Currently, pharmacies selling a wide variety of medical products are ready to offer customers modern multivitamin formulations from a number of manufacturers, known and not so well. And many consumers, on the recommendation of doctors, and without them, take vitamins for preventive purposes. However, a fairly large percentage of the population prefers drugs known since childhood. It is to these that the Undevit remedy belongs, the indications for the use of which are quite extensive.
Who is recommended?
Although in modern society there is an opinion that vitamins are not medicines, therefore you can take them when you want, this is completely wrong. Undevit, as well as any other multivitamin preparations, should be taken only if certain indications are available. This complex was designed specifically for middle-aged and older people. That is why its composition includes organic substances, the presence of which in the body improves and speeds up metabolic processes.
The composition of "Undevit" is well balanced, so doctors recommend taking the drug for any manifestations of hypovitaminosis. In addition, the drug will be very useful if a person needs to recover after the end of antibiotic treatment or surgery, trauma. Relief in exacerbation of chronic diseases is also included in the scope of the drug.
Who should be careful ...
“Vitamins can be drunk by everyone,” the consumer believes, acquiring a beautiful jar or box of his choice. And it turns out to be wrong. This applies to any vitamin preparations. The Undevit remedy is no exception. Reviews of doctors about the drug in this regard are quite unambiguous.
It consists of a lot of components, so people with individual intolerance to these components should be careful. Very carefully, doctors prescribe Undevit vitamins to patients with liver problems. Peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum is also a good reason to refuse to take the drug.
You can not take it to children under the age of 14 years and women planning a pregnancy or who are in her first trimester. The drug is prohibited for patients suffering from gallstone disease, chronic pancreatitis, nephritis (it does not matter, in acute or chronic form). Before taking Undevit, one should consult a doctor and people suffering from decompensation of cardiac activity.
In any case, before you start taking vitamins, you must at least get acquainted with the composition.
Component composition
The drug has been known since the second half of the last century. Its composition was developed by the Soviet professor V. Efremov for the prevention of premature aging of the body and for the normalization of metabolic processes. Undevit includes a whole list of vitamins and antioxidants.
No. p / p | Name of the component (vitamin) | Mass fraction (mg) | The main functions, the effect on the processes in the body |
1. | Retinol palmitate (A) | 1,817 | Helps normalize the condition of the mucous membranes, skin, eyes. |
2. | Riboflavin (B2) | 2.0 | Participates in the process of cellular respiration, visual perception. Promotes growth, reproductive function. Improves the condition of hair, nails, skin. |
3. | Tocopherol acetate (E) | 10.0 | It has a beneficial effect on the work of the gonads, on the state of the nervous and muscle tissues. Only with his participation is the decay of red blood cells possible. |
4. | Calcium Pantothenate (B5) | 2.0 | It takes part in the processes of acetylation and oxidation, in the renewal of skin layers. |
5. | Rutoside (P) | 10.0 | Antioxidant. It does not allow oxidation of ascorbic acid. |
6. | Cyanocobalamin (B12) | 0.002 | Involved in the work of the hematopoietic system. With his participation, myelin is synthesized (nerve fibers are composed of it). |
7. | Folic Acid (B9) | 0,07 | Participates in the formation of amino acids, nucleic acids, nucleotides, in the formation of red blood cells. |
8. | Nicotinamide (PP) | 20 | Provides stable operation of the epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract, skin, nervous system. |
9. | Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (B6) | 3.0 | Without it, protein metabolism is impossible. With his participation, the formation of neurotransmitters occurs, the lack of which can provoke depression. |
10. | Ascorbic acid (C) | 75.0 | With his participation, the maturation of red blood cells, the synthesis of hemoglobin. All redox reactions take place in his presence, cartilage tissue, bones, teeth are formed. |
eleven. | Thiamine hydrochloride (B1) | 2.0 | Enzyme. Needed during the carbohydrate metabolism process. Stabilizes the nervous system. |
And this is not all the components that make up the Undevit drug. The composition of vitamins is supplemented by auxiliary substances: white sugar, yellow wax, mineral oil and peppermint oil, wheat flour and starch syrup.
Basic rules of application
All drugs must be used according to certain rules. The Undevit remedy is no exception. Instructions for use (the composition was discussed above) recommends taking it after meals in one tablet, without chewing and without drinking water. If the drug was prescribed for preventive purposes, then one dragee per day is enough. If we are talking about the recovery period, it is permissible to take 2-3 pieces. The effect of the drug in this case will be more effective if not all dragees are taken at a time, but during the day, one at a time. The course is usually one month. After 2-3 months, it can be repeated.
If severe violations, hypovitaminosis are present, then adults are recommended to take 2 pieces 3 times a day. Elderly people are prescribed one tablet twice a day.
Negative consequences
If a person has an individual intolerance to any component of the vitamin complex, then, as a rule, this manifests itself in allergic reactions. The same effect can be in the case of prolonged use of the drug. If for some reason the permissible dose has been exceeded, disturbances in the functioning of the liver and in the digestion processes (abdominal pain, diarrhea) may occur.
The principle of the drug
The mechanism of influence is determined by the components that make up Undevita. Due to the large list of constituents, the drug regulates metabolism, normalizes tissue trophism, and participates in the formation of tissues and enzymes. Vitamins A, C and E provide a good antioxidant effect. The drug also supports homeostasis at the required level. Toning and adaptogenic effects, normalization of metabolic processes and the endocrine system - this is an incomplete list of the Undevita spheres of influence.
Existing analogues
Today in pharmacies you can find a lot of vitamin preparations with a wider composition and at a higher price. However, if you carefully approach the issue, you will notice that often the more highly advertised and expensive drugs differ from the good old “Undevit” with 1-2 components. And sometimes this may not be: the price is higher, but the composition is the same. Analogues that are quite close in composition are Vitalipid, VitrumBeauty and Aerovit, Retinol, Duovit, Aevit. An acceptable replacement for Undevita can be Decamevit, Ribovital, Gitagamp, and Doppelherz.
Opinion of buyers and specialists
Multivitamin preparations from different manufacturers are in high demand among the population. The Undevit remedy is no exception. Composition, reviews about it are widely discussed on the pages of newspapers, magazines, in social networks. A sufficiently large percentage of people taking it claims that the drug has the same beneficial effect on them as more expensive and modern complexes.
If you listen to experts, then the opinion of some may be somewhat different. Some say that the composition of Undevit is not balanced enough, that with a single dose, the components are poorly combined with each other, not fully absorbed.
According to others, synthetic vitamins (and Undevit refers to this particular group) cannot be useful to the body at all. This considerable part of doctors and scientists advise to give preference to natural products rich in one substance or another.
Still others convince everyone that modern technologies and high-tech equipment make it possible to develop and offer consumers new drugs that are more advanced and easily digestible.
So where is the truth?
And what should a simple person do in this situation? Buy newfangled drugs immediately from all diseases or take the Undevit remedy known since childhood? Reviews of doctors and their recommendations should be the main arguments in solving this issue. If the patient has a doctor whose opinion he fully trusts, and this specialist recommended taking Undevit vitamins, then so be it.