About complications of antabus therapy

Abstract

Antabuse, like its analogue, thiuran, is tetraethylurandisulfide. The toxic reaction during its use can be of different severity: from mild, tolerated by patients without therapeutic intervention, to severe toxicosis with a sharp suppression of cardiovascular activity, with toxic psychoses. The most important property that caused its use as a therapeutic drug is the incompatibility of antabuse with alcohol while taking them. It has been established that antabuse delays the oxidative process of alcohol and leads to the accumulation in the body of its decay products, toxic to most organs and systems.

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Yaroslavtseva Y.V.