Something about Zentiva (vitamin E)

Zentiva is an effective medication, mainly prescribed for the prevention and treatment of hypovitaminosis. But include his doctor and a set of therapeutic prescriptions for many other diseases.

If a woman has a menstrual cycle, the gynecologist will prescribe an effective vitamin E of Zentiva. The instruction for this medication contains information on the possibility of applying it during the waiting period for the appearance of the baby, breastfeeding. So, vitamin E "Zentiva" during pregnancy and lactation is taken only according to the doctor's prescription. In no case it can not be taken uncontrollably during the indicated periods of a woman's life.

If the patient has degenerative or proliferative changes in the joints or ligamentous apparatus, the spine, this medication can also help him. It is not without reason that it is additionally included in the complex therapy of these diseases.

This very effective vitamin is prescribed in the case of inadequate and unbalanced nutrition, excessive physical exertion, in old age. He is still good at skin care, since he has healing and restoring properties, nourishes and oxygenates the skin. Some patients use it even in the treatment of psoriasis, burns and injuries.

The "Zentiva" (vitamin E) remedy is also helpful in cases of convalescence, that is, in the case of a person suffering from an acute infectious disease, especially if it has been difficult and it is required to restore damaged functions while maintaining the immune system performance at the maximum.

Muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - this medication is also included in the complex treatment of these diseases.

As with any medicine, zentiva (vitamin E) has contraindications. Among them, myocardial infarction (acute), and sensitivity to tocopherol acetate, which is the main substance of the drug, and to other, auxiliary components (methylparaben, glycerol, gelatin, etc.). You can not take this vitamin and children. If the patient has a risk of developing thromboembolism, it is also contraindicated for the use of this medication.

Zentiva (vitamin E) is used with caution in the treatment of severe cardiosclerosis, myocardial diseases.

Among the side effects of the drug - an allergic reaction from both the digestive system (gastralgia, diarrhea, nausea), and from the hematopoiesis system (with prolonged use or exceeded dosage - deterioration of blood clotting, etc.). If the patient has a predisposition, then occasionally, but there may be creatinuria, thrombosis, pulmonary thromboembolism, thrombophlebitis, and, it is possible that the serum levels of cholesterol will rise, and the activity of creatine kinase will increase.

Zentiva is produced in the form of oval capsules of red color, which are in bottles of dark glass, which are packed, in turn, into cardboard boxes. Capsules come in 100 mg, 200 mg, 400 mg each. Inside, there is a light yellow transparent oil. This drug is dispensed in pharmacies without a doctor's prescription.

Adults receiving capsules weighing one hundred milligrams are assigned per day for two to four pieces. If the doctor ascribes to take capsules for two hundred milligrams, then enough per day and one or two, if four hundred, then the intake is limited to one capsule per day. Complementing hormonal therapy in the violation of the menstrual cycle, the doctor appoints tocopherol every other day from three hundred to four hundred milligrams consecutively from the seventeenth day of the cycle.

Store the medicine Zentiva (vitamin E) in a dry place, protected from sunlight, preferably at a temperature of 15-25 ° C and always away from children, in places inaccessible to them. The drug is suitable for three years. After the specified period, it can not be accepted.