Is there an advanced way to reduce pain through medical cannabis?

Most patients consume medical cannabis by smoking, through which the medical community also finds it difficult to encourage, due to the known health harms of smoking.

So how do you achieve a more effective and safer pain reduction?

A new medical device is revolutionizing

24/02/2022

Thursday, 24 February 2022, 06:48

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Saiki - a medical cannabis treatment inhaler called SyqeAir (Photo: PR)

When we talk about medical cannabis, most of us think of cigarettes.

Indeed, about 90% of users consume cannabis in the form of rash smoking.

Most of the remaining consumers use cannabis extract mixed with oil.

In Israel, there are three ways approved for medical cannabis consumption by the Medical Cannabis Unit of the Ministry of Health. For effective and safe consumption of the plant

"Inflorescences can be smoked with a clean cigarette, or with tobacco and tobacco substitutes - which often causes the temperature to rise and the substances to burn. The combustion causes more active substance in cannabis to emerge, creating toxic and carcinogenic substances and nicotine addiction," explains Dr. Aviram. Consume inflorescences even in evaporators that are manually heated to a temperature of 40-210 degrees Celsius (compared to 800 in a cigarette).

"Cannabis can also be extracted chemically and mixed with any oil; olive oil, coconut, palm. The main types of oil: CBD-rich oil (CBD oil), THC-rich oil and THC / CBD balanced. The Ministry of Health instructs to drip the oil under the tongue, assuming it is absorbed "In the blood vessels in the area and the effect will be rapid, as happens with painkillers. In practice, cannabis" loves "fat and has no ability to be absorbed under the tongue, the oil reaches the digestive tract first and not directly into the bloodstream," explains Dr. Aviram

. The absorption of cannabis in the blood. "Most patients will feel the effect after one to three hours of taking the oil.

Compared to smoking or evaporation whose effect begins after only 3-5 minutes.

In many cases the patient swallows the drops of oil, waits half an hour, does not feel relief and drips another drop and so on.

Then the effect comes in a "boom," sometimes combining serious side effects, such as hallucinations, nausea, vomiting and more. "

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"The essential difference with a SyqeAir inhaler is a low, accurate and consistent dose."

Dr. Yehoshua (Shuki) Aviram (Photo: PR)

When the method does not work - random dosing, variability in absorption and inconsistent side effects

in Israel, cannabis is not defined as a drug, but is considered a drug in the perception of the consciousness of patients who use it to relieve symptoms and difficult medical conditions.

In cannabis smoking, evaporation and ingestion of oil, two important conditions found in an approved drug are not met: there is no fixed dose - neither during the use itself nor in the way the blood is absorbed, and as a result there is no stable and consistent effect in each use.

A recently published study on cannabis oil, showed variability in the absorption of cannabis in the blood, in taking the oil after / before meals, these variables impair the uniformity of dosage and lead to non-uniform effects.

Even in smoking and evaporation it is not possible to achieve a uniform inhalation of cannabis every time and as a result;

There is no uniform dose or predictable effect.

Unlike cigarettes, cannabis oil and most evaporators sold in the country, which are not considered medical devices, the SyqeAir inhaler has undergone a licensing process at the Ministry of Health and has received an AMR approval (medical accessories and devices). And consistent, consistent effect by customized dosing and accompaniment by qualified nurses who bring patients to an optimal dose, with significant symptom reduction and fewer side effects.

"The essential difference with a SyqeAir inhaler is a low, accurate and consistent dose, similar to the drug world, and can lead to a situation where the patient has no side effects, and will have no side effects because he constantly receives the same amount and quality of active ingredient," explains Dr. Aviram.

"The device accompanies me 24/7 and when I have to strive I have no problem doing it everywhere" (Photo: PR)

Defeat the limitations of pain.

The moving story of Mali

Mali Sternshus Leibowitz, 60, a mother of 3 and grandmother of two twin granddaughters, woke up one morning, about six years ago, with excruciating pain in her neck and subsequently underwent spinal surgery.

"I went in walking, a very active woman, and I came out of the operating room paralyzed in both legs and with my right hand. The diagnosis was a rupture of all the vertebrae in the neck. Three of them were operated on," says Mali.

"Four days after the first operation I underwent another operation, and within ten days I underwent three operations. After that I spent six months in rehabilitation at the Levinstein house where I was taught" to be a good cripple.

" / 7. "The pains made me a very short fuse, from a happy and living person I became a kind of monster that erupts on everything and does not understand how she got into this situation.

I broadcast business as usual, but could not reset myself.

Mali went to the pain clinic at Rambam, where she was advised to try medical cannabis.

I never smoked or intended to smoke, and it seemed to me that cannabis was used to get high and not to lead a normal life system

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Each time I took the oil, its effect came only after three hours, at best, during which I was under the pressure of 'When will it start working?'

And when there was already an impact, it was not good.

I experienced dizziness and felt out of control of what was happening.

And most of all, it did not help me in terms of pain.

I had to plan my day around the moment of impact, and be at home, in a calm environment, where I could be calm or close to bed. "

Following the failure to use cannabis oil, Mali returned to a pain clinic, received an inhaler license and began treatment using a SyqeAir inhaler.

"The inhaler helped from the first aspirations. The use was so simple, clear and precise and it, for me, was a gift. The inhaler brought me calm, not Stella. It gathered me and gave me a feeling and understanding that now I manage the pain and not the pain drives me. And what really got me back. "There is no addiction and everything is measured and accurate and with the possibility of funding it in a very rational way."

Four years have passed since the first time.

"Thanks to Saiki's inhaler I'm able to lead a normative lifestyle. I're back to being the person I used to be: positive, active and leading an orderly agenda. I started learning again, that it's my essence in life - and when it was taken from me it was the beginning of the end. I fear I can not be a functioning grandmother and I was deceived. I know that the inhaler can not harm them in any way and it was important to me that my discretion is maintained. The device accompanies me 24/7 and when I have to strive I have no problem doing it everywhere, it looks completely innocent ".

Optimal dose of the inhaler: The intensity of the pain decreases without cognitive impairment.

In clinical trials conducted by the company among patients with chronic neuropathic pain, it has been shown that the SyqeAir inhaler provides a measured, low and accurate dose of the active ingredient tetrahydro-cannabinol (THC) from raw cannabis inflorescences and therefore enables individualized treatment regimen with medical cannabis.

The "beneficial dose" is achieved through the support of a qualified nurse, who is personally responsible for the patient and accompanies him all the way.

Treatment with the inhaler starts with the lowest dose - 250 micrograms, and increases slowly until the patient reaches the optimal dose with the best possible pain reduction, and without unbearable side effects.

Patients can adjust the dose at the push of a button, and choose between a dose of 250, 500, 750 and 1,000 mcg of THC along with the rest of the cannabis ingredients, for maximum effect of the 'entourage effect'.

"For me, it's a gift," says Mali.

"At the Levinstein house when I was in rehab I wanted to go to sheltered housing so as not to hurt the family and ruin it. This helplessness that you do not know when you will have three minutes you can breathe, drink a cup of coffee or have a calm conversation with your partner and not shout, is unbearable."

According to her, today she is planning her life, is in her final year of school, has traveled abroad, and no less important: she manages to be an active grandmother.

"It took a while until I found the right dose. And Saiki patiently accompanied me all the way, fixed what was needed and answered me in hours. It's an embracing envelope and I know that when I need something I pick up the phone or send WhatsApp. For other things in my life. "

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* In accordance with the indications approved by the Ministry of Health. The use of the inhaler is conditional on the recommendation of a doctor and a license for the use of medical cannabis by the Ministry of Health, in accordance with legal requirements. Researched.

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