Tablets - 200 mg
Nicotinamide and nicotinic acid (vitamin PP), are water-soluble vitamin B substances. They are converted in organism to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP). These two products are important coenzymes which are involved in the respiratory chain.
Nicotinic acid deficiency develops when the dietary intake is inadequate. Deficiency leads to the development of a syndrome known as pellagra, characterized by skin lesions, especially on areas exposed to sunlight, with hyperpigmentation and hyperkeratinisation. Other symptoms include diarrhoea, abdominal pain, glossitis, stomatitis, loss of appetite, headache, lethargy, and mental and neurological disturbances.
It is indicated in:
- cases of increased needs for nicotinamide, eg. during pregnancy and breastfeeding;
- debilitated persons and diabetic persons;
- a range of organic and functional diseases of the brain blood vessels (obliterating atherosclerosis, cerebral embolism, spastic migraine);
- organic peripheral vascular disease (Morbus Buerger);
- functional peripheral vascular disease as Raynaud’s disease, acrocyanosis;
- infectious diseases, metabolic disorders, allergies, anorexia, vomiting;
- ophthalmology; used in burns of conjunctiva and cornea from the heat of chemical substances, in diseases of fundus oculi and optic nerve due to vascular diseases;
- otorhinolaryngology; indicated in spastic damage of hearing and vestibular damage;
- stomatitis, glossitis, gingivitis, aphthae;
- dermatology; used in eczema, frostbite, toxic dermatitis, alopecia areata.
