Calcium is a vital macrocell, which is involved in the processes of normal bone formation, blood coagulation, is also necessary in maintaining cardiac activity, in the transmission of nerve impulses. With myasthenia gravis and muscular dystrophy, calcium improves muscle contraction. It reduces the permeability of the vascular wall. With parenteral administration, calcium gluconate excites the sympathetic nervous system and enhances adrenaline secretion by the adrenal glands. It also causes a moderate increase in urine output.
Is calcium gluconate harmful? This drug is a relatively safe calcium salt (less dangerous than calcium chloride). In a home medicine cabinet, this drug can be put in the form of tablets or powders.
Calcium gluconate allows you to normalize calcium when it is deficient or, if necessary, quickly increase the level in the blood. Its entry into the body stimulates the metabolism, fever, activates the cardiovascular and nervous systems, as well as the thrombosis system. In addition, it enhances the action of pacemakers, which increase heart contractions, weaken the influence of potassium and magnesium ions, increase diuresis - all this is done by calcium gluconate.
The formula for this drug is C12H22CaO14.
Indications for its use are as follows:
- hypoparathyroidism;
- nephritis;
- hypocalcemia of various origins;
- parenchymal hepatitis;
- skin diseases;
- eclampsia;
- liver damage of toxic origin;
- exudative and inflammatory processes.
It can be used as an additional tool for the treatment of allergies, including drug. As an additional means of regulating hemostasis, it is used for uterine bleeding, also nasal, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal. In case of poisoning with magnesium salts, as well as oxalates and its soluble salts, it is used as an antidote.
However, calcium gluconate, like all other drugs with this macronutrient, can aggravate coronary heart disease, and in patients with angina pectoris it can initiate an attack of chest pain (since it causes stimulation of the heart, it promotes hypoxia of myocardial tissue). With the simultaneous administration of calcium gluconate and cardiac glycosides by patients with heart failure, their relative overdose may occur.
Please note that calcium gluconate is contraindicated in case of individual hypersensitivity, with a tendency to thrombosis, with angina pectoris. Also, it can not be taken with severe renal failure, with hypercalcemia, severe hypercalciuria.
It should be noted that it is necessary to use with caution in patients with minor hypercalciuria, minor kidney damage, or in patients with a history of urolithiasis. The use of this drug requires constant monitoring of the level of calcium excretion in urine. Patients prone to the formation of stones in the urinary system should increase the daily amount of fluid consumed. Intramuscularly administered to children is not recommended. When used simultaneously with calcium channel blockers, it reduces the strength of their action. When using calcium gluconate and colestyramine, its absorption decreases from the digestive tract. With the oral administration of tetracyclines with this drug, the strength of their action decreases due to impaired absorption in the digestive tract. Calcium gluconate increases the toxicity of quinidine.
Before using this drug, be sure to consult a specialist!