UK people and doctors still clueless about vitamin D – Survey

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

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

• 21 reasons why doctors are 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