Vitamin E is often called the elixir of youth, designate adults and children in many cases to prevent, and in the complex therapeutic measures. Patients question arises, should be taken before or after eating vitamin E to bring the maximum benefit?
The importance of vitamin E consumption
Tocopherol - is necessary for the body to a substance that is not produced by himself. His hit in the stomach happens to food while eating and medicine. As an antioxidant, vitamin E is essential for maintaining the health and well-being for children and adults.
Positive properties of vitamin E
Depending on how you take vitamin E, before meals or after, its effectiveness is shown.
Tocopherol has the following effects:
- It strengthens the body's resistance to adverse foreign influence;
- improves skin condition;
- It strengthens muscles;
- inhibits thrombus formation;
- stimulates good wound healing;
- strengthens capillaries;
- affects metabolic processes;
- a positive effect on reproductive function.
Vitamin E, arriving with food, almost destroyed by heat treatment. But it does not retain its positive characteristics when exposed to sunlight, and in contact with some other products in the ready meals, such as in salad.
Symptoms of vitamin E deficiency
Lack of vitamin E is much more common than its overabundance. When used only food rich in tocopherol, to achieve a surplus of almost impossible.
On lack of tocopherol may indicate these states:
- decreased libido;
- disturbances in the sexual sphere, and men and women;
- mucosal dryness;
- poor condition of the hair and skin;
- pregnancy;
- state of depression;
- recovery after illness;
- fatigue and so on.
Note! In addition to the symptoms of vitamin E deficiency may suggest laboratory tests.
Especially vitamin E relative digestibility of food consumption
Depending on the health problems, a doctor is chosen for each patient's own treatment regimen and dosing. Excess recommended doses may cause hypervitaminosis.
As used tocopherol is not absorbed completely. Absorption is only half the incoming amount. Food can improve the process of assimilation of the drug. To do this, vitamin E is necessary to drink right after a meal.
Note! Vitamin E can be administered even to children up to a year.
Features reception
Vitamin E - a fat-soluble substance. In order to assimilate it by the body more fully, it must be present in the gastrointestinal tract of fat. If before a meal to take vitamin E, the use of such therapy is not enough. The body simply can not absorb the drug. Concerning the best time to use tocopherol is considered the morning, after half an hour after eating.
Another feature of vitamin E therapy is a condition - to wash down the capsule with clean water, not drink. Fall under the prohibition of alcohol, coffee, tea, milk, etc. Also not desirable to combine the reception of tocopherol with other drugs. Simultaneous treatment may affect not only the quality of the assimilation of vitamin E, but also on the effectiveness of drugs drunk as towards its increase, and in the direction to decrease it.
Typically adult dosage for an adult is 100-400 mg per day. In capsule form, suitable for receiving, vitamin E is produced in different dosages. This allows to select the most suitable embodiment, a tocopherol content of 100-200 mg. For the child, appropriate forms of output in the form of drops and syrup. Them to drink and after a meal.
Taking any medicines should be carried out according to the rules specified in the official instructions to the drug and in accordance with the individual recommendations of the treating physician.
sources:
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