Is Vitamin D Deficiency a Risk Factor for Covid 19 in Children?
Pediatr Pulmonol. 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.1002/ppul.25106
Kamil Yılmaz 1, Velat Şen 2
40 Children in Turkey : ages 1 month to 18 years
Turkey has been giving free Vitamin D to all infants for over 10 years
- Turkey stops giving free Vitamin D at age 1 for some reason,
- but it appears that many parents continue with the supplementation
- Rickets reduced 60X - lessons learned by Turkey 2011
Virus and infant-child studies are listed here:
- Childhood vaccinations are recommended, not mandatory - Japan since 1994
- 4.4 X INCREASE in other respiratory infections in children with influenza vaccinations – RCT June 2012
- Children with Long-COVID 2.2 X more likely to have with low vitamin D – Feb 2025
- Children who had COVID had 2.2 X higher risk of long COVID if had less than 30 ng of Vitamin D – Jan 2025
- Multiple Childhood Vaccinations increased autism risk by 4.4 X (Florida) – Jan 2025
- Pfizer COVID vaccinations resulted in altering immune systems (increased IgG4 ) – Aug 2024
- FDA study of 4 million children found 2 COVID-19 vaccination red flags, but continue to push boosters – May 2024
- Children in hospital: those with COVID had lower Vitamin D, Iron, etc. – April 2024
- US has the most vaccinations before age 1 and the most deaths - March 2024
- 18,000 schoolchildren in Canada to be suspended for not being vaccinated - Feb 2024
- COVID Vaccinated Children 1.25 X More Likely to Be Hospitalized for Respiratory Illness - CDC Jan 2024
- France has injected 200,000 infants with RSV vaccine, based on no long-term data - Here we go again - Dec 2023
- Brazil mandates COVID-19 vaccine for children - Nov 2023
- Doctors in NY cannot opt out of COVID boosters for children - Oct 2023
- Infants getting lots of vaccinations are 2X more likely to die - July 2023
- COVID, Long-COVID and Vitamin D in children - Review April 2023
- Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome of COVID in Children 3X more likely if low Vitamin D – Feb 2023
- PICU layoffs due to pandemic lulls, but children are now getting 3 years of viral infection all at once – Oct 2022
- COVID 5.5 X more likely to be severe if low Vitamin D (children in this case) – Oct 2022
- Tripledemic: Flu, COVID, and RSV (all fought by Vitamin D) - Oct 2022
- CDC advised to recommended annual COVID vaccination of all children over 6 months old – Oct 20, 2022
- 6X increase in excess deaths of children since vaccinations were started - Oct 2022
- Early puberty during pandemic (low vitamin D) - several studies
- COVID kids were more likely to have a poor VDR (4.3 X), than low Vitamin D (2.6 X) – Sept 2022
- Recent increases in pediatric endocrine problems may be decreased by Vitamin D – Aug 2022
- COVID children helped by Vitamin D, trial terminated: unethical to not give Vitamin D to all: – RCT July 2022
- Increase in children with low vitamin D and with tibia fractures during COVID – June 2022
- 28,859 deaths and 238,412 serious injuries due to vaccines, how many more when add ages 0.5 - 5 – June 2022
- Pandemic Vitamin D levels dropped by 3.3 ng (perhaps less D, more health problems) – May 2022
- Problems after childhood vaccinations - many studies
- FDA approved 5-11 vaccine booster (based tiny unpublished study without asking advisory panel) May 2022
- Remdesivir approved to treat COVID in Infants, yet Vitamin D is 3000 X more cost effective and widely used - April 2022
- Risk factors for severe COVID in children are all related to low vitamin D (same as adults) - April 2022
- Hepatitis normally rare in children: huge increase after lockdown (Adenovirus, low Vitamin D) - April 2022
- Children with higher Vitamin D had less severe COVID (no surprise) – April 2022
- Children have less severe COVID, but just as much long-haul as adults - April 2022
- Croup (due to viruses) has surged with Omicron - March 2022
- COVID children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome have less than 10 ng of vitamin D – March 2022
- 16,000 Physicians and Scientists Agree Kids Shouldn’t Get COVID Vaccine - Dec 15, 2021
- Younger are much less likely to die of COVID than elderly (posters) - Nov 2021
- COVID Vaccination trial for kids: 11 red flags - Oct 25, 2021
- Children and COVID - many studies
- 8 of 10 pediatric COVID-19 infections were Vitamin D deficient (49 patients) – May 2021
- Severe pediatric COVID 5.5 more likely if low vitamin D (review of 6 studies) -July 2021
- Sudden Infant Deaths (SIDS) soon after vaccination - several studies
- Hospitalized children with COVID-19 and inflammation had lower vitamin D – March 2021
- Severe childhood COVID-19 associated with Vitamin D deficiency (hospital in Turkey) – March 2021
- Vitamin D might reduce Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in children – March 2021
- 87 percent of children with COVID–19 had low vitamin D (small study) – Feb 2021
- Vaccinations resulted in increased office visits for children 16 months later - Nov 2020
This was also reported as: Vitamin D associated with reduced COVID-19 risks in children - Grassroots Nov 2020
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Objective: COVID 19 is a global health problem that can result in serious complications. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and clinical importance of vitamin D deficiency in children with COVID-19.
Material and methods: This study includes 40 patients who were diagnosed to have COVID- 19 and hospitalized with the real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method, 45 healthy matched control subjects with normal vitamin D levels. The age of admission, clinical and laboratory data, and 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25-OHD) levels were recorded. Those with vitamin D levels which are below 20 ng/ml were determined as Group 1 and those with ≥20 ng/ml as Group 2.
Results: Patients with COVID- 19 had significantly lower vitamin D levels 13.14 μg/L (4.19-69.28) than did the controls 34.81(3.8-77.42) μg/L (p < 0.001). Patients with COVID- 19 also had significantly lower serum phosphorus (4.09±0.73 vs. 5.06±0.93vs (U/L) (p<0.001) values compared with the controls. The symptom of fever was significantly higher in COVID- 19 patients who had deficient and insufficient vitamin D levels than in patients who had sufficient vitamin D levels (p=0.038). There was a negative correlation found between fever symptom and vitamin D level (r=-0.358, p = 0.023).
Conclusion: This is the first to evaluate vitamin D levels and its relationship with clinical findings in pediatric patients with COVID-19. Our results suggest that vitamin D values may be associated with the occurrence and management of the COVID-19 disease by modulating the immunological mechanism to the virus in the pediatric population. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.