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submitted 8 months ago by Evilphd666@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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.

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[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For anyone else wondering how much vitamin D David had:

Ante-mortem test revealed Vitamin D levels at 380 (the maximum level recordable by the laboratory).

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ. I take 5000iu daily for thyroid-related stuff and that's considered a high dose. How much was he fucking taking?

[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago

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

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Thee hundred eighty nanograms per milliliter. Not great; not terrible.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

hitler-detector Levels so high other detection devices broke...

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

3.8? They gave us the number they had...

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