Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19

Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by 0xebfc on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:47PM (#23024094)

Certain vitamins and minerals. Fat soluble vitamins can build up to the point of causing problems. Excess of iron and magnesium may have negative effect AFAIK.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by elric on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:29PM (#23024609)

For most people, excess magnesium levels would be pretty hard to reach. Unless you count loose stools as harmful, which some forms of magnesium supplements can cause.

Combining calcium and vitamin D can be seriously problematic. And high doses of calcium in general can make you more likely to end up with kidney stones -- those are not fun to pass!

Some supplements can even compete with each other for absorption (calcium & magnesium come to mind), so taking them together in a multivitamin is probably not the way to go.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by dontbenebby on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:08PM (#23024316)

But if I’m mindful of my iron intake etc. should have included that assumption

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by xlance on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:09PM (#23024327)

Vitamin D is fat soluble, but high doses needed for overdose.

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