Rapidly restore Vitamin D levels with 10,000 IU per kg for children in ICU – RCT 2024

VITdALIZE-KIDS Randomized Controlled Trial in Canada

Trials in Pediatric Intensive Care Units

Corrected gestational age 37 weeks to age 18 years

Up to a maximum of 400,000 IU

Estimated Study Start Date : January, 2019

Estimated Study Completion Date : March, 2023

Loading doses have been used to quickly restore adult Vitamin D levels for almost a century

The loading doses have been given in as little as a single day or spaced out as long as 8 weeks (50,000 IU weekly for 8 weeks is extremely common prescription)

Loading doses are typically oral, but somtimes injection or IV are used, such as when the person is unable to swallow

Personal note by Henry Lahore, founder of VitaminDWiki

• I keep 600,000 IU of vitamin D in my car in case of emergency

  • Scores of Trauma/Surgery studies have found Vitamin D loading doses to save thousands of lives.

• I anticipate that a loading dose will be the "standard of care" to rapidly restore vitamin D levels by 2030

  • The medical profession changes their protocols extremely slowly.

  • restoration by a maintenance dose (for example: 4,000 IU daily) takes 3-6 months

See also VitaminDWiki

• 400,000 IU of vitamin D reduced adult pain and improved quality of life – March 2014

• Overview Loading of vitamin D

• 600,000 vitamin D loading doses – good response to both oral and muscular – Oct 2015

• Restore Vitamin D levels with 200,000–400,000 IU over 2 months, followed by on-going – March 2018

• Trauma and surgery category listing has items along with related searches

• Healthy in Seven Days - Loading dose of Vitamin D – book 2014 has the following chart

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