Cardivit

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and folic acid (also called vitamin B9) are water-soluble vitamins. Vitamin D is fat-soluble. Ascorbic acid helps cells hold together by building collagen, which is sometimes called the body's biological glue. It is also a powerful antioxidant in watery media. Vitamin D is known as the antirachitic or sunshine vitamin, and it acts like a hormone (a pro-hormone). It spares calcium in the body by reducing calcium excretion and increasing calcium absorption. Folic acid is needed for proper brain function and has an important part in mental and emotional health. It helps make DNA and RNA, the body's genetic material, and matters most when growth is high, such as infancy, adolescence and pregnancy. It also controls the blood level of the amino acid homocysteine. High levels of homocysteine seem to be linked with some chronic conditions, such as heart disease.

Indications: deficiency of vitamin C, vitamin D and folic acid associated with cardiovascular diseases. Deficiency of vitamin C (scurvy, generalized weakness, gum bleeding, after acute infections, alcoholism and after surgery). Wound healing. Prevention of cold, flu and influenza. Megaloblastic anemia and anemia of nutritional origin. Deficiency of vitamin D (intestinal malabsorption, chronic liver disease, osteomalacia, osteopenia, rickets, hypocalcemia, institutionalized patients, people who use sunscreen, black people, and people who cover most of their body surface for cultural or religious reasons). Familial hypophosphatemia and hypoparathyroidism. Use as an adjuvant with a calcium supplement. Prevention of osteoporosis and fracture, alone or together with a calcium supplement. Conditions where the need for vitamin C, vitamin D and folic acid goes up (pregnancy, lactation, smoking, old age, and living in a polluted environment).

Pregnancy: This preparation has no contraindication in pregnancy.

Lactation: There is no contraindication to using this preparation during lactation.

Contraindications: This combination is contraindicated in hypercalcemia, hyperparathyroidism, renal calculi, nephrolithiasis and Zoolinger-Ellison syndrome. It is also contraindicated with concomitant Digoxin therapy, which requires careful monitoring of the serum calcium level.