Lactovit Forte – description of the drug, instructions for use, reviews

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Manufacturers: Mili Healthcare

Active ingredients

• Lactobacillus acidophilus

Disease class

• Other specified bowel diseases

Clinical and pharmacological group

• Not indicated. See instructions

Pharmacological action

• Normalizing intestinal microflora

Pharmacological group

• Agents that normalize intestinal microflora

Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics

Pharmacodynamics

Lactovit Forte is a probiotic that contains 2 strains of the same type of bacteria of the human intestinal microflora - lactobacilli , characterized by the ability to produce lactic acid and suppress the growth of pathogenic microflora. The drug promotes the formation of antibodies and activates the phagocytic function of leukocytes.

In addition to lactobacilli, the drug contains folic acid and cyanocobolamin . The first is involved in the biosynthesis of amino acids and nucleic acids. Indispensable for erythro- and leukopoiesis, necessary to protect the fetus from teratogenic factors.

Cyanocobalamin activates metabolism (fat, protein and carbohydrate); has a beneficial effect on liver function.

When the capsules enter the stomach, they protect bacteria from gastric juice for 4 hours. They dissolve in the duodenum, and bacteria begin to multiply due to the presence of nutrients in the capsules.

Pharmacokinetics

Not studied.

Prices

One of the serious problems of our time is the price of medicines. Often it is so large that it is not even possible to buy the necessary medications for treatment.

The drug Laktovit does not belong to the group of expensive drugs; prices in Ukraine can vary from 60 to 170 hryvnia.

In Russia, prices are also not the same; different pharmacies and manufacturers set their own, but it fluctuates in the range of 1,400 rubles.

Indications for use

• dysbiosis after intestinal infections and antimicrobial therapy in adults and children;
• chronic colitis ;
• prenatal preparation in case of violation of vaginal cleanliness in pregnant women;
• inflammatory diseases of the genital area, accompanied by impaired vaginal cleanliness;
• nonspecific ulcerative colitis ;
• complex treatment of diathesis in children, urticaria , atopic dermatitis and eczema .

Instructions for use Lactovit Forte (Method and dosage)

Lactovit forte is not tablets, but capsules, which are taken 40 minutes before meals twice a day. Daily dose for adults: 2-4 capsules.

For children under 2 years old, the daily dosage is 1 capsule, from 2 to 14 years old - 2 capsules. When treating children under 2 years of age, the contents of the capsule are dissolved in 10 ml of milk or the powder is used to prepare a suspension. Single dose – 5 ml of suspension.

For prenatal preparation, 2 capsules per day are prescribed orally for a week, followed by monitoring the purity of vaginal secretions.

The instructions for Lactovit Forte determine the approximate treatment time: 30 days for dysbacteriosis, 6-8 weeks for severe ulcerative colitis, and 4-6 weeks during the period of convalescence after an intestinal infection.

The final treatment period depends on the normalization of the intestinal microflora. If the microflora is not completely restored, half the daily dose is prescribed for 2 months. In case of recurrent course of the disease, treatment courses are repeated.

Newspaper "News of Medicine and Pharmacy" 13-14 (376-377) 2011

Diarrhea that occurs during the use of antibacterial agents and has no other obvious causes is defined as antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). The criteria for this syndrome are loose or pasty stools with a frequency of more than 3 times a day and/or the daily amount of feces exceeding 200 g. AAD can develop in the period from 2 hours after taking an antibiotic to 8 weeks after its discontinuation [2, 8, 28] . It should be noted that in healthy children in the first months of life who are breastfed, the frequency of stool can be from 6 times a week to 10 times a day, and the stool can be soft, mushy or watery and contain some visible mucus [3] . Apparently, any change in the nature of the stool (thinning, the appearance of more mucus) and an increase in the frequency of bowel movements in a newborn compared to the usual nature of bowel movements for a given child can be regarded as diarrhea.

The incidence of AAD among children most depends on the type of antibacterial agent used and varies between 8–30% [5, 21]. The idiopathic form is the leader in the morbidity structure, accounting for 80–90%. The remaining 10–20% of all diarrhea caused by antibiotic therapy are associated with C. difficile [7]. Although only 10–20% of patients with AAD have toxigenic strains of C. difficile, recent attention has focused on this microorganism. This is primarily due to the fact that this microorganism is capable of causing serious clinical manifestations in the form of pseudomembranous colitis, which ends in death in 30–40% of cases [11, 19, 21]. Among newborns, the carriage rate reaches 50–65% and decreases with age [5, 23]. To date, there is no data in Ukraine regarding the incidence of AAD in newborns.

The following risk factors for the development of AAD are identified [1, 6, 8, 10]: long hospital stay; being in a room with other patients infected with C.difficile; treatment in intensive care units; age up to 3 years; old age (over 65); previous surgical interventions; tube feeding; state of immunosuppression; the presence of concomitant anemia, body weight deficiency; use of antacids; severe concomitant pathology (nonspecific ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, renal failure, etc.). A positive relationship between the incidence of diarrhea and the route of administration and duration of antibacterial therapy has not been proven. A number of studies have shown that severe forms of AAD can develop even after a single dose of an antibiotic [20].

The spectrum of clinical symptoms can vary from asymptomatic bacterial carriage (especially in newborns and children of the first year of life) or a mild course in the form of watery diarrhea up to 5-7 times a day, not accompanied by systemic manifestations, to severe - diarrhea up to 20 times a day (sometimes with admixture of blood), accompanied by fever up to 39–40 ° C, and the development of severe dehydration. A severe variant is pseudomembranous colitis, which is observed in 1–2% of patients with diarrhea caused by C. difficile infection. The absence of clinically manifest forms of AAD associated with Clostridium difficile in children is apparently explained by the absence or immaturity of receptors of intestinal mucosal cells for the toxins of this pathogen. It is believed that temporary resistance to this infection may also be associated with the presence in children of the first six months of life of maternal anti-clostridial antibodies obtained transplacentally [28].

Probiotics (eubiotics) are a pharmacological group of drugs containing strains of one or more types of microorganisms that have a beneficial effect on the human body. These agents are increasingly used to treat a wide range of gastrointestinal diseases in both adults and children [14, 17, 18]. Currently, sufficient experience has been accumulated in the use of probiotics for AAD. The most studied in this regard are the following microorganisms: Saccharomyces boulardii, bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus (L.rhamnosus strain GG, L.casei, L.acidophilus), Bifidobacterium (B.longum, B.lactis). Probiotics can be used both as a means of preventing diarrhea and for therapeutic purposes. Bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus (L. rhamnosus strain GG, L. casei, L. acidophilus) have been successfully used to treat patients with diarrhea associated with C. difficile. Supplementation with these probiotics resulted in a significant reduction in clinical symptoms of AAD [15, 27, 32, 33]. Recent meta-analyses have shown that probiotics containing Lactobacillus strain GG, L. sporogenes and Saccharomyces boulardii have a significant preventive effect against the development of AAD [22, 29, 30]. S.boulardii reduced the incidence of antibiotic-associated diarrhea by 61%, and lactobacilli by 66% [17, 26, 30, 31]. The use of Bifidobacterium lactis in combination with S. thermophilus for prophylactic purposes prevented the development of AAD in infants [4].

The mechanism of action of these probiotics in the treatment and prevention of AAD is as follows: S. boulardii produces a proteolytic enzyme that prevents the binding of toxins A and B produced by C. difficile to receptors [24]; microorganisms of the genus Lactobacillus stimulate local immunity of the intestinal mucosa (synthesis of IgA and IgG, release of interferon), produce compounds that have antimicrobial activity and prevent the adhesion of enteropathogens to epithelial cells [17]. There is also evidence of the effectiveness of the use of probiotics for the treatment of diarrhea, which is directly related to the damaging effects of antibiotics. It was shown that the use of yogurt containing Bifidobacterium longum led to a reduction in stool frequency in erythromycin-induced diarrhea. In another study, the use of probiotics containing Lactobacillus bacteria reduced the symptoms of ampicillin-induced diarrhea [32].

The effectiveness of probiotics largely depends on properties such as survival and the ability to multiply and colonize in the large intestine. The above microorganisms that are part of probiotics fully possess the indicated properties [9, 16]. Also, numerous studies have shown the absence of serious side effects when using probiotics [11, 12, 25].

Of particular interest is the probiotic Lactovit forte , which contains spores of the bacteria L.sporogenes (according to the new nomenclature B.coagulans). B. coagulans is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, motile bacterium. Spores of this bacterium germinate in the acidic contents of the stomach and penetrate the intestines, where they produce the beneficial L(+) form of lactic acid and effectively prevent the growth of pathogenic microorganisms. Lactic acid produced by B. coagulans creates an optimal acidity of the environment for the development of normal intestinal microflora, has an antibacterial effect, and is also an energy substrate for epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal mucosa. B. coagulans bacteria do not colonize the intestinal mucosa and are gradually eliminated from the gastrointestinal tract, providing a prolonged therapeutic effect after the end of their administration.

A study was conducted with the drug Lactovit forte.

The purpose of the study was to study the effectiveness and safety of using the drug Laktovit forte for the prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in newborns.

Research objectives:

— to establish the incidence of AAD in newborns;

— determine the most significant risk factors for the development of AAD in newborns;

— to evaluate the therapeutic and prophylactic effectiveness and safety of the drug Laktovit forte against diarrhea in newborns associated with taking antibiotics.

The study was conducted at the Odessa Regional Children's Clinical Hospital in the neonatal pathology department.

Materials and methods

The observation group included 60 children from 3 to 28 days of life.

Inclusion criteria: newborn children aged 3 to 28 days inclusive; children with intrauterine infection and other conditions who received parenteral antibacterial therapy (aminopenicillins, cephalosporins, macrolides), at an age-specific dosage of at least 7 days; gender (boys and girls).

Exclusion criteria: lack of informed parental consent; acute gastroenteritis, necrotizing enterocolitis, malformations of the gastrointestinal tract, primary immunodeficiency, malabsorption syndrome.

The frequency, dilution of stool, the appearance or increase in the amount of pathological impurities compared to the usual frequency and character of stool in a given child during antibiotic therapy (in the absence of other reasons) was regarded as the development of antibiotic-associated diarrhea.

Criteria for evaluation

Symptoms typical of AAD, such as profuse loose stools, intestinal colic, flatulence, and vomiting, were assessed as effectiveness criteria. The severity of symptoms of the disease was assessed in points: 0 - absent, 1 - moderately expressed, 2 - significantly expressed.

Dosage

The drug was dosed according to the instructions: 1/2 capsule 2 times a day 40 minutes before feeding. The contents of the capsule were mixed with breast milk or formula. The drug Lactovit forte was prescribed from the first days of antibiotic therapy.

All children included in the study were examined using clinical and laboratory methods. Maternal complaints and objective data were assessed, including body temperature, frequency and consistency of stool, the presence of pathological impurities in stool, abdominal volume, body weight dynamics; laboratory tests (general blood and urine analysis, coprogram, bacteriological examination of stool).

Portability

The tolerability of the drug was assessed based on subjective and objective data obtained during treatment. Tolerability was assessed in points: 1 - extremely unsatisfactory, 2 - unsatisfactory, 3 - satisfactory, 4 - good, 5 - very good.

The study included 60 newborn children, including 34 boys and 26 girls. The average age at the time of initial examination was 8.4 days (range 3 to 16 days of life).

All children were randomly divided into 2 groups. Group I (main) consisted of 30 children who received the study drug Lactovit Forte along with antibiotic therapy, group II (control) included 30 children who received basic therapy without a probiotic drug.

The distribution of children by underlying disease is presented in Table. 1.

Results and discussion

All patients, depending on the underlying disease, received a course of antibiotic therapy lasting from 7 to 25 days. The majority of children received cephalosporins - 13 in the main group (43.3%) and 15 children (50%) in the control group; 10 (33%) from the main group and 9 children (30%) from the control group received a combination of cephalosporins with aminoglycosides. Semi-synthetic protected penicillins were received by 7 (23.3%) and 6 (20%) children in the main and control groups, respectively.

An assessment of risk factors for the development of antibiotic-associated diarrhea was carried out. The main factors considered were prematurity, the type of antibacterial agent used, tube feeding, and whether the child was on a ventilator. An analysis of the influence of risk factors on the incidence of AAD is presented in Table. 2.

In the control group, AAD developed in 19 children (63%), while in the main group - only in 5 children (16.7%). The significant significance of reducing episodes of diarrhea when taking the probiotic Lactovit forte was confirmed - RR = 0.26 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.11–0.61).

Antibiotic-associated diarrhea occurred on average at 4.4 ± 1.7 days in newborns (95% CI 3.7–5.1). There were no significant differences in the time of occurrence of AAD in the study and control groups (p > 0.05).

The most significant factors in the development of AAD were prematurity, tube feeding, mechanical ventilation and the use of a combination of cephalosporins with aminoglycosides.

The duration of AAD symptoms in the control group was 4.7 ± 1.2 days (95% CI 4.2–5.3), while in the main group the average duration was 2 times shorter and amounted to 2.2 ± 0.8 days (95% CI 1.2–3.2). According to the results of the analysis, a significant difference in the duration of AAD in the main and control groups was found, which reflects the therapeutic effectiveness of the probiotic Laktovit forte in relation to the duration of the disease.

In Fig. Figure 1 shows the dynamics of the main clinical symptoms of AAD in newborns, expressed in points. In children of the main group, on the 3rd day of assessing clinical manifestations, the average score of typical symptoms of AAD was significantly (P < 0.01) lower in relation to newborns of the control group - 4.2 ± 1.0 points versus 6.0 ± 1.2 points; on the 7th day - 1.8 ± 0.8 points versus 3.1 ± 1.3 points. By the 10th day, no clinical manifestations were noted in the newborns of the main group (Fig. 1).

A good assessment of tolerability (4 points) of the drug Lactovit forte was observed in 2 children, the remaining 28 children had very good tolerability of the drug (5 points). Throughout the study, no side effects were observed when using the probiotic Lactovit Forte in newborns.

conclusions

1. The incidence of AAD in newborns is 63%, which exceeds the incidence among other age groups; this determines the need for preventive measures using probiotic preparations.

2. Risk factors for the development of AAD in newborns were: prematurity, mechanical ventilation, tube feeding, and the use of a combination of antibiotics.

3. The use of the probiotic Lactovit forte, containing B. coagulans , reduces the risk of developing AAD in newborns by almost 3.5 times, reduces the duration of diarrhea syndrome and reduces the degree of clinical manifestations of intestinal dyspepsia in children during the use of antibiotics.

Interaction

Lactobacilli are resistant to antibiotics. The absorption of vitamin B9 (folic acid) is reduced when taken together with analgesics , anticonvulsants, neomycin, sulfonamides, antacids, chloramphenicol , polymyxin , and cytostatics.

Reduce the absorption of cyanocobalamin: aminoglycosides, salicylates, antiepileptic drugs and potassium preparations.

Analogs

Level 4 ATC code matches: Bioflor
Enterogermina

Analogues of the drug are:

• Lacidophilus - contains only lactobacilli (Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus rhamnosus);
• Linek c - in addition to Lactobacillus acidophilus, the composition includes Bifidobacterium infantis and Enterococcus faecium (combined probiotic).

Price Laktovit Forte, where to buy

You can buy it in Moscow pharmacies, which are presented on the website of the Federal Information Service www.poisklekarstv.ru. Information is updated daily. The average price of Laktovit Forte is 1350 rubles. If you are interested in Laktovit tea, the price for 20 bags is 300 rubles.

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