Calcium Gluconate 500 mg 20 tabs

Composition
 Active ingredient: calcium gluconate;
 each tablet contains 500 mg of calcium gluconate;
 excipients: potato starch, talc, calcium stearate.
 Dosage form
 Tablets.
 Main physical and chemical properties
 Solid, well-formed, round cylinders with flat top and bottom surfaces, beveled edges, and a dividing score line, white in color. Marbling is allowed on the surface of the tablets.
 Pharmacotherapeutic group
 Mineral supplements. Calcium preparations.
 Indications
 Conditions associated with hypocalcemia, increased cell membrane permeability, impaired conduction of nerve impulses in muscle tissue. Hypoparathyroidism (latent tetany, osteoporosis), vitamin D metabolism disorders (rickets, spasmophilia, osteomalacia), hyperphosphatemia in patients with chronic renal failure. Increased calcium demand (periods of rapid growth in children and adolescents, pregnancy or breastfeeding), low Ca2+ intake in diet, impaired calcium metabolism in the postmenopausal period, bone fractures. Enhanced Ca2+ excretion (prolonged bed rest, chronic diarrhea, hypocalcemia during prolonged use of diuretics, antiepileptic drugs, glucocorticosteroids). In complex therapy: bleeding of various etiologies, allergic diseases (serum sickness, urticaria, fever syndrome, itching dermatoses, angioneurotic edema); bronchial asthma, dystrophic nutritional edema, pulmonary tuberculosis, eclampsia, parenchymal hepatitis, toxic liver damage, nephritis. As an antidote in poisoning by magnesium salts, oxalic acid, soluble fluoride salts (calcium gluconate interacts to form insoluble and non-toxic calcium oxalate and calcium fluoride).
 Contraindications
 Hypersensitivity to the components of the drug. Hypercalcemia, pronounced hypercalciuria, hypercoagulation, tendency to thrombosis, severe atherosclerosis, increased blood clotting, calcium nephrourolithiasis, severe renal failure, sarcoidosis, taking digitalis preparations.