Excessive intake of Vit D3 Supplement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly, there is no need to take any supplements other than folic acid.

My “barely above ricket’s unless on supplements” vitamin D levels would like a word with you.

OP - I currently live just off the equator and still have to supplement and supplemented throughout my pregnancy. Toxic doses are somewhere around 10,000 iu daily over months. Also, most prenatal have D2-not D3-which doesn’t absorb as well. If you are concerned just have your doctor do a vitamin D levels when you have a blood draw next but don’t panic yourself.

Well, I'm not your doctor so I can't say. But you can absolutely take too much Vitamin D, and it's questionable if it's necessary at all for most people to supplement even if their blood levels are supposedly low. Especially during pregnancy, I would err on the side of not taking anything not strictly necessary.

Breastfed babies need to be supplemented with D, but the rest of us can just spend 10 minutes in the sun every day.

The Vitamin D craze was pushed by bad research and a single guy who profited off of it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/health/vitamin-d-deficiency-supplements.html
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/strategy/man-who-sold-america-vitamin-d-%E2%80%94-and-profited-process

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly, there is no need to take any supplements other than folic acid.

My “barely above ricket’s unless on supplements” vitamin D levels would like a word with you.

OP - I currently live just off the equator and still have to supplement and supplemented throughout my pregnancy. Toxic doses are somewhere around 10,000 iu daily over months. Also, most prenatal have D2-not D3-which doesn’t absorb as well. If you are concerned just have your doctor do a vitamin D levels when you have a blood draw next but don’t panic yourself.

Well, I'm not your doctor so I can't say. But you can absolutely take too much Vitamin D, and it's questionable if it's necessary at all for most people to supplement even if their blood levels are supposedly low. Especially during pregnancy, I would err on the side of not taking anything not strictly necessary.

Breastfed babies need to be supplemented with D, but the rest of us can just spend 10 minutes in the sun every day.

The Vitamin D craze was pushed by bad research and a single guy who profited off of it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/health/vitamin-d-deficiency-supplements.html
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/strategy/man-who-sold-america-vitamin-d-%E2%80%94-and-profited-process

My levels were 13 ng/ml before supplements. This was with eating fortified foods and walking to work daily.

Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy increases risk outcomes including preeclampsia. Which is why OP should check her levels rather than stop
cold turkey.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3540805/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Truly, there is no need to take any supplements other than folic acid.

Who’s this dumb? You get that some of us have had blood tests that show we’re deficient, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly, there is no need to take any supplements other than folic acid.

Who’s this dumb? You get that some of us have had blood tests that show we’re deficient, right?

read the links. vitamin d deficiancy is a fad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly, there is no need to take any supplements other than folic acid.

Who’s this dumb? You get that some of us have had blood tests that show we’re deficient, right?

PP would rather ignore the actual science that vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy is an actual risk to mom and baby.

The lack of vitamin D during pregnancy is the most important risk factor for infantile rickets and may also result in poor fetal growth and neonatal development (8,9,10,11). In addition, its deficiency in pregnant women may predispose to gestational diabetes mellitus and preeclampsia (12,13).Feb 26, 2018

Vitamin D Deficiency in Pregnant Women and Their Infants - J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol. 2018 Mar; 10(1): 44–50. Published online 2018 Feb 26. doi: 10.4274/jcrpe.4706 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5838372/

Relation of maternal vitamin D status with gestational diabetes mellitus and perinatal outcome - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480463/
Maternal early pregnancy vitamin D status in relation to fetal and neonatal growth: results of the multi-ethnic Amsterdam Born Children and their Development cohort - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20193097

For just a few scientific articles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly, there is no need to take any supplements other than folic acid.

Who’s this dumb? You get that some of us have had blood tests that show we’re deficient, right?

PP would rather ignore the actual science that vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy is an actual risk to mom and baby.

The lack of vitamin D during pregnancy is the most important risk factor for infantile rickets and may also result in poor fetal growth and neonatal development (8,9,10,11). In addition, its deficiency in pregnant women may predispose to gestational diabetes mellitus and preeclampsia (12,13).Feb 26, 2018

Vitamin D Deficiency in Pregnant Women and Their Infants - J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol. 2018 Mar; 10(1): 44–50. Published online 2018 Feb 26. doi: 10.4274/jcrpe.4706 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5838372/

Relation of maternal vitamin D status with gestational diabetes mellitus and perinatal outcome - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480463/
Maternal early pregnancy vitamin D status in relation to fetal and neonatal growth: results of the multi-ethnic Amsterdam Born Children and their Development cohort - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20193097

For just a few scientific articles.

And yet there is no good evidence that vitamin D supplements in pregnancy do any good: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747784/?report=reader

It’s weird to me that pregnant women will avoid sushi yet fill up on supplements ...