ALFA D 0.5MG TABLETS

Generics

Alfacalcidol

Indication

It is used to treat diseases where the amount of calcium in your body needs changing. It is used to treat:

•Changes in bone caused by kidney failure (osteodystrophy).

•Changes to your parathyroid glands. These are small glands found in your neck. They make a substance called the parathyroid hormone. This changes the amount of calcium in your body. ° The glands may make the amount of calcium in your blood too high (hyperparathyroidism). ° The glands may make the amount of calcium in your blood too low (hypoparathyroidism).

•Low levels of calcium in the blood of newborn babies (hypocalcaemia). •Softening and deformity of the bones due to lack of calcium (rickets or osteomalacia).