Sugar coated tablets - 10 mg

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin. Vitamin E is a term applied to a large number of natural or synthetic compounds. The most important substances are the tocopherols of which alpha tocopherols are the most active and widely distributed in nature; other naturally occurring tocopherols include beta, gamma, and delta tocopherols, but these are not used in therapeutics. The other group of compounds with vitamin E activity are the tocotrienols. Alpha tocopherols occur naturally in the d optical isomer form, which is more active than the synthetic racemic dl form.

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.

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