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Foliber user manual

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This drug is not used to treat men, although they can drink it together with other vitamin complexes containing selenium, ascorbic acid, etc., if the body has a lack of folic acid, which can affect sperm productivity.

Appearance, form, composition of Foliber

Pharmaceutical companies produce Foliber in tablet form. They are flat, have a round shape, painted in yellow. The pill contains 0.4 mg of vitamin B9 (folic acid) and 2 μg of B12 (cyanocobalamin).
The composition of the tablet also includes some auxiliary compounds: citric acid, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, sodium carboxy starch type A, maltodextrin, lactose monohydrates.
The tablets are placed in a blister that contains 28 pills. It is packed in a cardboard box. In the pharmacy network, it can be freely purchased without a doctor’s prescription. It is recommended to store the medicine in a dry place where children cannot reach. Temperature condition - no more than 23 ° С.
The medicine remains valid for two years.

How does this medication work?

The use of the drug Foliber allows you to eliminate the blockade of metabolism, which is often formed in women suffering from various defects on the neural tube.
The specifics of this type of blockade: if a woman does not have enough folic acid and vitamin B12 in her body, then the homocysteine ​​does not convert to methionine, and this causes the absence of the necessary amino acid in the metabolism.
Therefore, during pregnancy, the fetus does not receive the necessary substances that are necessary for the proper formation and development of the neural tube.
    The Foliber tablet contains the minimum required daily dose of folic acid, which is recommended by most disease prevention centers. Studies have shown that even healthy women need these vitamins to prevent the development of various defects on the neural tube in the fetus.
Foliber is well and quickly absorbed into the jejunum. The maximum concentration of the drug in the blood plasma is observed after half an hour - an hour after taking the pill. Then vitamins bind to proteins, and their excess gradually accumulates in the liver cells. B12 and folate can pass through the placenta.

When is this drug prescribed?

Doctors recommend using this medication long before pregnancy planning in order to stabilize all the processes in the body of the expectant mother.
Therefore, this drug should be taken in such cases:
    If a woman of childbearing age is diagnosed with folic acid deficiency and B12 deficiency at an early stage of pregnancy planning, then doctors recommend starting taking Foliber about 30 days before conception.
    Pregnant women should take this medication as a preventive measure to prevent the appearance and development of various defects in the neural tube in the fetus. Doctors recommend taking Foliber during the first trimester of pregnancy.
In order to find out whether this drug is needed or not for this or that woman, it is necessary to take tests when planning pregnancy. She should also bring her spouse to this procedure, since the male body also needs folic acid, although not in the same volume as the female one. If a deficiency of vitamin B9 is detected, then the medicine can be prescribed for both spouses, but in different doses.
Foliber does not affect a person's ability to drive a vehicle or complex moving machinery. This drug does not cause dispersion of attention during work, which requires concentration and speed of reaction.

Dosage and administration, overdose, side effects and contraindications

Since the medication is available in the form of tablets, they are taken orally in the volume in which the doctor indicates. This is usually done before meals.
Do not engage in self-medication, since each person has an individual need for different vitamins, which can only be determined by the attending physician after receiving these analyzes. For pregnant women, Foliber is used only according to indications and under the supervision of a doctor.
    The manufacturers of this medication have no data on the use of this vitamin complex in increased doses and on possible consequences. When using this medication, such side effects may appear: redness of the skin, allergic rash, itching.
He will adjust the dose and the problems will disappear. Although Foliber is a complex of vitamins, it, like any medication, has contraindications: you should not give this medicine to a woman who has an increased sensitivity to the substances that make up the tablets.
Doctors should also check the possibility of malabsorption of galactose and glucose in the patient due to the presence of galactosemia or lack of lactase in his body. For such people, Foliber should be prescribed with great care.
It is necessary to take into account the fact that the use of this vitamin complex with methotrexate is prohibited, since this medication belongs to folic acid antagonists and dramatically slows down the reaction with the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase.
If the patient takes drugs based on hydantoin compounds to combat epilepsy, it is not recommended to prescribe Foliber, since this drug sharply reduces the healing properties of antiepileptic drugs.

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You don't need a prescription to buy Foliber.