Description medications: Ascorbic acid (Acidum ascorbinicum)

Ascorbic acid (Acidum ascorbinicum).

Vitamin C (Vitaminum C). g lactone 2, 3-dehydro-L-gulonic acid.

Synonyms: Acidum ascorbicum, Ascorbin, Ascorbit, Ascorvit, Cantan, Cantaxin, Cebione, Cecon, Celin, Ceneton, Cevalin, Cevex, Laroscorbine, Redoxon, Scorbumine, Vicin, Vitascorbol and others.

White crystalline powder sourness. Easily soluble in water (1: 3, 5), is soluble in alcohol. Injection solutions are prepared with the addition of sodium hydrogencarbonate, and stabilizers; + sterilized at 100 "C for 15 min, the solutions pH 6 0 - 7 0.

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is present in significant quantities in foods of plant origin (rose hips, cabbage, lemons, oranges, horseradish, fruit, berries, pine needles, etc.). Small amounts of vitamin C are animal products (liver, brain, muscle). For medical purposes, ascorbic acid is produced synthetically.

Ascorbic acid plays an important role in the organism. Due to the presence in the molecule dienolnoy group (- SON SON = -), it has strongly pronounced reducing properties. Participates in the regulation of redox processes, carbohydrate metabolism, blood coagulation, tissue regeneration, the formation of steroid hormones. One of the important physiological functions of ascorbic acid is its involvement in the synthesis of collagen and procollagen and normalization of capillaries permeability.

The human body is not able to synthesize vitamin C; It satisfied the need for vitamin administered with food. The lack or absence of his lead to the development of hypo- or vitamin deficiency (scurvy).

The daily requirement of ascorbic acid for an adult human of about 70 - 100 mg; for children aged from 6 months to 1 year - 20 mg; from 1 to 1 year, 5 years - 35 mg; 1, 5 and 40 mg 2 years; 3 to 4 years - 45 mg; from 5 to 10 years - 50 mg; from 11 to 13 years - 60 mg; for young men 14 - 17 years old - 80 mg; girls 14 - 17 years old - 70 mg.

The crystalline ascorbic acid and containing its products are used in preventive and curative purposes in all cases, when the body needs extra introduction of this vitamin: for the prevention and treatment of scurvy, with hemorrhagic diathesis, nasal, pulmonary, liver, uterine, and other bleeding; including those caused by radiation sickness, and an overdose of anticoagulants in infectious diseases and intoxications, liver disease, nephropathy pregnant, Addison's disease, sluggish healing wounds and fractures, dystrophy and other pathological processes. The drug is prescribed as at the strengthened physical work, mental stress, during pregnancy and lactation.

There is a positive effect of ascorbic acid on lipid metabolism in atherosclerosis.

Assign ascorbic acid inside (after eating), intramuscularly or intravenously.