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Folic acid

Application instruction:

Pharmacological action

Release form

Indications to use

Contraindications

Route of administration and dosages

Side effects

Storage conditions

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Folic acid – the drug of group of vitamins B (B9) used for prevention of development of anemia at pregnancy and also in cases of defective food.

Pharmacological action

Water-soluble Таблетки Фолиевая кислота B9 vitamin (Folic acid) has hemopoietic effect.

Characteristic property of Folic acid – ability to recover immunity, to support cardiac performance and blood vessels. B9 vitamin in an organism is synthesized by intestinal microflora, and in medicine it is received in the synthetic way.

Folic acid according to the instruction provides process of formation of blood cells. Its shortage breaks a hemopoiesis, detaining transformation of unripe forms of erythrocytes in mature (megaloblastichesky forms in normoblastic).

According to the instruction Folic acid promotes process of formation of erythrocytes (erythrogenesis) at a lack of iron of an organism, and also takes part in synthesis of nucleic acids, amino acids, the purine and pirimidinovy bases.

Folic acid contains in such products and plants as bean, cabbage, salad, spinach, green onions, soy, beet, carrots, tomatoes, millet, yeast, coarse flour and products from it, buckwheat and oat grain, a liver, kidneys of animals, cheese, caviar, eggs, cottage cheese.

Form of production of Folic acid

Folic acid is produced in a dosage form of powder and tablets on 1 mg (on 25 and 50 pieces in packaging).

Also produce the drug Folic acid of 9 months containing 400 mkg of active component in one tablet. On 30, 60 and 90 pieces in packaging.

Analogs of Folic acid on the mechanism of action are tablets Askofol and Foliber, and also drugs of ascorbic acid.

Indications to use of Folic acid

According to the instruction Folic acid is appointed:

For prevention of development of defects of a neurotubule in a fruit in the first trimester of pregnancy;
At deficit of folic acid, including defective food, pregnancy;
At treatment tropical and not tropical to a spr (disturbance of absorption of the majority of nutrients in intestines);
In case of the megaloblastny anemia caused by deficit of folic acid;
At medicinal and radiation anemia and a leukopenia;
At intestines tuberculosis;
At a chronic gastroenteritis.

Use of Folic acid during pregnancy allows to get rid of many complications at the time of delivery and a post-patrimonial depression.

Contraindications

Folic acid is not appointed:

At hypersensitivity to drug components;
At malignant new growths;
In case of pernicious anemia (B12 vitamin absorption disturbance);
At deficit of cobalamine;
In case of hemochromatosis (iron exchange disturbance);
In case of a hemosiderosis;
At children's age.

Route of administration and dosages of Folic acid

At treatment apply Фолиевая кислота в блистерах the following dosages of Folic acid:

At its lack of an organism – on one tablet (400 mkg) a day;
At treatment of anemias – on 2-3 mg a day.

Usually apply Folic acid in dosages to prevention:

For prevention of development of defects of a neurotubule in a fruit in the first trimester of pregnancy – to two tablets (800 mkg) a day;
At prevention of anemias – 1 mg a day.

Folic acid is applied after or during food inside.

Duration of a course of treatment, as a rule, makes 60 days, duration of a maintenance therapy varies from 60 to 90 days.

Side effects

According to reviews Folic acid can cause:

Nausea, bitterness in a mouth, abdominal distention;
Allergic reactions in the form of an itch, skin rash, an erythema, a bronchospasm, a hyperthermia.

At overdose by Folic acid a B12 vitamin hypovitaminosis is according to reviews possible.