Vitamin D
How an increasingly popular supplement landed a man in the hospital | CNN
A private nutritionist told a British man to take large doses of vitamin D along with other supplements. It didn't go well.
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Daily oral dosing of vitamin D3 using 5000 TO 50,000 international units a day in long-term hospitalized patients: Insights from a seven year experience - PubMed
Vitamin D3 is a secosteroid hormone produced in the skin in amounts estimated up to 25,000...
Source: Student Doctor Network - July 12, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: lobelsteve Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
My Personal Prophylaxis for COVID-19, read the MATH+ protocols, excellent summation
Vitamin D3:
"Our pilot study demonstrated that administration of a high dose of Calcifediol or 25-hydroxyvitamin D, a main metabolite of vitamin D endocrine system, significantly reduced the need for ICU treatment of patients requiring hospitalization due to proven COVID-19. Calcifediol seems to be able to reduce severity of the disease, but larger trials with groups properly matched will be required to show a definitive answer."
2% of the patients taking high dose calcifediol were...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - January 1, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: MeaCulpa Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Measure serum Vitamin D3 serum levels now!
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Source: BMJ Comments - July 2, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Nursing home residents could reduce risk of COVID-19 by supplementing with vitamin D3
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Source: BMJ Comments - July 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Diagnoses not officially in DSM
I think we've all seen some variant of these, I'm curious to see other types of cases witnessed in your career!
The Borderline Hug
Diagnostically confusing. Patient is pan positive with symptoms of every disorder but does not cleanly meet any diagnosis. On medications with all receptors covered including: benzo, mood stabilizer, SSRI/SNRI, antipsychotic, antihistamine, and maybe some deplin and vitamin D3. Patient is surprisingly pleasant, not high maintenance, and otherwise clinically...
Diagnoses not officially in DSM (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 15, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: randomdoc1 Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: forums
