UK people and doctors still clueless about vitamin D – Survey Oct 2014

Call for children to be given vitamin D as cases of rickets triple

• Survey A: 1,000 parents of children aged five and under
  half know little or nothing about the role of vitamin D in their child’s health
  more than a third have never received information about the importance of the vitamin for their child’s health
  More than 80 per cent were unaware of the Department of Health (DoH) guidance that all children aged six months to five years old should take a daily supplement of vitamin D
      Note by VitaminDWiki – nothing for ages 0-6 months?
• Survey B: 250 GPs and health visitors
  almost a third are unaware of the DoH guidance
  Just seven % of those who are responsible for conveying key healthcare messages to new mothers were aware which months (between March and September)

Above article refers people to http://www.vitamindmission.co.uk

• Toddlers need 280 IU daily.
• Upper safe limit 625 IU/day for infants 0–12 months

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See also VitaminDWiki

• 3X more kids were vitamin D deficient when entering UK hospitals than 4 years before – Oct 2014
• Third study found that Infants needed 1600 IU of vitamin D – JAMA RCT May 2013
  1600 IU is needed - yet the UK says 625 IU is the upper limint
• Post-mortem analysis of children in London Hospital – only 1 child had adequate level of vitamin D – July 2014
• Rickets in England – huge recent increase – Feb 2014
• NHS (UK) mistakenly says more than 1000 IU of vitamin D can be harmful – Dec 2013
• Why the UK government ignores evidence for the benefits of Vitamin D - Nov 2013
• Rickets reduced 60X - lessons learned by Turkey 2011 they gave, for free, 400 IU vitamin D to ALL infants
• Perhaps half of Russian children have rickets, 500 IU vitamin D was not enough – June 2013
• Rickets: Less costly to prevent than to treat SE Asians in UK – 2006 yet 10 years later the UK still does not provide vitamin D
• Infant-Child category listing with associated searches
• UK program to increase Vitamin D (Healthy Start) continues to be a farce - Nov 2014
• 17 reasons why are doctors reluctant to accept vitamin D
• Do not expect your doctor to know about vitamin D
• Why doctors are so reluctant to try new things like vitamin D
• 2000 IU of vitamin D- doctors trained that it was too much, but it is often too little
• Doctors: If you pick one vitamin, make it D (99 cent ebook) – Jan 2016
• Do not expect a doctor to recommend a pill which will eliminate his job (vitamin D)
• Doctors rarely (15 prcnt) talked about Vitamin D and with very little ambiguity (96 prcnt)– Aug 2016

Country Surveys

• Doctors have a lot to learn about Vitamin D (Polish doctors in this case) – July 2021
• Doctors not consistent on prescribing Vitamin D (Pakistan in this case) July 2018
• UK people and doctors still clueless about vitamin D – Survey Oct 2014
• UK survey of vitamin D knowledge of midwives - 2011
• Vitamin D survey of general practitioners in New Zealand – June 2013
• Dutch doctors still have a lot to learn about Vitamin D – survey Dec 2018

Controversies and Consensus

• Minimum National Vitamin D recommendations range from 200 to 4,000 IU – July 2021
• Controversies and consensus in Vitamin D – 3rd Conference Sept 2019
• Vitamin D supplementation guidelines (adults – 50,000 IU per week) – Feb 2017
• Seniors need at least 4,000 IU vitamin D, no test needed – Consensus Jan 2014