Why do I get diarrhea after taking calcium tablets?

Everyone in the world has a different physique, so everyone's absorption and effect on drugs are different. Calcium tablets are a calcium supplement made by extracting nutrients from milk using biochemical technology. This makes calcium more easily absorbed by the human body, increases bone density, and promotes bone development. But some people may experience diarrhea after taking calcium tablets. What's going on?

The role and efficacy of calcium tablets

1. Promote bone growth and development in adolescents.

2. Prevent and treat osteoporosis, fractures, back pain, cramps, hunchback, hypertension, dental caries, insomnia, dysmenorrhea, palpitations, emotional instability and other symptoms. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and women before and after menopause.

3. Regulate heart rhythm, help maintain normal blood coagulation, assist in regulating the flow of nutrients, and help maintain normal muscle and nerve function.

4. Prevent rickets in children, chondrodystrophy and osteoporosis in adults, especially for leg cramps, back pain and other symptoms caused by bone loss in middle-aged and elderly people.

5. Prevent various diseases caused by calcium deficiency, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, tumors, etc.

Medicines are poisonous to some extent. Even if you take too much calcium tablets, there will be side effects. The side effects of calcium tablets are as follows:

1. Calcium supplementation must be scientific, because excessive calcium supplementation will cause anorexia, nausea, constipation, and indigestion, thereby affecting the intestinal absorption of nutrients.

2. Excessive intake of calcium tablets may cause hypercalcemia: milk-alkali syndrome, which is manifested as hypercalcemia, alkali poisoning and renal insufficiency.

3. General calcium tablets contain vitamin D, and long-term excessive intake of vitamin D will cause hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria, leading to kidney stones.

4. Patients with stone disease, especially those with kidney stones, should not take calcium tablets in large quantities for a long time.

Diarrhea after taking calcium tablets may be caused by inability to absorb the calcium or allergy.

In your case, you should avoid taking this calcium tablet again. Alternatively, you can switch to other medications to supplement calcium.

We can also supplement the calcium needed by our body through food, which can have the effect of calcium supplementation without any side effects that harm the body.

Foods rich in calcium can be divided into the following categories:

1. Milk: Each bag of milk contains about 200mg of calcium. The recommended milk intake is 300ml/d, which can intake 200-300mg of calcium. In addition, milk contains amino acids and lactose to help calcium absorption; 2. Beans: Such as soybeans, black beans, green beans, and pinto beans, which can be used to make mixed bean rice, which is delicious and can also supplement calcium; 3. Nuts: 100g of hazelnuts contains about 800mg of calcium. The recommended intake of hazelnuts is 25g/d, which intakes about 200mg of calcium; 4. Calcium-rich foods such as sesame paste and dried shrimps: The total intake needs to be limited. This type of food contains too much cholesterol, salt, and fat, and should not be consumed too much. Therefore, dried shrimps can be used instead of salt and sesame paste as cold dishes.