To ensure the vital functions of the human body, a variety of useful components and nutrients, as well as vitamins with minerals, must systematically enter the body. This list also includes calcium, which is involved in numerous internal processes. It plays an important role in the functioning and development of the whole organism.
When a deficiency of this trace element arises in the body for any reason, doctors prescribe calcium chloride. What it is and why you need it will be considered in this article.
Description of the substance
The chemical formula of the substance called calcium chloride is CaCl2. It consists of rhombic crystals with a boiling point of 1600 °, melting point - 772 °, and density - 2.512 g / cm3.
Calcium chloride absorbs water vapor well and is very hygroscopic. Solid hydrates are formed first, and then a liquid. In an anhydrous state, a substance with increased heat dissolves in a liquid. Also, calcium chloride is susceptible to dissolution in acetone, liquid ammonia and lower alcohols, with which it forms solvates.
The substance is obtained as a by-product in the production of soda by the ammonia method or in the manufacture of the Berthollet salt — KClO3.
With the participation of calcium ions in the body, nerve impulses are transmitted, cardiac muscles contract, and bone tissue is strengthened. Unfortunately, in its pure form, calcium is almost not absorbed by the body, therefore, if a deficiency occurs, it is necessary to start taking it simultaneously with soluble salts.
The optimal drug in this sense is calcium chloride. What is it in detail Pharmacists at the pharmacy will tell.
General directions for taking the drug
This substance is able to significantly reduce the manifestations of allergies arising from preventive vaccinations during periods of flowering plants, as well as food and drug. With seasonal cough and colds, the drug helps to cope with viruses faster, strengthening immunity.
Only a doctor can prescribe and correctly determine the dose for admission, based on certain violations in the body's work. They can be associated with deviations in the functioning of nervous activity, malfunctions of the heart, with internal bleeding, inflammatory diseases. It is also known that:
- The possibility of using the substance by pregnant and lactating women has been proven.
- Apply it externally: washed mucous membranes, eyes, wounds.
- Calcium is useful for adolescents during the period of active growth in combination with vitamin D.
- The drug is indicated for those who, due to circumstances, are long immobilized.
- Calcium chloride, reviews confirm this, is an indispensable tool for poisoning with magnesium and fluoride salts, oxalic acid.
- This substance is useful for people with brittle bones, that is, suffering from a deficiency of bone calcium.
- It is necessary to take the drug for internal bleeding.
- Use it as a solvent for medical mixtures.
- The substance helps to remove excess fluid from the body.
Application for the treatment of diseases
One of the important aspects of the use of this substance is recognized as its use for medical purposes, most often these are the so-called "hot injections". Calcium chloride is used in the following cases:
- It is administered intravenously in the following diseases: hypochloremia, hyponatremia, dehydration. It is especially important if these disorders appeared against the background of toxic dyspepsia, shock, acute blood loss, indomitable vomiting, after operations.
- With the help of calcium chloride, hepatitis and nephritis, pneumonia and pleurisy are treated.
- The tool helps to treat dermatological diseases.
- As an adjuvant, the drug is used for such allergic diseases: hay fever, urticaria, angioedema, serum sickness.
- The use of the substance as a hemostatic agent in gastrointestinal diseases, diseases of the lungs, nose and uterine bleeding is justified.
- The drug is used to enhance labor, with skin diseases.
Calcium Chloride: instructions for use
The medicine is available in the form of a solution intended for injection. One milliliter of solution contains 100 mg of active substance.
The drug is used mainly for injections, but if necessary, you can start ingestion. It must be remembered that you should not prescribe a solution of calcium chloride yourself, this can only be done by a doctor. Ways of application:
- Jet. The drug is administered intravenously and very slowly, within three to five minutes - 5 ml.
- Drip. In this method, five to ten milliliters of a solution is diluted in a five percent glucose solution or isotonic sodium chloride solution (up to 200 ml). The rate of administration should not exceed six drops per minute in order to avoid the onset of bradycardia. The use of the drug with hypercalcemia, thrombosis, atherosclerosis is strictly prohibited.
- Ingestion. Drink a solution of calcium chloride (calcium chloride) after eating twice a day in a single dosage from ten to fifteen milliliters.
- Application by electrophoresis.
Allergy Calcium Chloride
The use of this drug for the treatment of allergies is one of the most popular areas of medicine. For these purposes, it is prescribed in conjunction with such well-known drugs as Suprastin or Tavegil. The effect is achieved by effectively cleaning the body, removing the accumulated toxins, harmful substances and allergens from it. The remedy for seizures, which can sometimes be accompanied by allergic attacks, helps well.
The action of calcium chloride is fast and effective. The permissible dose for oral administration is one and a half grams. Five to ten milligrams are dissolved intravenously to administer the drug.
Application in cosmetology
This drug is universal and very effective in many areas, the main thing is to know what and how to do. Calcium chloride in cosmetology it is used for applying peeling masks in order to clean the skin. The recipe for such a procedure is affordable and simple. To carry it out you need to prepare:
- one ampoule of calcium chloride;
- clean warm water;
- lotion or face tonic;
- baby soap;
- cotton pads.
The sequence of actions is as follows:
- To clean the skin of the face with a tonic using a cotton pad and pat it dry with a clean cloth.
- Moisten a clean cotton pad in a solution of calcium chloride and wipe the skin without pressure.
- Then, with the same disk, draw several times on the soap and again easily wipe the skin on which white flakes form.
- The procedure (paragraphs 2 and 3) can be performed up to four times, each repetition - with a new cotton pad.
- Then gently rinse off the skin with warm water.
- Finally, apply moisturizer to the skin with gentle movements.
Non-medical use
Judging by the reviews of patients, this substance is able to: restore the balance of trace elements, strengthen the walls of cells and blood vessels, prevent inflammation, increase infectious resistance. All this is calcium chloride. What is it in other manifestations that not everyone knows about is listed below:
- reagent against ice for road surfaces;
- the substance with which waterproofing liquid rubber is made;
- one of the important components of drilling fluids;
- cement slurry element in oil wells;
- accelerator of concrete hardening and cement hydration;
- improves strength and frost resistance characteristics of silicate brick;
- used in the manufacture of pulp;
- used as a food additive in the production of cheese, jelly, cottage cheese, jams, dairy products;
- Using a solution, car tires and rubber are made.
Contraindications and side effects
Like other medicines, calcium chloride can also cause side effects. What it is? A side effect of drugs is called such non-specific changes in the body that occur simultaneously with the pharmacologically expected effects with the correct use of the drug.
In order to minimize such manifestations, it is necessary to strictly observe the recommended dosages, as well as the rules for the administration of drugs. It is important to consider before taking the drug its possible interaction with other drugs, in the case of calcium chloride - containing phosphorus.
Reviews say that when taking calcium, side effects can manifest as heartburn, slow heart rate, arrhythmia, fever in the body.
Contraindications to the use of calcium chloride are atherosclerosis, a tendency to thrombosis and an increased content of calcium in the blood.