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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.
Calcium Gluconate is indicated for Antidote in severe hypermagnesaemia, Severe hyperkalaemia, Hypocalcaemic tetany, Severe acute hypocalcaemia, Hypocalcaemia and calcium deficiency states
Intravenous: Antidote in severe hypermagnesaemia, Severe hyperkalaemia:
Intravenous: Hypocalcaemic tetany, Severe acute hypocalcaemia:
Patients with calcium renal calculi or history of renal calculi. Conditions associated with hypercalcaemia and hypercalciuria.
GI irritation; soft-tissue calcification, skin sloughing or necrosis after IM/SC inj. Hypercalcaemia characterised by anorexia, nausea, vomiting, constipation, abdominal pain, muscle weakness, mental disturbances, polydipsia, polyuria, nephrocalcinosis, renal calculi; chalky taste, hot flushes and peripheral vasodilation.
Impaired renal function; cardiac disease; hypercalcaemia-associated diseases, e.g. sarcoidosis; other malignancies. Pregnancy.
Pregnancy & 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.