Patient/caregiver was instructed upon therapeutic uses of calcitonin as follows:

Hypercalcemia

• Severe hypercalcemia, secondary to osteoporosis, can result in severe bone pain and weakness.
• Elevated serum calcium levels, due to any reason, can contribute to severe side-effects of lethargy, depression, renal stone formation, palpitations, and life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and so, must be treated in emergency.
• Calcitonin can be used in emergency treatment of hypercalcemia, to prevent the side-effects of severely elevated serum calcium.

Osteogenesis imperfecta

• This is a condition of defective bone formation, in children, resulting in poor bone density, mineralization and weakening of bones, thus contributing to fractures, even at the slightest injury.
• Administration of calcitonin in these children can help with increasing the deposition of calcium into the bone, thus contributing to improve bone density and mineralization, thereby, strengthening the bones and helping to prevent fractures.