In their practice, each doctor has repeatedly faced a situation where the patient began taking the drug on his own or on the advice of others, “forgetting” to consult a specialist. This state of affairs can play a cruel joke with a sick person, and attempts to use a medicine, even vitamins, without reading the instructions are very dangerous. For example, Aevit vitamins, the instructions for which describe in detail all the features of taking this drug, clearly indicate that even this complex remedy, which includes fat-soluble vitamins A and E, must be taken under medical supervision.
Vitamins May Harm Your Health
The domestic consumer (patient) has the opinion that vitamin complexes produced by the Russian manufacturer cannot harm the body even when these drugs are taken in unlimited doses.
Any vitamins in amounts that exceed the prophylactic dose for a healthy body or the therapeutic one for a patient weakened by vitamin deficiency begin to accumulate in organs and tissues and have a negative effect on them. The complex fat-soluble Aevit vitamins deserve special attention. The instructions attached to the drug clearly indicate the maximum dose of this medicine depending on age. The reason is simple - even though vitamins A and E are substances necessary for the normal functioning of vision, the functioning of the nervous system, bone growth, and the synthesis of steroid hormones, including sex hormones, their intake in the body must be strictly limited.
It has long been known that poisoning most often occurs with prolonged use of the drug Aevit. Side effects of the drug are largely due to the fact that retinol (vitamin A) and tocopherol (vitamin E) are fat-soluble vitamins. These substances can accumulate in the body and create a depot, that is, they remain in the cells of lipid tissue for a sufficiently long time.
How "Aevit" acts on the body
Each patient who has signs of lack of vitamins A and E in the body — fragility of nails, deterioration of hair and skin, visual impairment, especially twilight, and a tendency to frequent fractures — should consult a specialist before taking Aevit capsules. The description of this drug clearly indicates that the possibility of a negative effect of its components directly depends on the dose taken by the patient, as well as on the duration of the course of treatment. Even when prescribing this vitamin complex with indicated indications - the use of strict diets with limited intake of fats in the body, disorders of digestibility and digestibility of food - the course of treatment is limited to a month of admission and a subsequent long break.
If the patient wants to take Aevit vitamins on their own, the instruction will tell you the most common indications and contraindications, as well as describe the most common signs of an overdose of retinol and tocopherol in the body. There are only a few contraindications for taking vitamin capsules inside, but the patient’s age (not to be used by adolescents under 14 years old), the state of the body (negative effect on a developing pregnancy), and, of course, signs of an overdose deserve special attention.
It should be noted that the fact that some patients simultaneously begin to apply the oil solution obtained from the capsules on the skin and take the Aevit vitamins inside. The instruction categorically prohibits such treatment on their own, without the supervision of a qualified doctor. After all, the active ingredients of this medicine, dissolved in oil, are perfectly absorbed through the skin, absorbed and enter the systemic circulation. This further increases the risk of developing toxic reactions, which in some cases have to be treated for a very long and painful period.