Oral calcium supplements
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Calcium is one of the important minerals essential for the human body. Apart from building and maintaining bone and teeth, calcium regulates some of the body processes including stabilizing blood pressure and ensuring normal brain function. Both low and high level of calcium concentration in blood is harmful. So it is essential to keep a balanced level of calcium. An adult needs to take 1000-1500 mg of calcium per day.
Well, many people particularly women (who needs more daily calcium intake) can not take oral calcium supplements because of stomach pain, nausea etc. So, pharmaceutical companies all over the world are making various calcium supplements. The Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Dhaka has however marketed a more tolerable calcium product with brand name “Cavic-C Plus”. But may senior physicians including orthopaedics and neurological specialists do not suggest taking of Caciv-C Plus” saying that it does nothing in supplementing the calcium deficiency, some opined that the product has harmful effects. Good, but if the product is of no use then why the company is marketing this. As far as my knowledge goes Cavic-C Plus is a popular calcium supplement because of its comfortable nature.
Perhaps our pharmaceutical companies should transfer some preparations of calcium medication to Bangladesh from advanced countries for proper test so that people here can take calcium comfortably.
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