Alfacalcidol is indicated in:
- It is used to increase the amount of vitamin D in your body. This often increases calcium levels as well which can help in treatment of certain illnesses.
- In general this drug is used to treat diseases where the amount of calcium and phosphate (which is controlled by the level of vitamin D) in your body needs changing.
- Benefits of being on this drug can include control of the levels of calcium and phosphate in your body.
- Treat and prevent bone conditions that are caused by kidney failure (osteodystrophy)
- Treat illnesses and abnormalities affecting the parathyroid glands which make a substance called the parathyroid hormone.
- Correct low levels of calcium in the blood of newborn babies (hypocalcaemia)
- Treat the softening and deformity of the bones due to lack of calcium (rickets or osteomalacia)