Did you know?
- Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide
- Most asthmatics have low Vitamin D levels
- Adding Vitamin D decreases asthma: proven by many random controlled trials
(More Asthma info below)
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If you have a disease associated with low Vit D take Vit D
Raising your Vit D levels will substantially prevent other low-Vit D health problems
Often your specific health problem will also be treated
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- Adult-onset asthma 30 percent more likely if low vitamin D 4 years before – May 2018
- Child Asthma increased 2.1 X by antibiotics, Child milk allergy increased 4.4 X by PPI – April 2018
- Asthmatic children taking Corticosteroids had 2X more vitamin D intake, but lower levels – July 2017
- Vitamin D supplements could halve risk of serious asthma attacks – Cochrane conclusion – Sept 2016
- Traffic pollution increases asthma unless supplement with Vitamin D (mice) June 2018
- Childhood asthma problems eliminated for months by 600,000 IU of Vitamin D – June 2017
- Asthma reduced 60 percent with vitamin D supplementation – meta-analysis 2014, 2015
- Proof that Vitamin D Works 86 health problems prevented/treated as of May 2018
Asthma has been proven to be treated by Vitamin D in at least 4 random controlled trials - Childhood asthma still reduced 4 months after 800 IU of Vitamin D daily - RCT Feb 2016
- Women with asthma 35X more likely to be vitamin D deficient – Oct 2013
- Search VitaminDWiki for ASTHMA in title 193 items as of May 2018
- Childhood asthma about 1.3 times more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis Aug 2016
- If high vitamin D during pregnancy the child is 5X less likely to get asthma
- Asthma is treated by Vitamin D – now they are trying to understand why – Feb 2015
- Increase in vitamin D deficiency may partially explain increases in asthma and allergies – Jan 2015
- Asthma attacks reduced in half if Vitamin D level higher than 42 nanograms – RCT May 2014 intervention
- Should Vitamin D Supplementation Be a Regular Part of Asthma Care – Oct 2013
- Strong Vitamin D deficiency associations in Asthma patients – Nov 2014
- Increase in vitamin D deficiency may partially explain increases in asthma and allergies – Jan 2015
- Allergies and asthma – overwhelming experimental evidence that vitamin D helps – more studies needed – Dec 2014
- All items in Breathing and Vitamin D
315 items includes Asthma, Pneunomia, RTI, TB, Allergy, COPD - Search VitaminDWiki for Wheeze 756 items as of May 2018
- Asthma much worse in city with little vitamin D – March 2014 - less UV and less outdoors ==> less vitamin D
- More lung capacity (bronchial asthma, FEV1) associated with higher vitamin D – July 2013
- Why deficiencies in vitamin D and magnesium are linked to asthma Magnesium allows muscles to relax
- All items in category Autoimmune and Vitamin D
115 items - Video by Dr. Coimbra – 95 percent of auto-immune cured with vitamin D in high doses - April 2014
- Acetaminophen (Tylenol) increases asthma wonder if Tylenol decreased vitamin D,which increases Asthma
- The worse the bronchial asthma, the lower the vitamin D – Jan 2017
Recent studies in Breathing and Intervention categories (give vitamin D and see what happens) in VitaminDWiki:- All asthma problems reduced after 1 year of Vitamin D – Nov 2017
- Asthma treated by daily 50,000 IU of Vitamin D – April 2018
- Childhood Respiratory Health hardly improved with 600 IU of vitamin D (need much more) – May 2018
- Influenza risk reduced 2X by 2,000 IU of Vitamin D (vs 400), RTI reduced 3X by 400 or more IU – July 2017
- Influenza -A infections half as often in children getting 1200 IU of vitamin D – RCT Jan 2018
- Risk of infant Asthma cut in half if mother supplemented Vitamin D to get more than 30 ng – RCT Oct 2017
- Childhood asthma problems eliminated for months by 600,000 IU of Vitamin D – June 2017
- Reduction of infant asthma may require good vitamin D when lung development starts (4 weeks) – March 2017
- Monthly 100,000 IU of vitamin D decreased respiratory infection but increased falls – Nov 2016
- RTI – Feel much better if increase vitamin D level above 40 ng (4000 IU) – RCT Sept 2015
- Five times less mite allergy when vitamin D added in mid pregnancy and to infant – RCT April 2016
- Childhood asthma still reduced 4 months after 800 IU of Vitamin D daily - RCT Feb 2016
- Asthma exacerbations with colds reduced by 40 percent with vitamin D supplementation – Nov 2015
- Allergic Rhinitis (hay fever) reduced by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D for 30 days – RCT Sept 2015
- Vitamin D loading dose then weekly 50,000 IU not help (COPD) if very deficient – Oct 2015
- Respiratory tract infection eliminated in 36 percent of people by 4000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT Sept 2015
- COPD reduced by 40 percent with monthly 100,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Jan 2015
- 500,000 IU of vitamin D cut in half the hospital days following a lung failure – RCT 2015
- Respiratory infections cut in half by 20,000 IU weekly vitamin D if initially deficient – RCT March 2015
- Wheezing reduced 35 percent if vitamin D added during pregnancy – April 2015
See also on the web
- Asthma Overview Vitamin D council update Nov 2015
1,000 IU of vitamin D per 25 lbs of body weight; 23 references - Asthmatics exhale better if higher level of Vitamin D - 2018
Correlation between the vitamin D levels and asthma attacks in children: Evaluation of the effects of combination therapy of atomization inhalation of budesonide, albuterol and vitamin D supplementation on asthmatic patients.
MEF25 = Maximal Expiratory Flow at 25% of Forced Vital Capacity
Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki - US Clinical Trials 54 Vitamin D intervention trials for Asthma of April 2018, including
- 4,000 IU daily prevention by supplementing pregnant mother
- 2,000 IU daily
- Studies Suggest an Acetaminophen-Asthma Link NYT Dec 2011 - NOT vitamin D
The sharp worldwide increase in childhood asthma over the past 30 years has long perplexed researchers,
Doctors stopped giving aspirin to children with fevers, opting instead for acetaminophen. (Reyes - 1980's)
VitaminDWiki wonders if this association deals with world-wide, latitude, etc. - International patent for vitamin D and analogs to prevent asthma
(WO2005079464) VITAMIN D RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS AND THEIR USE IN TREATING ASTHMA - Why are asthma rates higher among children now than in the past? Medical Expresss Nov 2012
Have given up on many previous hypothesis, and now considering vitamin D deficiency] - Mendelian randomization analysis demonstrates that low vitamin D is unlikely causative for pediatric asthma. Aug 2016
Behind a paywall. Yes, few studies showing that low Vitamin D CAUSES asthma,
but there are many studies show that Vitamin D treats asthma. Study is behind a $36 paywall - Effects of vitamin D levels on asthma control and severity in pre-school children 2016
Ages 1-4, winter, free PDF online
10 ng/ml in the asthma group and 15 ng/ml control group - Vitamin d insufficiency and asthma severity in adults from Costa Rica Sept 2013
5X less likely to be hospitalized for Asthma if adequate vitamin D
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