Calcium Ambee 500 mg/5 ml Injection

    Calcium Ambee 500 mg/5 ml

    Generic: Calcium gluconate

    Category: Injection

    Manufacturer: Ambee Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

    Price: 6.22

    1 x 1 Ampoule

    Indications

    Uses of Calcium Ambee: - Nutritional deficiencies

    Therapeutic Class

    Minerals in bone formation, Specific mineral preparations

    Pharmacology

    Calcium gluconate is used to prevent or treat negative calcium balance. It also helps facilitate nerve and muscle performance as well as normal cardiac function.

    Dosage and Administration

    How to use Calcium gluconate: Your doctor or nurse will give you this medicine. Kindly do not self administer.

    Interaction

    Co-administration of high calcium doses with thiazide diuretics may result in milk-alkali syndrome and hypercalcaemia. May potentiate digoxin toxicity. Decreases effects of calcium-channel blockers. Enhanced absorption with calcitriol (a vitamin D metabolite).

    Contraindications

    Patients with calcium renal calculi or history of renal calculi. Conditions associated with hypercalcaemia and hypercalciuria.

    Side Effects

    Common - Injection site inflammation

    Pregnancy And Lactation

    Pregnancy Category C. Either studies in animals have revealed adverse effects on the fetus (teratogenic or embryocidal or other) and there are no controlled studies in women or studies in women and animals are not available. Drugs should be given only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.

    Precautions And Warnings

    Impaired renal function; cardiac disease; hypercalcaemia-associated diseases, e.g. sarcoidosis; other malignancies. Pregnancy.

    Drug Classes

    Minerals in bone formation, Specific mineral preparations

    Mode of Action

    Calcium gluconate is used to prevent or treat negative calcium balance. It also helps facilitate nerve and muscle performance as well as normal cardiac function.

    Pregnancy Category

    Pregnancy Category C. Either studies in animals have revealed adverse effects on the fetus (teratogenic or embryocidal or other) and there are no controlled studies in women or studies in women and animals are not available. Drugs should be given only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
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