high levels of calcium in your blood.Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Your dose needs may be different during pregnancy or while you are nursing.Calcium gluconate pregnancy and breastfeeding warnings (more detail)How should I use calcium gluconate?Use...
Uses What is Calcium Gluconate used for? It is used to treat: hypocalcemic tetany hypocalcemia associated withhypoparathyroidism hypocalcemia due to pregnancy or rapid growth Calcium gluconate is sometimes used as an adjuvant in the treatment of: ...
Uses & Effectiveness Effective for Indigestion (dyspepsia). Taking calcium carbonate by mouth as an antacid is effective for treating indigestion. High levels of potassium in the blood (hyperkalemia). Giving calcium gluconate by IV can reverse heart problems caused by high potassium levels. IV ...
Calcium Gluconate is a substance that, when administered intravenously, can counteract the cardiac effects of excessive potassium levels in the body. AI generated definition based on:Encyclopedia of Toxicology (Second Edition),2005 Also in subject areas: ...
Uses for Calcium Gluconate Calcium gluconate is used to treat conditions arising from calcium deficiencies such as hypocalcemic tetany, hypocalcemia related to hypoparathyrodism and hypocalcemia due to rapid growth or pregnancy. It is also used in the treatment of black widow spider bites to relieve...
For clinical emergencies (seizures, tetany), 10% calcium gluconate is infused, preferably in a large vein or central venous catheter, to provide an elemental Ca2+ dosage of 2 to 4 mg/kg body weight in newborns and 2 to 3 mg/kg body weight in children, given over 5 to 10 minutes ...
Uses Effective for... Indigestion. Taking calcium carbonate by mouth as an antacid is effective for treating indigestion. High levels of potassium in the blood (hyperkalemia). Giving calcium gluconate intravenously (by IV) can reverse heart problems caused byhyperkalemia, a condition in which there...
Uses Salts of calcium are used as a source of calcium: • to treathypocalcaemia(for example calcium gluconate); • to treathyperphosphatemia(for examplecalcium acetate, calcium carbonate); • to treathyperkalemia(calcium polystyrene sulfonate; see monograph on Polystyrene sulfonates); ...
intravenous (IV) calcium to preventlaryngeal stridorand convulsions. One ampule of 10%calcium gluconate(90 mg elemental calcium per 10 mL) should be given in 100-mL saline over 15 minutes, followed by an infusion of calcium (5 ampules of calcium gluconate in 500 mL of saline) at 50 mL/...
the calcium diets stay in the stomach for only two hours, and consumes the gastric acid to reduce. As a result, most calcium is passed out of the body, and the effective absorption is therefore low. Additionally, the gluconate is bad for the diabetics, and the lactate will cause the musc...