Vitamin D Quiz
What Vitamin D Level is Natural?
In nature - almost like in the Stone Age - you can find vitamin D levels of 80/90/ 100ng /ml
in children in developing countries walking around in the tropical sun without any clothes to speak of.
If you then give them a shirt, trousers and a school building, the vitamin D level will drop 30/ 40ng /ml
and the more than a thousand known vitamin D deficiency diseases set in.
How do I recognize vitamin D deficiency?
At night: feeling cold, leg pains, restless sleep with sudden awakening.
During the day: limp, tired, powerless, lacking momentum
Midday and on exertion: dizziness and/or headache when standing up
Prolonged standing causes pain in: neck, lower back, groin, feet
Midday sun causes: circulatory problems, headaches, itchy skin, red spots
Cramps and/or twitches in: leg, arm, hand, eyelid
Often: cold hands, feet, legs and white fingertips
Fingernails have white spots
Vitamin D immediate therapy
A one-off dose of 5 mg vitamin D ensures a rapid increase in the vitamin D level within a few days.
This therapy is available for children as rickets prophylaxis with 5 mg Vigantol ®
For adults there is DEKRISTOL 20,000 ® with the content: 10 capsules, each x 20,000 IU = 200,000 IU = 5 mg vitamin D.
In France, drinking ampoules with 200,000 IU (= 5 mg) of vitamin D have been available in every pharmacy for a long time.
With this one-time dosage, the vitamin D level increases by 20 - 30 ng/ml in medium-weight individuals.
Daily or weekly intake at a lower dose is ideal for maintaining vitamin D levels. As a second- best alternative , adults may repeat this vitamin D regimen of 200,000 IU once a month.
Accidental double ingestion is not toxic. Without additional vitamin D intake, the vitamin D level drops again within 4-6 weeks to such an extent that a new deficiency occurs.
Convert your vitamin D laboratory results
Convert " nmol / l " to " mg / ml " directly here
Some medical laboratories use the term "nmol / l" when specifying the vitamin D blood level.
Most recommendation tables for the target vitamin D blood level, however, use the term "mg / ml".
Below you can type in your "nmol / l" laboratory value and with the "convert" button you can immediately see your result in "mg / ml".
Vitamin D News
News from worldwide research on vitamin D
Why are so many people getting the coronavirus in India?
In India, people protect themselves from the sun because fair skin is considered a sign of higher caste.
Many people live in cities where the smog filters out the sun's rays.
Vitamin D deficiency affects large parts of the population: 50 - 93% of people have a vitamin D level below 30 ng/ml!
A vitamin D level of at least 20 ng/ml is absolutely necessary
to reduce the risk of death,
because a vitamin D level below 20 ng/ml carries an extreme risk of dying from Covid-19.
A vitamin D level of at least 30 ng/ml is absolutely necessary
as a precaution,
because a vitamin D level below 27 ng/ml is a dangerous risk during the pandemic.
Known since 2017
Respiratory infections can be prevented by taking vitamin D.
Vitamin D-3 reduced the risk of acute respiratory infection in all participants .
These results support the introduction of public health measures such as food fortification to improve vitamin D status , especially in settings where severe vitamin D deficiency is common.
Known since 2006
Vitamin D reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections.
Ultraviolet radiation from either man-made sources or sunlight reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections, as does cod liver oil, which contains vitamin D.
We conclude that vitamin D, or a lack of it, may be Hope-Simpsons "seasonal incentive." - see next article about Hope-Simpson