A good half of the world's population at least once in a lifetime has broken something for themselves. Fracture is a difficult business, recovery is slow. In addition to all kinds of medications and procedures that are prescribed to the patient in this case, he can also take vitamins for a speedy recovery. What vitamins are needed for fractures?
Where to get vitamins
First of all, it is necessary to understand that vitamins are also present in food, and if you do not eat hamburgers, french fries and Coca-Cola, but full-fledged food - fish, vegetables, meat, fruits, then all the components necessary for health can be obtained in full. However, we will be honest and frank: a fairly small percentage of people lead a really healthy lifestyle, eating the right food and refraining from what is so tasty, but so bad. That is why there are various special vitamin formulations designed to help those in need. There are many of them, and before disassembling any specific ones, it would be nice to understand what vitamins are needed for a bone fracture in the body and what, in fact, is generally useful for them.
Why drink vitamins?
To answer the question, why are vitamins for the body, you must first remind yourself what it is - a vitamin? This word has two meanings, but one thing is important: it is a substance of organic origin, which is necessary for normal human life. The second value is associated with the first - this is a drug (but not a drug!), Which contains these very substances. So, vitamins are necessary for a person to have a normal life. Accordingly, with a fracture of any kind, the victim needs them even more - like air! Why?
At least, because with the help of various useful microelements our bones become not so fragile, they get stronger, harden. Vitamins regulate how bones grow after an injury, form collagen in them (a special protein that is the basis of connective tissues and is responsible for their strength and elasticity). In general, without vitamins, our skeleton would have crumbled to dust.
Vitamins for bone fractures: what are needed
There are a lot of vitamins required by the body to recover from a fracture (now we are talking about vitamins in their main meaning). This is the main building block of calcium, and vitamin K2, without which calcium is simply washed out of the body, as well as phosphorus, zinc, magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin D and B vitamins. Each of them has its own role, and without any of human skeletal system will be fragile and inferior. What drugs containing these substances can be drunk for recovery?
Vitamin Complexes
Complexes of vitamins and minerals can have in their composition as any one component, or several. Each case is individual, and only a doctor can correctly determine which vitamins for fractures to take for a particular patient. Therefore, it is better not to self-medicate, despite the fact that, once again, vitamins are not a medicine.
As an example of a one-component complex, one can name Calcimin - as you might guess from the name, it contains only calcium. An example of a multicomponent preparation is Vitrum Osteomag.
Vitrum Osteomag
One of the vitamin complexes that are allowed for use in fractures is Vitrum Osteomag. In addition to calcium, it contains zinc, magnesium, manganese, boron, copper, vitamin D3 and various auxiliary substances and elements. The drug is available in tablet form, intended for the treatment of osteoporosis (a disease of the skeletal system, when the bones become thinner due to metabolic disorders and there is a high risk of fractures) and is aimed at regulating calcium-phosphorus metabolism.
In addition to the treatment of osteoporosis, it is also used to prevent it, as well as to replenish the body's calcium and / or vitamin D3 deficiency. The drug is popular, as it can be used by pregnant women and nursing mothers. But people suffering from kidney problems and / or urolithiasis, who have high levels of calcium in the blood, as well as children under the age of twelve, should not be used.
You need to take Vitrum Osteomag once or twice a day, and you should be aware of possible side effects - constipation, diarrhea, nausea. The cost of the drug is from three hundred rubles and above (depending on the number of tablets in the package).
"Vitrum Calcium with Vitamin D3"
Another answer to the question of which vitamins to drink during fractures is Vitrum Calcium with Vitamin D3. It is also available in tablets, has the same effect on the body as the above drug, but in its composition, unlike Osteomag, it has exclusively calcium and colecalciferol (in other words, vitamin D3). Indications for use of this complex include replenishment of calcium and / or vitamin D3 deficiency in adolescents, pregnant and lactating women, the elderly, as well as treatment and prevention of osteoporosis.
Side effects and contraindications for this drug are the same as for the previous one, with one small exception: Vitrum Calcium with Vitamin D3 should also not be drunk for people suffering from tuberculosis. The mode of use is one or two pieces per day, the cost is in the region of three hundred and a few rubles.
OsteoSanum
In addition to calcium, the OsteoSanum vitamin complex also contains B vitamins, K2, D3 vitamins, folic acid, and even mummy extract. In addition to everything that was stated regarding the two previous complexes and which can also be successfully attributed to the “OsteoSanum”. It is especially recommended for women in the postmenopausal period, as well as for everyone who wants to strengthen their nails, hair and teeth. Compared with the previous vitamin complexes for fractures, OsteoSanum is their expensive counterpart, its cost is more than two thousand rubles.
Collagen Ultra
Unlike all of the above complexes, Collagen Ultra is available in bags with a powder of various tastes (orange, lemon and so on). A gel and cream of the same name are also produced. The basis of the drug, as you might guess, is calcium and collagen, as well as vitamin C. Collagen Ultra is indicated for improving the functioning of the musculoskeletal system, as well as for preventing the development of arthritis and similar unpleasant diseases.
However, it is forbidden to use the drug during pregnancy and lactation, as well as those people who have personal intolerance to the components. The method of receiving the powder is in solution, once a day for three months. The cost of the complex - in the region of three hundred rubles - judging by the reviews, is available to many.
Calcimin
This drug is monocomponent, it contains only calcium and is prescribed when it is necessary to increase the level of this substance in the body. You can not use "Calcimin" to people with individual intolerance to components, kidney disease, hypercalcemia, as well as a tendency to thrombosis. It is also prohibited for children under the age of fourteen.
The way to use this vitamin for a fracture is one thing twice a day with meals for a month. According to the host, the scheme is simple and convenient. The cost of the complex is from three hundred to eight hundred rubles.
But what about the children?
All of the above drugs can not be taken by babies. But what vitamins can be used for fractures in children?
There are special children's complex preparations. For example, mothers respond well to the preparations "Calcium D3 Nycomed" or "VitaMishki Calcium +" - chewable pastilles that can be used by babies from the age of three.
Vitamins in Food
All of the above vitamins, minerals and other useful micro- and macrocells are also, as already mentioned, in food. Where exactly can one or another vitamin be found?
For example, calcium - and this is probably no secret to anyone - is found in fish, as well as sesame and cottage cheese. Any of the vitamins of group B can be obtained from buckwheat porridge, bananas, legumes (peas, beans and so on), wholemeal bread and, of course, meat. Vitamin C is citrus, but not only. It is also found in rosehips, sea buckthorn, peppers, black currants, Brussels sprouts, parsley.
Finding phosphorus without problems is possible in home-made cottage cheese, peas, beans, nuts - walnuts or hazelnuts. The same nuts, as well as others, as well as honey, figs, apples and green tea contain the right amount of zinc.
As for vitamin D, which is useful in fractures, it is problematic to get it from food, but it is easy to absorb with sunlight. So you need to be more in the sun, in the fresh air (if the nature of the fracture allows you to move at least around the perimeter of the balcony).
It is important that all vitamins in bone fractures enter the body in equal proportions. An excess of one thing and a lack of another will not help the body, on the contrary, it will only lead to the fact that these vitamins cease to be absorbed.
Useful Tips
For those who have just had a fracture, there are some recommendations for a faster recovery. They relate to building the right lifestyle. Firstly, everyone, without exception, is “broken,” regardless of what was damaged and what vitamins the body lacks, it is strictly forbidden to drink coffee and drink alcohol during the recovery period. The thing is that both coffee and alcohol remove calcium from the body, and without it, as mentioned above, you cannot form a normal bone system. For the same reason, you can not eat anything that can reduce the amount of calcium in the body. Every morning it is recommended to drink freshly squeezed juice (this is not forbidden throughout the day), but it is best to refuse soda water.
What about smoking? Alas, heavy smokers with fractures will also have to tight - after all, they will have to refrain from nicotine. During smoking, a substance such as cortisone is released in large quantities, an excess of which in the body helps to reduce bone strength. Nicotine also destroys osteoblasts (cells that form bones) and upsets the balance of estrogen, which is responsible for strengthening bones.
In addition to vitamins for fractures in formulations or in an edible form, it is also permissible to use alternative methods of recovery. Very popular among them is the mummy, which is recommended to be mixed with rose oil and consumed twice a day for twenty-five days. In addition, traditional healers advise drinking a decoction from such an interesting remedy as comfrey, or rather, from its roots. Of these, by the way, ointment is also produced, which is permissible to be applied to the damaged area.
And for the most lazy and afflicted, there is also such a way: to grate any copper product, mix shavings with bread crumb and eat until you get better. The following advice is similar: a grated silver product is mixed with an egg shell and taken orally half an hour before a meal.
It is impossible to say which vitamins are best for fractures and which are not. To each his own, as they say. However, the pharmaceutical market today provides a large selection of products, which means you can find anything for anyone that will satisfy him.