Sugar coated tablets - 10 mg

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin.

Vitamin E prevents the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids. It reacts with free radicals, which are the cause of oxidative damage to cell membranes.

Vitamin E deficiency is rare but develops when the dietary intake is inadequate. In children with congenital disorders such as cystic fibrosis or biliary atresia, malabsorption of fat may lead to vitamin E deficiency; deficiency may also occur in children with abnormalities of lipid transport, as in abetalipoproteinemia. Low vitamin E concentrations are also found in premature or very low birth-weight infants. The major signs of vitamin E deficiency are myopathic and neurological disorders.

Vitamin E is indicated in:

• prevention and treatment of vitamin E deficiency developing as a result of malabsorption caused by cystic fibrosis, chronic cholestasis and abetalipoproteinemia.

Other indications include risk of abortion or risk of premature birth, several menstrual cycle disorders, oligospermia, asthenospermia, male sterility, myopathy, nocturnal enuresis, neurotonic asthenic syndrome, primary muscular dystrophy; also it is used as adjuvant treatment in several endocrine disorders such as hypogonadism, thyrotoxicosis.