Cerebrolysin Dosage/Direction for Use

Posology: It is recommended that a course of treatment be carried out involving, wherever possible, daily administration over a total of 10-20 days.
Individual doses of up to 50ml can be given.
In general, patients receive per day: With cerebral metabolic disturbances (dementia): 5-30ml.
With post apoplectic defunctionalization symptoms, cranio-cerebral traumata: 10-50ml.
Children receive per day: 1-2ml.
To ensure success, courses of treatment may be repeated until no further improvement is achieved. In doing so the daily administration may be replaced by administration 2-3 times weekly. The individual therapy cycles should be separated by treatment-free intervals corresponding to the duration of a treatment series.
Method of Administration: Up to 5ml intramuscular, up to 10ml intravenous. In addition, an infusion is recommended in which 10ml to max. 50ml is diluted with the following standard infusion solutions and slowly administered (infusion duration approx. 15 to 60 minutes).
Compatibility with the following standard infusion solutions was tested over a 24-hour period at room temperature and under the influence of light: 0.9% sodium chloride solution (9mg NaCl/ml); Ringer's solution (Na⁺ 153.98 mmol/l, Ca²⁺ 2.74 mmol/l, K⁺ 4.02 mmol/l, Cl^- 163.48 mmol/l); glucose 5%.
The simultaneous administration of vitamins, cardiac stimulants or cardiovascular agents is possible, but not in a mixed injection.