Very often the people who are not recognizing drug treatment oppose use of synthetic vitamins. They consider that the best and only a reliable source of useful substances are products of animal or plant origin which the organism digests and synthesizes from them everything that it is necessary for it. Actually, at present ecology and quality of initial products few what dish healthy or not, will bring enough benefit and will fill the need for all substances necessary for an organism. So, we want that or not, it is just necessary to apply pharmaceutical vitamins B our time.
There is one vitamin to which even the surest opponents of pharmaceutical drugs which advantage is known to much got used since the early childhood, and harm raises questions. It is ascorbic acid with glucose, vitamin C or simply antiscorbutic vitamin, it can be found at the checkout in supermarkets or drugstores, it is useful candy and tasty medicine. Let's learn about it more — that happens if to eat too much antiscorbutic vitamin what it is done of and how many vitamin C is possible for adults and children.
Value of vitamin C
Ascorbic acid contains almost in all fabrics and bodies — everywhere it is necessary. It is more important to think up vitamin difficult, its shortage has awful consequences — for certain you heard stories about polar expeditions which appeared without fresh fruit and, as a result, without antiscorbutic vitamin. The answer to a question for what it is necessary, is simple — the deficiency of ascorbic acid is shown by diseases of skin and gums, difficult inflammations, bleeding mucous, bad mood, insomnia and bad immunity. So it is easy to notice deficiency of this substance though presently it meets seldom — fresh fruit and berries are widely available now, though not all on a pocket.
Important! Do not allow small children to dose intake of this substance independently. Vitamins are not candies, they demand parental control over the use.
Earlier hypovitaminosis With threatened with death and were not able to treat it because could not diagnose. Ascorbic acid participates in metabolism processes — restores and enriches enzymes, collects in a spleen and adrenal glands to be used if necessary, helps marrow to create erythrocytes and improves quality of blood. It stimulates proteinaceous synthesis, improving thereby elasticity and fortress of vessels and integuments.
Stress hormones, adrenaline and noradrenaline, are formed only with the participation of ascorbic acid. As they are responsible for abilities of an organism to adapt to uncomfortable conditions and to make fast decisions, this substance can be connected with protective reactions of a body. Besides, it strengthens the immune system — the organism becomes resistant to viral and bacterial infections, the probability of gene mutations whatever bad was the ecology decreases.
Unique anti-cancerogenic properties of antiscorbutic vitamin reduce the probability of developing of cancer tumors even at people with genetic predisposition therefore the advantage of this substance is indisputable, and harm can be done only the excess and frequent use. She is responsible for youth and beauty of an organism — connects free radicals, stops stratification of cholesteric plaques in vessels and becomes prevention of atherosclerosis.
Standard daily rate of ascorbic acid
Whatever useful this vitamin was, there is a dosage which should not be broken. Of course, now it is on sale in the form of the tablets flavored and with flavoring additives that makes it similar to candies, but you should not be deceived. Besides, it is not necessary to eat many candies too.
For children
Depending on that, this medicine is applied to prevention or to treatment, the dosage differs. To strengthen immunity in cold season, will enough give 30 mg a day to babies, 40 mg to one-year-old children and 45 mg to preschool children. To children up to thirteen years 55 mg of this substance a day are shown, to teenagers — 65-75 mg depending on weight. If antiscorbutic vitamin is used as treatment, the dosage increases. Kids up to three years need to give 70 mg, to children of school age — 150 mg and to teenagers — to 300 mg a day. There are maximum permissible standard daily rates after which there is an overdose. These are 400 mg for three-year-olds, 600 mg for children to thirteen and 800 mg for teenagers up to eighteen years.
It is necessary to accept ascorbic acid twice a day as one-time reception of the necessary amount of this medicine irritates a mucous membrane of a gullet.
Whether you know? Actually vitamin C and ascorbic acid are not the same. Acid — only a synthetic analog of vitamin which can be received only from fresh fruit and berries. However, it has properties just the same and makes impact on an organism similar, but be not deceived - it is two absolutely different substances.
For adults
With adults it is simpler — they this substance need more, and it is almost impossible to exceed the recommended dosage. Besides, if antiscorbutic vitamin is used in the preventive purposes, there will be enough 100-120 mg a day, this value needs to be divided into two and to accept in the morning and in the evening. Another matter treatment — here a dosage increases in three, and even five times. Depending on a condition of the patient, vitamin is accepted after a meal or five times a day on 100 mg for time. At regular overdose (these are more than 1000 mg a day), side effects are shown.
Release forms
There are several forms of application, some of which it is convenient to use for treatment, and others — for prevention. For example, tablets and a dragee can be taken and applied if necessary, and solutions are good for hypodermic introduction in the conditions of a hospital.
Tablets
The price does not cause quality — vitamin is vitamin, it is formed generally by availability of flavoring additive and design of packing. One tablet on 5 g contains 95% of the granulated ascorbic acid and 3% of sodium of an ascorbate. All the rest — excipients, such as sucrose, sweetener aspartame, fragrances, dyes and stabilizers. Such tablets for chewing are used. Have sourish taste, are painted poorly, usually divided in half by a fillet for convenience of dispensing.
Important! The overdose by this substance breaks the normal course of pregnancy and can become the abortion reason. It is better to include more citrus fruit and dark berries in a diet, than to fill the shortage of antiscorbutic vitamin with pharmaceutical medicines.
Dragee
Differs from tablets in a form — here it is oval or round. Sodium the ascorbate in structure is absent, but the acid in a dragee is 5% more. The list of additives includes starch syrup, yellow wax and mineral oil for creation of a smooth cover. The dragee is always orange, uniform color without impregnations. They are always done orange because because of edible wax the cover can be only orange.
Ampoules
Solution which in them contains, used for introduction of antiscorbutic vitamin to an organism of children of adults by means of the syringe. Ampoules contain one or two milliliters of solution, and are issued in cardboard boxes on ten pieces. Inside surely the instruction invests, but it is possible to use such solutions only according to doctor's instructions. Contents of ampoules are entered into veins or muscle tissue, at the same time introduction to a blood-groove works quicker, than in muscles — medicine is more effectively soaked up.
Solutions
Solution is likewise used for injections, concentration of active ingredient in it — 5 or 10%. It is used, when there is no an opportunity to enter medicine orally (if the person suffers from problems with a stomach or intestines and acid can work annoyingly on mucous). Solution always transparent, almost colourless or slightly dairy. This available medicine but to apply it, especially in the form of droppers, it is possible only under medical observation.
Whether you know? For the first time ascorbic acid was discovered in 1928 in America. The Hungarian chemist emigrant Albert Saint-Dyyordi made it. He managed to prove in four years of researches that the shortage of this substance in an organism has awful consequences. However, in 1937 the Nobel Prize for opening and a research of antiscorbutic vitamin was received at all not by him, and his colleagues — Walter Houors and Paul Karrer.
What will be if to eat a lot of ascorbic acid
Still before the person will reach a limit of a daily dose, will begin to feel sick him from amount of the eaten candies. Besides in large volumes they irritate mucous a mouth with the granulated structure therefore the fear that the child will eat too much antiscorbutic vitamins, often groundless — to it it simply will not be pleasant.
Overdose symptoms
If to eat a lot of ascorbic acid, there will be a feeling of constant dizziness and nausea, and what will be farther, will not be pleasant to anybody. There is heartburn because acid breaks rn balance of a digestive tract and irritates him. At considerable overdose the digestion violation begins, there are a severe diarrhea and vomiting. Insomnia, increased fatigue and lack of concentration signal about the lowered operability of nervous system. Allergic reactions — the last step of overdose as the organism begins to tear away excess substance.
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Possible consequences
The excess of vitamin C breaks normal processes in an organism. In risk group there are pregnant women — possibly influence on a fruit up to termination of pregnancy. At women with overdose failures in a cycle of periods, spasms in the lower part of a stomach are observed. As ascorbic acid is processed in kidneys and stored in adrenal glands, its surplus leads to formation of nephroliths and violation of work of a gall bladder.
Important! Vitamin C is not synthesized by a human body, but is responsible for the correct course of a set of functions. For this reason it is so important to monitor its constant receipt in an organism.
In reasonable quantities antiscorbutic vitamin helps to prevent emergence of malignant cages, but the surplus starts it active oxidizing processes which destroy uniform elements of blood. Such destruction concerns white blood cells, and after they are not restored any more.
First aid
Vitamin C belongs to water-soluble therefore to eliminate overdose symptoms, it is necessary to drink a lot of liquid — it will help kidneys to cope with large volumes of acid. If swallowed vitamin disposable and recently, frequent vomiting which needs to be caused violently will help. The got poisoned person needs to be given to drink warm, slightly salty water — to drink it especially in a disgusting way, and the organism itself begins to tear away unpleasant drink together with medicine. In case of overdose, adsorbents — white and activated carbon which needs to be measured, proceeding from body weight, or the medicine "Smekta" will help.
Antiscorbutic vitamin and children: precautionary measures
These tablets and dragee are similar to tasty candies. Bright candy wrappers only support children's desire to regale on sweet while in day it is possible to use no more than three tablets of ascorbic acid into how many them divide. Therefore it is better to store these useful tablets in places inaccessible and unknown to children.
It is also necessary to control strictly reception and it is obligatory to carry out explanatory work. Tell children that these tablets are not candies though they nice to the taste and that is them is possible only as medicine — a little and carefully. Before treating the child antiscorbutic vitamin, consult with the pediatrician or the therapist. He will tell you whether it is necessary to exceed a preventive dosage and what long has to be a course of treatment.
Pay attention that daily use of this vitamin affects results of blood tests. If the visit of policlinic is necessary to you, approximately in two days prior to it stop intake of vitamin, let he will be brought from a children's organism together with liquid in the natural way.
Whether you know? When James Cook organized the first expedition, besides habitual stocks of food like crackers, corned beef and oil, he included in a team diet sauerkraut — a valuable source of vitamin C. The Royal Court refused to finance dozens of kegs of sauerkraut, without understanding why to the small ship it is so much excess cargo. Then Cook resorted to cunning and included sauerkraut in category of drugs. The trick passed unnoticed. James had an opportunity to regularly feed the team with useful products and returned from swimming, without having lost from a scurvy of any sailor. In those days the scurvy mowed down seafarers with hundreds therefore Cook's expedition passed for extremely successful.
Vitamin C is irreplaceable. It is present at many bright and tasty fruit, it is received from berries and vegetables. Daily consumption of antiscorbutic vitamin strengthens immunity, improves working capacity and susceptibility to new knowledge that it is so important for children of school age. Ascorbic acid becomes prevention of infectious and cancer diseases, in moderate quantities it is simply pleasant to use it — a dragee and tablets are always good on taste. It is necessary to both adults, and children, especially during the winter and spring period when avitaminosis steps on heels and threatens to provoke a long SARS.
Surely remember a dosage, admissible for treatment and prevention, buy only quality pharmaceutical vitamins — then you and your family you will be healthy, and treatment of small colds will become fast and simple.