An 89-year-old retired businessman died from an “overdose” of Vitamin D supplements that did not warn about the risks of excessive intake.
David Mitchener from Oxted, Surrey, reportedly had fatally high levels of Vitamin D when he was brought to the East Surrey Hospital last year in May and was suffering from hypercalcaemia – a build-up of calcium in the body associated with taking too much vitamin D.
He died ten days later.
For anyone else wondering how much vitamin D David had:
380 ng/mL is about 38,000 IU of vitamin D, but since that was the maximum measurable level, the actual level was probably higher
20-50 ng/mL is good, 150 ng/mL or higher is considered vitamin D intoxication
Jesus fucking Christ. I take 5000iu daily for thyroid-related stuff and that’s considered a high dose. How much was he fucking taking?
I recall the Mayo report on vitamin d supplement indicated just a bit of the calcium thing starting to be noticeable after 6 months of 60,000 IU. the stuff just really doesn’t want to build up in most folks I guess
Thee hundred eighty nanograms per milliliter. Not great; not terrible.
3.8? They gave us the number they had…
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