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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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[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 63 points 8 months ago
[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago

jesus christ lol we really do have all possible emotes

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

I did not know what/who the emoji was, so I checked the tags and found out about chubbyemu, and started watching videos which is a problem, because I am a hypochondriac.

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

from video "A tankie watched ten hours of chubbyemu videos. This is what happened to their mental health.":

S. is a Hexbear user, ☝ presenting to the emergency room with a sharp pain in their soul

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago

hyper meaning in high quantities, calce meaning calcium and mia meaning in blood.

high quantities of calcium in blood

[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

I hate this guy for his dogshit and homophobic take on gay people donating blood

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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.

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago

"touch grass" i cant i overdose cri

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

Remember kids don't have too many vitamins.

CW: polar bear liver

Polar Bear - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

So why is polar bear liver so toxic?

For decades the finger has been pointed at vitamin A. A single polar bear liver (about 500 g) has an astonishing 9 million IU of vitamin A, and acute human toxicity occurs at about 300,000 IU!

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 50 points 8 months ago

symptoms include full-body skin loss

avgn-horror

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago

holy shit that actually sounds terrifying

[-] RION@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

note that's only a concern for fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K). the rest you just piss out

[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

At very high vitamin A levels, symptoms include full-body skin loss, hemorrhaging, coma, and death.

Full-body skin loss

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[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago

ahhhh the wonders of being able to expose my swarthy Brazilian ass to the sun daily

[-] IvanKaramazov@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Article leaves out a very important bit

Excess D wasn’t the only cause of death listed — the coroner also blamed congestive heart failure, chronic kidney failure, hypercalcemia, and Ischaemic Heart Disease — when blood no longer flows efficiently to the organ.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/man-dies-of-vitamin-d-toxicity-experts-warn-the-risk-of-overdose-is-real/ar-BB1jaWCw

Vit D toxicity can only occur with very high doses. Recommended daily intake is 600 IU. Taking upto 1-2k IU daily will never cause toxicity.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

Yeah normaly people can adsorb fairly high levels. The long term high D exasperated other issues and a contibuting factor. Not making the post to poo poo on Vit D. Body needs it. Good for health.

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've been noticing a lot of people recently taking absolutely massive daily doses of vitamin d. I know the flccc and anti-vax people are wild about vitamin d and think that's all you need to cure covid so I've seen a number of them taking these monster doses, but I've also noticed some in the long covid community also taking these monster doses I suppose in an attempt to find anything that makes them feel better. I don't think they're taking quite this much, and I don't actually know what constitutes an unsafe dose, but I've been thinking is that really safe to be taking that much vitamin d? Especially daily? Idk, but just a trend I've anecdotally noticed recently.

[-] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A doctor once prescribed vitamin d to me because I was deficient, I took 5,000 IU daily for a few months and felt fine. Wonder how much these people are taking

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

okay I found one guy saying he was doing 30,000 daily

another person saying 20-40,000 daily

another person saying 10,000 3x/day

another person saying he was doing 100,000/day for a while but now at 20-30,000 daily

a lot of other people saying they're taking massive doses, but only for temporary time periods

I know nothing about vitamin d but I take like 1000 daily. I was doing 2000 daily for a long time but my doctor said that's probably unnecessary. I was mostly just astounded at seeing how much vitamin d some people were taking.

edit: this from r/covidlonghaulers sub

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[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago

White person moment.

We don't need vitamin D supplements unless we are living down a hole

[-] atturaya@lemmygrad.ml 71 points 8 months ago

awful take:

  1. non-white countries have just as or higher rates of Vitamin D deficiency

  2. a huge percentage of people are Vitamin D deficient

  3. depending on where you live, for a large portion of the year because of the angle of the sun, there's no possibly way to get enough sunlight for Vitamin D production

basically everyone should be taking it. it's cheap and helps prevent a lot of health issues.

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 43 points 8 months ago

Why would I go outside into the sunlight when there are so many lotus flowers to eat in my dank filthy dark bedroom

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago

Here at the 45th parallel we definitely need Vitamin D supplements.

But it does feel like November-February is spent living down a hole so that tracks.

[-] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago

Do you live in a place with winter?

Non-white people are a lot worse at synthesizing vitamin D into their body through sunlight. To get enough vitamin D you need 30 minutes outside if white, 2 hours if black.

Winter depression is a thing because you go to work when it's dark, you leave work it's already sunset if you have an office job.

idk if those times even work in the winter when you don't even expose your entire face because it cold.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

Hmmm. I'm less convinced of this being a fact.

There have been at least a couple of studies done on surfers in Hawaii who are semi-professional or who report getting at least 15 hours of sun exposure per week (and we're talking a lot of time spent with their entire backs to the Hawaiian sun here too) and these studies have shown a surprising amount of vitamin D deficiency in the subjects.

Most people aren't getting anywhere near that amount of sun exposure and I'd hazard a guess that most people aren't consuming much liver in their diet.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Vitamin D synthesis with sun on skin doesn't just convert all sunlight into vitamin D. Your body will stop synthesizing it at a certain point. It's not possible to overdose from sunlight.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

I'm not saying that it's possible to overdose on vitamin D synthesised by exposure to sunlight, I'm just saying that I'm unconvinced that exposure to sunlight is in itself sufficient to meet vitamin D needs without dietary intake (especially for people who live a modern lifestyle where they don't necessarily get a lot of sun exposure).

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago

We don't need vitamin D supplements unless we are living down a hole

Or if you never logout

[-] penitentkulak@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Really depends on where you live. Just read a study by a university at my latitude where we get as little as 10 hrs a day of sun in the dead of winter. Even taking 1000IU's per day, healthy adults were losing vitamin D all winter, and some were falling into low levels by spring when levels naturally rebound. 2000IU's kept levels steady all winter. It's not like it's expensive either, I just bought a bottle for 10 bucks that will last me almost two years.

There definitely needs to be better regulations and clearer packaging on all vitamins and supplements though

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

When you walk with Jesus

He's gonna save your soul

But you gotta take your vitamins

Way dowwwwwn in the hole!

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

ilhan can't believe this us the only Omar we have

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

When you walk through hexbear

You'd better watch your back

When you post emojis

You walk a straight and narrow track

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[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 months ago
[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 8 months ago

if you can't fly close to the stars the next best thing is OD'ing on Vitamin D

[-] autism_2@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

orange juice fans have been real quiet since this dropped

[-] ComradeLove@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

Checkmate Vitamin D stans.

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

How I'm trying to be but by getting cooked by the sun (I go outside)

spoilerit's a joke I wear sunscreen

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