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Colecalciferol 800iu Capsules 30s
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GCOLC0800030
Colecalciferol 800iu Capsules can be used to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency in adults, the elderly and children over 12 years. The active ingredient is colecalciferol, also known as Vitamin D3.
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Colecalciferol 800iu Capsules
Colecalciferol 800iu Capsules can be used to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency in adults, the elderly and children over 12 years. The active ingredient is colecalciferol, also known as Vitamin D3.
Vitamin D is found in the diet and is also produced in the skin after exposure to the sun. Vitamin D3 regulates the uptake
and metabolism of calcium as well as the incorporation of calcium in bone tissue. Deficiency of vitamin D may occur when your diet or lifestyle does not provide you enough vitamin D or when your body requires more vitamin D (for instance when you are pregnant).
Directions
Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.
Swallow the capsules whole with water. Do not chew the capsules.
The recommended doses are:
- Severe vitamin D deficiency (for adults and the elderly): Your doctor will usually prescribe you a dose of 1-4 capsules daily for up to 12 weeks. The amount will depend on how low your vitamin D levels are and how you respond to treatment. Your doctor will then tell you to take 1-2 capsules daily to maintain your vitamin D levels.
- Moderate vitamin D deficiency (for adults and the elderly) or prevention of vitamin D deficiency: Your doctor will usually prescribe 1-2 capsules daily.
- Osteoporosis (you will also be taking other medicines for this): Your doctor will usually prescribe 1 capsule daily. You should check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are unsure.
- Vitamin D deficiency in adolescents over 12 years: Your doctor will usually prescribe you 1 capsule daily.
Ingredients
- Active Ingredient: Colecalciferol 800 IU (equivalent to 20 micrograms Vitamin D3).
- Other Ingredients: Dependent on brand.
Cautions
- If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, think you may be pregnant, or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine. Colecalciferol capsules can be used during pregnancy, but only if you have been diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency and following the advice of your doctor.
- You can take Colecalciferol capsules with or without food.
- Colecalciferol capsules is not indicated for use in children under 12 years.
Do not take Colecalciferol capsules:
- If you are allergic to vitamin D or any of the other ingredients of this medicine.
- If you have high levels of vitamin D in your blood (hypervitaminosis D).
- If you have kidney stones or calcium deposits in your kidneys.
- If you have high levels of calcium in your blood (hypercalcaemia) or urine (hypercalciuria).
- If you have severe kidney problems (severe renal impairment).
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Colecalciferol capsules if:
- You have high tendency to kidney stone formation.
- You are being treated for heart disease.
- You have cancer or any other condition that may have aff ected your bones.
- You have parathyroid hormone imbalance (pseudohypoparathyroidism).
If you have any of the following conditions, your doctor will monitor the levels of calcium or phosphate in your blood, or the level of calcium in your urine:
- You are on long term treatment with this medicine or are already taking additional doses of calcium or vitamin D.
- You have kidney problems,
- You suffer from sarcoidosis (an immune system disorder which may affect your liver, lungs, skin or lymph nodes).
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines. This is especially important if you are taking:
- Calcium containing products in high doses, for as these increase the risk of high blood calcium levels.
- Heart medicines (cardiac glycosides such as digoxin).Your doctor may monitor your heart with an electrocardiogram (ECG) and Thiazide diuretics (used to treat high blood pressure), as these reduce the urinary excretion of calcium and can increase the risk of high blood calcium levels.
- Anticonvulsants medicines used to treat epilepsy (such as phenytoin) or medicines to make you sleep (hydantoin or barbiturates such as phenobarbitone), as these can decrease the eff ects of vitamin D.
- Glucocorticoids (steroid hormones such as hydrocortisone or prednisolone), as these can decrease the eff ects of vitamin D.
- Magnesium containing products (e.g. antacids), as these should not be used during treatment with vitamin D because of the risk of high magnesium levels.
- Calcitonin, etidronate, gallium nitrate, pamidronate or plicamycin, as these decrease blood calcium levels.
- Phosphorus containing products in large doses, as these in large doses increase the risk of high phosphate blood levels.
- Laxatives (such as paraffin oil), or a cholesterol lowering medicine called colestyramine, as these may reduce the absorption of vitamin D.
- Actinomycin (a medicine used to treat some forms of cancer) and imidazole antifungals (medicines such as clotrimazole and ketoconazole used to treat fungal diseases), as these may interfere with the metabolism of vitamin D.
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