If not testing for deficiency, physicians must provide vitamin D to deficient populations - A task for public health?
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Source: BMJ Comments - July 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Do not routinely test for vitamin D
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Source: BMJ Comments - July 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
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
Intravenous Vitamin C in Adults with Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2200644
In direct opposition to Marik's position a few years ago. Interesting to see it actually increased mortality and persistent organ dysfunction. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 16, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: TheLoneWolf Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Re: Effect of active vitamin D treatment on development of type 2 diabetes: DPVD randomised controlled trial in Japanese population
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Source: BMJ Comments - June 10, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Vitamin D-ance plague continues
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Source: BMJ Comments - June 6, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
How to address anti-vax families requesting certain medications?
I am sure that everyone here has encountered similar situations. Patient doesn't get vaxxed. Patient ends up intubated in ICU or on HFNC/bipap etc. Family is crazy and scrutinizing/criticizing medical management. I think its easy to explain why we aren't using Ivermectin.. you can just explain that the data isn't there and theres potential adverse effects and potential of doing harm. But I find it a struggle sometimes when families request IV vitamin C. I can explain that there is no data...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 27, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: BITB11 Tags: Critical Care Source Type: forums
Marik and Data Fraud
Evidence of Fabricated Data in a Vitamin C trial by Paul E Marik et al in CHEST
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Obviously Marik's metabolic cocktail study has been a huge outlier
A reasonable argument is being made that his data could be fraudulent and might explain why (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - March 27, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: BigRedBeta Tags: Critical Care Source Type: forums
WAMC/List
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Source: Student Doctor Network - February 26, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Vitamin Pirate Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
WAMC/List for 4.00/510
Hi everyone
Michigan resident, 4.0, 510 MCAT, ORM
Research: ~100 hrs so far in a wet lab that I got in August. The lab hasn’t been able to do things 100% because of university policy and COVID. I could potentially present a poster at the end of this semester or next semester but unsure.
Clinical volunteering: none.
Non-clinical volunteering: Currently volunteer at a center for autistic children and should accumulate around ~200 hours. Started in the winter of...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - February 26, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Vitamin Pirate Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Amen clinics
I had not heard of this till today, where a patient with worsening anxiety and her mother were convinced they needed holistic healing methods..They do things like IV vitamin replacement therapy and charge patients 4,000 for MRIs essentially...Ironically it was started by an actual psychiatrist (though a very controversial one to say the least) and now he has a chain of these.
I have not found an effective way to reason with people who are convinced these alternative therapies are the...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - January 27, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DrAmazingishere Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: forums
Pharmacist Diet Thread
Title says it all...just curious what others are doing...there's just so many factors to consider (personal health, climate/weather, costs, macronutrient/kcal goals, micronutrient goals, vitamin/mineral goals, food volume, variety in food groups consumed/balance, equipment, digestion, etc.)
Thinking of refining my diet with more emphasis on frugality and environment (plan on investing in an air fryer)...mostly frozen fruits and vegetables with fish (budget versions of oysters and salmon...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - July 20, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: RxPreceptor Tags: Pharmacy Source Type: forums
Vitamin D supplementation
Riddle me this:
If someone is osteopenic, we give Calcium/Vitamin D supplementation. The vitamin D in caltrate is 400 U of D3, BID, so that's 5600 U of D3 per week. (that D3 is a calcitriol analog, right? read to go).
If we later find out same patient is 25-hydroxy deficient (the typical lab we check), does it then make sense to add ergocalciferol (a D2 analog), 50KU/week, on top of the D3 we're giving? Put another way, if you're already giving a D3 analog, why would you give a D2...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - July 1, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DrMetal Tags: Internal Medicine and IM Subspecialties Source Type: forums
It is wrong and misleading to call vitamin D an orphan treatment. Better would be to call it a neglected prophylactic: UK chief medical officers appear to neglect the population ’s need for sufficient vitamin D, tolerating widespread deficiency
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Source: BMJ Comments - April 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: It is wrong and misleading to call vitamin D an orphan treatment. Better would be to call it a neglected prophylactic: UK chief medical officers appear to neglect the population ’s need for sufficient vitamin D, tolerating widespread deficiency
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Source: BMJ Comments - April 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
