Vitamin D Supplementation in Children With Sickle Cell Disease
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- Overview Sickle Cell and Vitamin D
- Sickle Cell pain reduced for 6 months by 100,000 IU vitamin D weekly for 6 weeks - Oct 2015_
- Very low levels of vitamin D in Sickle Cell Patients, lower than just dark skin - March 2017
- Sickle cell Vitamin D deficiency corrected with 160 K IU loading dose – July 2014
- Sickle Cell children need more than 7,000 IU of vitamin D daily – May 2015
- Sickle Cell Anemia: 64 percent had less than 10ng of vitamin D – April 2012
- Injection category listing has
62 items along with related searches
Items in both categories of Bone Health and Dark Skin are listed below
- Vitamin D should be an almost universal feature of the care of young adults with sickle cell disease – May 2018
- Vitamin D paradox – Blacks need Vit D for health, but not as much D for strong bones – May 2018
- Sickle Cell clinical trial will inject 300,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT due 2020
- Sickle Cell children need more than 7,000 IU of vitamin D daily – May 2015
- Overview Sickle Cell and Vitamin D
- Sickle cell Vitamin D deficiency corrected with 160 K IU loading dose – July 2014
- Bone density does not decrease with lower vitamin D levels in blacks as it does in whites – April 2014
- Vitamin D different relationship between whites and blacks for bone and plaque – June 2012
- Sickle cell and low vitamin D – 3 presentations Dec 2012
- Forearm fracture 3.5X more often in black children with low levels of vitamin D – Sept 2012
- Sickle Cell Anemia: 64 percent had less than 10ng of vitamin D – April 2012
- Black seniors near equator: increased vitamin D decreases bone density – Sept 2011
- 14000 IU vitamin D (50000 twice a week) often stops Sickle Cell pain
- Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D (for their bones)
- Low vitamin D before orthopedic surgery – dark skin 5X more likely – Oct 2010
- Arthritis 2X as severe in African-Americans - April 2010
Getting Vitamin D into your body shows the many ways of getting Vitamin D
Vitamin D injection of 600,000 IU (response by 10 individuals)– Sept 2017
Notice:
Responses to injection varied widely
80 % peaked by about 3 months
20 % did not peak by 6 monthsPrinter Friendly Follow this page for updates5843 visitors, last modified 27 Feb, 2018,