribed to treat anxiety symptoms.

When using Valium (Ddiazepam) as anxiolytic, patients with anxiety disorders manage to achieve several goals.

• Firstly, Valium helps to reduce increased irritability and anxiety.
• Secondly, Valium alleviates symptoms of agitation and anxiety and decreases frequency of relapses of anxiety symptoms.
• Thirdly, Valium warns one of the most common symptoms of anxiety – insomnia and helps to improve quality of nighttime sleep.

By influencing on the complex of psychiatric symptoms, Valium helps to quickly improve the patient’s mental health and significantly improve his social activity.

As anticonvulsant and muscle relaxant, Valium is used in cases when muscle spasticity or spasms are caused by:

• neurological conditions affecting muscle tone
• inflammatory processes in the joints or musculoskeletal system

Given the fact that Valium simultaneously exerts an anxiolytic, anticonvulsant and sedative effects, it is one of the best drugs to treat symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal.

Size of Valium doses for various therapeutic purposes

• To relieve anxiety symptoms, no more than a Valium 10mg pill can be taken four times a day.
• For symptomatic treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome, a Valium 5mg tablet should be taken no more than four times a day.
• To reduce spasticity and relieve muscle spasms,up to 40mg of Valium can be used per day in four divided doses.

Children, elderly and emaciated patients should use low daily doses of Valium. The minimal single dose of Valium for these groups of patients is 2-2.5mg. Frequency of administration of Valium tablets in children, adolescents and elderlymay vary from 1 to 4 times per day.

 

Patients who do not abuse of Valium and do not use this drug off-label, the risk of serious side effects is practically absent.

Possible adverse reactions and ways of their prevention

At the initial stage of treatment of anxiety and / or muscle spasticity, Valium may cause:

• drowsiness
• fatigue
• impaired coordination
• muscle weakness

To reduce the risk of these side effects, antispasmodic / anxiolytic therapy should be started with the minimal daily doses of Valium.

When using Valium for a few weeks, side effects usually disappear. Therefore, patients who take Valium pills for a few months do not experience physical and emotional discomfort because of side effects.

In addition to these side effects, Valium may cause:

• Hypotension
• Dry mouth
• Dizziness
• Ischuria

Almost all adverse reactions that Valium may cause are dose-dependent. Therefore, if high doses of Valium cause side effects, the total daily or single dose of Valium should be reduced to decrease their intensity.

Some facts about experience of clinical use of Valium

Despite the fact that Valium has a sedative effect, it is not approved for treatment of insomnia. To facilitate falling asleep and improve sleep duration, Valium is used only in cases if sleep problems are caused by anxiety disorder.

Patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome should take Valium only in the occurrence of anxiety, agitation and anxiety symptoms. If these symptoms do not occur, or are mild and do not cause discomfort, a Valium dose can be skipped.

If adult patients take more than 40 mg of anxiolytic / muscle relaxant Valium a day, they may develop severe side effects. To prevent severe overdose, a few simple rules must be observed.

• A single dose of Valium should not exceed 10 mg.
• The total daily dose of Valium should not exceed 40mg.
• Frequency of using Valium tablets should not exceed 4 times per day.

Valium effectively alleviates anxiety symptoms, but does not affect all mechanisms and reasons causing depression symptoms. Therefore, Valium should be prescribed only to patients who predominantly suffer from anxiety disorder without predominance of depression symptoms.