It is important to combine calcium with vitamin D to improve absorption. Element receipt rates:
Calcium preparations for children
Doctors may prescribe tablet or liquid calcium for children in combination with vitamins. Popular means are:
- Monopreparations - are inexpensive, they contain citrate, lactate or calcium gluconate. Representatives: Vitacalcin, Calcium-Sandoz.
- Combined funds - calcium salts with vitamins. They are better absorbed, easier to carry. Examples: Calcium-D3 Nycomed, Calcemin.
- Multivitamin - in addition to the main element, contain the main set of minerals. Vitamins with calcium for children: Vitamins, Multitabs.
When children take drugs with calcium, there are some peculiarities:
- At one time, the baby cannot absorb more than 600 mg of the element, therefore, physiological doses are prescribed, divided into several doses (between meals). Excess mineral will be passed out in stool or urine.
- Calcium for children up to a year is better to give at night, because then its absorption increases.
- It is useful to drink preparations with citrus juices, which contain citrates for better absorption of nutrients. If the mineral is represented by gluconate, then it is washed down with milk or clean water without gas.
- The intake of drugs should not coincide with the use of iron-containing products.
- According to the instructions, babies can only take oral medications.
- Side effects of vitamins: constipation, bloating, diarrhea, abdominal pain, allergies.
- Contraindications: hypercalcemia, hyperparathyroidism, kidney pathology, neoplasms, phenylketonuria. Means with caution are prescribed for oxalate nephropathy, a tendency to urolithiasis.
- For children, gluconate (well tolerated), lactate (does not irritate the intestines), citrate (citric acid, reduces the likelihood of kidney stones), calcium chelate (absorbed by 100%) are suitable.
- Not suitable for children is chloride (irritates the intestines), calcium carbonate (leads to belching).
Tablets based on calcium carbonate and vitamin D3 are poorly absorbed, because the element is presented in a complex form. The remedy is prescribed from three years:
Complivit Calcium D3
For babies, Complivit Calcium-D3 powder and tablets are available. The first is diluted with water until a suspension is obtained, the second is taken from the age of three:
Calcid
The preparation based on eggshell Calcid is supplemented with a complex of vitamins of group B, PP. It is used in children from three years of age:
Kaltsinova
The composition of the drug Kaltsinova includes calcium in combination with ascorbic acid, vitamins A, D, pyridoxine. The tool is used from the age of three:
Calcemin
The composition of the preparation Calcemin includes a combination of a microelement with vitamin D3, copper, boron, manganese, zinc. The product is intended for children over 5 years of age:
Vitamins Calcium+
Chewing marmalade Vitamishki is additionally enriched with vitamin D3, phosphorus for the active growth and development of babies.
It is used from the age of three:
Multi-tabs Kid Calcium+
It is useful for children 2-7 years old to take vitamins Multitabs, which provide the formation of bone tissue, strengthen tooth enamel, and serve as a prevention of caries.
