Calcium Supplements
#246423 - 02/15/06 04:27 AM
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HL33
Reged: 06/12/05
Posts: 97
Loc: Essex, UK
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Can anyone tell me why indigestion tablets containing calcium causes "D" but calcium supplements do not? I want to buy some C supps but not sure what to look for
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Indigestion tablets that contain calcium (like Tums) are ANTACIDS, which are also LAXATIVES. It's not the calcium in them that causes D - it's the fact that, as antacids, they have a laxative property.
Conversely, calcium, the mineral by itself (or, as it should always be taken, with Vitamin D to help absorption), has a slightly constipating effect, which means that it can be helpful for D.
Hope that clears things up 
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#246462 - 02/15/06 07:55 AM
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Bevvy
Reged: 11/04/03
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Loc: Northwest Washington State
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Calcium supplements cause me EXTREME cramps and ultimate "D". I've been taking 1,200mg. of Calcium + D religiously every single day for over 28 years, and suddenly my body can't tolerate it any more. I had to cut way back on my dosage; now I'm barely able to handle 600mg. a day.
Hope you fare better than I. BTW, you want Calcium Carbonate PLUS D. The purpose of the vitamin D is to aid in the body's absorption of the calcium.
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The one I have here is Holland & Barrett chewable calcium its 500mg of calcium carbonate per tablet but it does have quite a few other things in it like sucrose, dextrose, cotton seed oil etc
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Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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I am IBS D, and have tried taking calcium it works initially for the first week or so, then WHAM!!!! diarrohea hell...calcium seems to make my D worse if that is at all possible...sounds terrible, but calcium caused me to end up with no warning, of an impending BM, it is sooo sudden like a bucket of water ripping through my body, sort of like trying to stop a freight train with your little finger......so for obvious reasons I wont touch the stuff...I have tried to take calcium on three different occassions, just to make sure it was the calcium causing the "horrific" problems and nothing else..and every time I had the same results...so I would just say be very careful!!
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