Overconsumption of vitamin medicines bears risk of a serious disease. As it is possible to receive gipervitaminoz vitamin E (tocopherol) and what symptoms of overdose what to do that intake of vitamins was safe for health of adults and children — about it further in our article.
Vitamin E: general information
Tocopherol is also called fertility vitamin because it is necessary for the correct functioning of reproductive organs. Its shortage reduces gonadotrophin hormone secretion that promotes a sperm degeneration at men.
Vitamin E represents group of the connections called tokoferola.
Vitamin E together with vitamins A, D and K they belong to fat-soluble group. It means that they are stored in an organism (but water-soluble vitamins are not emitted in urine, as, for example) and contain mainly in fatty tissue and adrenal glands.
Tocopherol, along with vitamins A and With, is powerful antioxidant which protects an organism from the oxidizing stress and damage of cages caused by free radicals.
Whether you know? Scientists discovered vitamins and gave them names. In the scientific environment it was decided to call new substances letters. It would seem, a number of letters in names of vitamins has to be continuous. But is not present. After letter E goes To and where small letters between them disappeared? All of them were already given newly opened (alas, it is wrong) to substances.
Vitamin E overdose reasons
If replenishment of our organism vitamins happens naturally (to food), then there are no reasons to worry. Nutritionists advise to include products in which there are as much as possible useful substances in our diet. Most often, overdose of these substances happens in case of intake of synthetic vitamins. And still, when we use pharmaceutical additives, without consulting with the doctor, the druggist or trusting the false information which is contained in various unchecked sources.
Besides, it is very easy to receive overdose when different vitamin medicines with very similar structure are used at the same time. In such cases it is necessary to analyze the shares of concrete vitamins which are contained in them.
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The overdose without artificial additives can arise at people who adhere to a monodiet or eat the same products for a long time.
Besides, coexistence of some diseases can lower thresholds of toxicity of oil-soluble vitamins and thereof reception even of small daily doses can cause glut symptoms.
What amount of vitamin E is necessary for overdose?
The overdose badly affects an organism and can lead to certain diseases. But tocopherol has low toxicity. Even the double overdose of medicines with tocopherol does not cause painful reactions.
It is quite difficult to overdose the tocopherol received from food, but, taking the pharmaceutical drugs or additives, it is worth paying special attention to a possibility of overdose.
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However, even in these cases the excess of tocopherol (after metabolism inclusion) is brought out of an organism. Only long doses over 1000 mg/day can cause muscle weakness, a headache, fatigue, violations in work of intestines and visual impairment.
Often the overdose and poisoning happen at intramuscular injections of high doses of tocopherol.
Whether you know? It is necessary during the summer there are more vegetables and fruit and to save up vitamins for the future — it the general delusion does not reflect reality at all. Except fat-soluble (And, D, E and J), all other vitamins B a current of several hours are washed away from an organism.
Symptoms
Substance rather safe, but its overdose can cause:
- fatigue and headaches;
- meteorizm and faints;
- decrease in blood clotting;
- weakening of effect of vitamin K;
- decrease in level of vitamin A in an organism;
- violation of immunity, metabolism of a hypophysis;
- decrease in work of a thyroid gland and adrenal glands;
- increase in risk of thrombosis and diarrhea;
- visual violations and muscle weakness.
At adults
The overdose of medicine leads to such negative consequences:
- the most widespread undesirable effect is allergic reaction. It can be in the form of a small tortoiseshell or local hypostasis when drug is injected intramuscularly;
- excessively slows down work of cells of a liver and kidneys that not at once it becomes noticeable. The person feels weak, at him the working capacity sharply decreases. Therefore for long-term use of this substance in the therapeutic purposes it is recommended to conduct laboratory blood tests regularly;
- symptoms of overdose of the tocopherol received by means of intramuscular injections can cause such complications: emergence of skin reddening or development of hardening in the place of an injection;
- the overdose gives an impetus to diseases of digestive system: to an enterokolit (inflammation of a small and thick intestine), increase in emergence of hepatic liquid in a stomach (ascites);
- the excess of medicine negatively influences integrity of a vascular wall therefore in hard cases the cerebral hemorrhage is possible. This substance strongly increases blood pressure.
Whether you know? Having eaten for a dessert four ripe bananas with a bright yellow skin, the person will increase the vitamin stock by 800 mkg of a pyridoxine (B6 vitamin).
At children
The tocopherol surplus at children can be shown by indispositions in the form of diarrhea, rash, indigestion.
Substantially substance influences blood cells, reducing quantity of platelets and leukocytes. This symptom is observed at significant overdose of tocopherol at the child. Other terrible complication is sepsis (blood poisoning) if medicine is used for treatment of premature children. In pediatrics such injections are used at glut by vitamin D. The wrong or excessive introduction of the medicines containing tocopherol leads to calcium lowering of the level subsequently.
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Before appointing something, the children's doctor examines the child and, according to the obtained data, appoints the necessary amount of medicine. If adults, without consultation at the pediatrician, independently appoint to the kid any vitamins including tocopherol, then there can be undesirable consequences.
Surplus symptoms at kids:
- the head hurts and is turned;
- the sight falls or periodically appears doubled in eyes;
- the stomach or heart hurts.
Kids have a short wind even at rest when the kid physically does not strain. At a gipervitaminoza spasms of extremities can develop.
Symptoms at each child can differ, but any strangenesses in behavior of the kid have to disturb adults, especially at long-term intake of medications.
As useful products for sight are considered: pumpkin, onions, garlic, fish, milk, berry of a sanberra and also kiwi, cherry and currant.
At pregnant women
Women who consume too much tocopherol can test visual impairments, muscle weakness and a headache. Besides, the excess of this substance can have an adverse effect on the developing fruit.
Too high doses of tocopherol during pregnancy can adversely influence a fruit though still it was not scientifically proved (as only researches on animals were conducted).
Also, for pregnant women recommend to use such vitamins as: B8, F, D3, B1, N, B12
What is the excess of vitamin E dangerous by and as to reveal it?
Tocopherol is one of vitamins which deficiency is noticeable in an organism. It should be added it in the preventive purposes. Unfortunately, sometimes there is a glut of an organism tocopherol. It is especially dangerous at pregnancy.
This medicine influences organs of vision and blood vessels, both mother, and the child who was not born yet. Therefore it is very important to woman to receive tocopherol during pregnancy, but in moderate quantities. It is better to consult with the doctor about intake of any vitamin supplements during pregnancy. Both the deficiency, and excess of tocopherol during pregnancy are harmful.
Whether you know? Vitamin E allows ladies to remain longer young. This substance produces the collagen and elastin which are responsible for elasticity of face skin and womanly forms. Its shortcoming allows to develop to a cataract of eyes.
Babies receive all useful substances only from maternal milk. In order that the child received the necessary amount of such substances — them, first of all, mother has to receive. For the feeding women the receiving 14 mg of tocopherol daily is recommended.
Daily need of the healthy adult for tocopherol makes 8-13 mg.
It is important! If the child or the adult had above-mentioned symptoms and weakness, then it is the best of all to address the expert who will send the patient to laboratory researches. Only as a result of the analysis it will be possible to specify precisely whether the tocopherol surplus in an organism takes place.
What to do at a gepertaviminoza
At the first symptoms of poisoning with tocopherol it is necessary to address to hospital immediately. The overdose during pregnancy, at kids and other patients usually happens because of negligence. If it already occurred, in the next two weeks the patients have to be careful in food. It is the best of all to refuse products in which the high content of tocopherol completely.
Here incomplete list of such products:
- vegetable oils and sprouts of wheat;
- walnuts, earth;
- almonds and eggs;
- fillet of a herring;
- spinach and garlic;
- peaches and avocado;
- green peas and parsley;
- broccoli, white cabbage, salad;
- dried plums and blackcurrant.
Important! It should be noted that vegetable oils and oils with a cold extraction contain much more tocopherol, than those which are made in the food industry. In the second type of production about 75% of vitamins are destroyed.
Also injured should stop immediately drug intake at which there is this medicine.
Special antidote from glut tocopherol does not exist, in modern medicine the symptomatic therapy is performed: intravenous solutions for plasma replacement which lower pressure that serves as a gepatoprotektor (protects cells of a liver). In hard cases the victims take a course of resuscitation actions.
How to avoid overdose
Food which you eat has to differ in a variety, it is impossible to eat the same product for a long time as it is recommended in fashionable monodiets (cheese, kefiric, banana and so forth).
Tocopherol is recommended to be accepted as a part of polyvitaminic complexes, together with other representatives of group B, especially B9 vitamin (folic acid) and B3 vitamin (niatsin).
It is impossible to accept at the same time several vitamin complexes or the medicines containing vitamins in the structure. Different medicines can contain identical ingredients, as will cause glut, and further — and organism poisoning with tocopherol.
Following these simple rules, you keep the health. Vitamins are very useful and necessary for a human body, the main thing is to accept them intelligently and not to forget that in a drop medicine, and in a spoon — poison. Kind to you health!