June 25th, 2013

Now vaccine   against Flu   It can be administered to a human completely new way - with a special adhesive. Japanese scientists Osaka University   We were able to develop a patch, by which the body perfectly without pain in vaccine protects against influenza.

A new patch has a rounded shape, its diameter - no more than one centimeter. This patch integrated thin needle - needle 250 having a length - 0 to 8 mm. In each of these needles have pressed influenza vaccine   and hyaluronic acid .

The Japanese have already managed to test a new type of vaccine administration. They argue that the plaster just as effective as regular injections of the vaccine. But at the same time using the patch vaccine is given completely without pain. Today the action of the drug to feel the 20 volunteers . Special side effects when using such a patch is not fixed, however, some patients have noted that in the place where he was attached to the patch, the skin reddened and swelled a little. Such manifestations were observed in about half of cases.

Soon the drug will be a series of additional tests. But soon the wide application of the patch is not expected: the use of this invention, it is planned no earlier than five years after the start of the test.

It should be noted that the invention of Japanese physicians can not be called an absolute know-how. In some countries, it has long been used patches in the treatment of a number of ailments. For example, in the United States, a similar adhesive applied to reduce headache when migraine . Such a patch can deliver a current via the human body substance sumatriptan Which reduces the symptoms of headache.

But scientists from the Tatarstan   currently working on the release of the drug with verifiable time and place of release in the region GI . On the creation of a development researchers began work four years ago. Today, this development is considered unique in the world of pharmacology, as with the help of drugs can get into the specific departments tract, where they are absorbed most effectively. The fact that the intensity of the absorption of substances depends on how a particular reactive media of the stomach. Outwardly, this development is no different from the most common pills. However, in its composition there are certain agents, which are selected depending on the disease. The new drug will provide for the desired blood concentration of the drug throughout the day, or other appropriate period.