Ergocalciferol

Roman name

Ergocalciferolum

The composition and the form of

Ergocalciferol 12.5 mg (500 IU), sugar, wheat flour, vegetable starch, podsolnecna oil matnoe oil, talc, wax).

Of drugs

Besides the exchange of phosphorus and calcium in the body, stripping them in the gut and deposition in the bones. Protects against rickets (vitamin D, a condition caused by insufficient vitamin D in the body), and cures rickets.

Storage conditions

Bean : List B. In dry the dark place at a temperature of no higher than 15 ° C

Shelf life

Bean : 1 year

Indications for use

Rickets. Violation of okoloshitovidnykh glands. Tetania (convulsions). Osteomalacia (softening of bones). Osteoporosis (eating disorders bone accompanied by the increase in its friability). Tuberculosis bones. Erythematosus Tuberculosis (TB skin disease).

Dosing and Administration

In order to prevent rickets in newborns and infants vitamin D 2 assign pregnant women and nursing mothers. At 30-32-i week of pregnancy appoint vitamin D 2 fractional doses for a period of 10 days, at the rate of 400,000 to 600,000 ME. Nursing mothers appoint ME 500 a day in the first days of lactation before applying the product in the child. Donoshennym children are beginning to yield drug as a preventive measure to 3-nedelnogo age. Total dose for a course of prevention is usually about 300,000 ME. Premature children bliznetsam children in artsvenom feeding, and poor domestic and climatic conditions beginning to vitamin D 2 from the 2nd week of life. Total dose for a course is in these cases and 600,000 ME.

Side-Effects

In applying high doses can gipervitaminoz D (excess supply of vitamin D in the body), accompanied by loss of appetite, nausea, headache, general weakness, increases in temperature, the appearance in the urine protein cylinders, white (uniform of blood), as well as an increase in the calcium content in the blood and providing it with the urine, calcium deposition in the kidneys, lungs and blood vessels.

Contraindications

There is a need for caution in a ergokalyshferola elderly and the sick lejachim. Ergocalciferol can contribute to the development of atherosclerosis. The drug has the ability to accumulate in the body.

Form of

Bonbons 500 ME (mass 0.5 g) in a package of 50 grams (100 pieces); Alcohol 0.5% solution (200,000 U 1 ml) in vials to 5 ml; Oil 0,125% solution (ME 50000 1 ml) bottles in 10 ml, oil 0.0625% solution (ME 25000 1 ml) bottles in 10 ml.

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