The day: A man ends up in the hospital with a vitamin D overdose

The day
Man ends up in hospital with vitamin D overdose

What happens if you take vitamin D tablets three times a day for several weeks? You come to the hospital. A Briton who actually wanted to improve his health made this painful experience.

  • Among other things CNN reports that after seeing a nutritionist, the man was taking more than 20 supplements a day – including 375 times the recommended amount of vitamin D.
  • Within a month he was suffering from nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, leg cramps and ringing in his ears.
  • Two months later, he was admitted to the hospital with a vitamin D overdose, almost 13 kilograms lighter. Of the Report appeared in the medical journal “BMJ Case Reports”.

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