My mother has been on anti-osteoporosis treatment, taking calcium tablets and Alpha Osteocortisol, but since her stomach is not very good, taking Alpha Osteocortisol capsules directly will be a little bit of stomach pain. Recently, she always bites open the capsule and eats the inside of the medication cleanly, and leaves the outside of the brown hard shell of the capsule, so that the stomach will be more comfortable, so the effectiveness of the medication won’t be discounted, right? Can I just take calcium pills without Alpha Osteocortisol? When answering this question, there are two main aspects that need to be clarified, first, what is Alpha Osteocortisol? Do I have to take it? Second, can you not eat the capsule skin, only eat the medicine inside. 1, Alpha Osteocortisol is the active vitamin D, the same osteotriol is also active vitamin D, and Calcium D inside the D is also vitamin D. Vitamin D is a good companion for calcium supplementation to promote calcium absorption, but in the end, which vitamin D should be supplemented, need to be prescribed by the doctor according to the condition, it is not the scope of the science and technology. But in short, the elderly for calcium absorption is not good, calcium supplementation generally need to add partner. 2, can not eat the capsule skin, only eat the medicine inside? The answer is no. Because no matter what kind of vitamin D, are fat-soluble vitamins, need to enter the intestine to be absorbed, and the capsule can protect it is not in the stomach by the destruction of gastric acid, if you remove the capsule to eat only inside the drug, that after the decomposition of gastric acid, to reach the intestinal tract of the active ingredient will be greatly reduced, and affect the efficacy of the drug. What to do for this situation, you need to find a doctor again to review, according to the situation to switch to other types of vitamin D, and at the same time you need to check whether there is gastritis, gastric ulcer stomach disease.