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Re:Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ by wang_li on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:08PM (#26705286)
Vitamin C is water soluble, excess is excreted in your urine. Vitamin D is fat soluble. If you take more than your body can use it builds up inside you. It can cause problems if too much accumulates.
Re:Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ by pbak on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:20PM (#26705384)
What kind of problems, in what kind of circumstances ?
Re:Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ by Jtsummers on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:23PM (#26705417)
Nausea, vomiting, weakness, frequent urination, kidney stones. It's really hard to get too much Vitamin D from food (doesn't have enough) and sun exposure (the body usually regulates itself well enough) so it's primarily supplements that cause Vitamin D toxicity unless you have other medical issues going on. It's definitely a supplement that's better taken under guidance of a physician who can order labs to monitor serum levels.

EDIT: It's worth noting that it takes a very high and frequent dose (60,000 IU daily, for instance, can cause it which is about 100x the recommended daily allowance of 600 IU).

Re:Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ by pbak on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:48PM (#26717790)
Thanks. Couple friends got diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency after going through Covid, both got 1-2k i.u, a day. But 60K? Good god. That really seems like overdoing it !!!
Re:Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ by Jtsummers on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:10PM (#26717992)
NP. Yeah, I was recently tested and found very deficient and even my doctor didn't prescribe anything close to that level. I'm at ~14k/day (50k twice a week) for 12 weeks. Talking with my colleagues, it seems most are on a prescribed Vitamin D supplement (or an encouraged supplement), but no one else was even close to my level. One has a 10,000 IU daily dose for 8 weeks, the rest have 1k-2k (like your friends) indefinite daily dose or just for the winter to carry them through.