Vitamin D Levels Not Increasing by: Kerri Knox, RN-The Immune Health Queen!
Hi Stacey,
The first thing that I want to know is HOW LONG was your mother treated with 50,000 Iu's per week and did she get a maintenance dose afterwards?
The thing is, is that researchers think that we just need really high doses of Vitamin D and medicine just has not caught up with this yet. If you break it down 50,000 IU's per week is about 7000 IU's per day.
While this really SEEMS like a lot of Vitamin D, most suggestions for Vitamin D maintenance dosages are between 3800 to 5000 IU's per day. So really 7000 IU's per day is not that much. And there has never been a documented case of Vitamin D toxicity on under 10,000 IU's per day.
So, its likely that your mom is just simply not taking enough Vitamin D!! Another culprit COULD be that she is magnesium deficient- and a regular magnesium blood test will not tell you this. So, adding 300-600 mg of a magnesium chelate could help her to convert Vitamin D into the usable form in her bloodstream.
I'm not sure why your doctor took your mother off of calcium, though. Maybe because she is Vitamin D Deficient, he is concerned about her excreting too much calcium into her urine and developing problems there, but that doesn't really make any sense. You see, you need vitamin D to absorb calcium.
So since your mother is vitamin D deficient, most of the calcium that she is eating is not being absorbed. So by not getting calcium in supplements AND leaving her vitamin D deficient- it's likely that she is going to develop osteoporosis!!!
Her doc really needs to fix her vitamin D levels!
Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Health Queen Functional Medicine Practitioner Easy Immune Health.com
Vitamin D through the sun by: Kerri Knox, RN-The Immune Health Queen!
You can also help your mom to get some extra vitamin D by encouraging her to get out in the sun as much as possible and exposing as much of her skin as possible while doing it.
Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Health Queen Functional Medicine Practitioner Easy Immune Health.com
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