Acical-D®

Calcium + Vitamin D

Prescribing Details



Description
Description: Nutrition is the most important strategy to prevent osteoporosis and other bone related diseases. Calcium and Vitamin D are the macro nutrients for bone. Without Vitamin D very little Calcium is absorbed.

Uses
No Data

Indications
  • Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis
  • Prevention and treatment of osteomalacia, rickets
  • Prevention of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
  • To maintain strong bone growth and teeth
  • For bone development and constant regeneration of bone
  • Pregnancy & lactation
  • Deficiency state of calcium, Vitamin D
  • As nutritional supplemen

Dosage and administration
2 tablets per day, preferably 1 tablet in the morning and 1 tablet in the evening.

Use in pregnancy & lactation
During pregnancy and lactation treatment should always be under the direction of a physician. During pregnancy and lactation, requirements for Calcium and Vitamin D are increased but in deciding on the required supplementation allowances should be made for availability of these agents from other sources.

Geriatric use
No Data

Precautions
Patients with mild to moderate renal failure or mild hypercalciuria should be supervised carefully. Periodic checks of plasma Calcium levels and urinary Calcium excretion should be made in patients with mild to moderate renal failure or mild hypercalciuria.

Side effects
The use of Calcium supplements has, rarely, given rise to mild gastro-intestinal disturbances, such as constipation, flatulence, nausea, gastric pain, diarrhoea. Following administration of Vitamin D supplements occasional skin rash has been reported. Hypercalciuria, and in rare cases hypocalcaemia have been seen with long term treatment at high dosages. Side-effects from micronutrient are rare.

Contraindications
Hypersensitivity to any of the tablet ingredients. Absolute contraindications are hypercalcaemia resulting for example from myeloma, bone metastases or other malignant bone disease, sarcoidosis; primary hyperparathyroidism and Vitamin D overdosage. Severe renal failure.

Drug interactions
It has possible interaction with digoxin, antacids containing Calcium, aluminium or magnesium, other Calcium supplements, calcitriol or other Vitamin D supplements; tetracycline, doxycycline, minocycline or oxytetracycline etc. So before taking any of these drugs with Acical-D, suggestions of the physicians are needed.

Overdose
The most serious consequences of acute or chronic overdose is hypercalcaemia. Pharmaceutical precautions: Should be stored in cool place (below 30ºc) and dry place. Keep out of reach of children.

Preparation
No Data

Pharmaceutical precautions
Store in a cool dry place, protect from light.

Presentation
Acical-D ® Tablet: A light yellow color, vanilla flavor, oblong film coated tablet, break line on one side & another side engraved with ACI. Each tablet contains Colecalciferol (as Vitamin D3) 200 IU, Calcium (as Calcium Carbonate) 500 mg.

Package quantitie
Acical-D ® Tablet: Each container contains 30 tablets.