300,000 IU Vitamin D injection before brain tumor surgery – RCT to finish Dec 2017

Clinical Trial Entry: Therapeutic Benefit of Preoperative Supplemental Vitamin D in Patients Undergoing Brain Tumor Surgery

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Results: Following brain surgery Vitamin D injections did not raise blood levels much – RCT June 2019
Not clear when the vitamin D injection will be given – hopefully >3 days before the surgery
60 patients – including the 30 controls who will not get any Vitamin D

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VitaminDWiki

Expects that there will be very few RCT’s like this in the future.
It will become morally wrong to not give Vitamin D to all surgery, ICU, etc. patients

• Vitamin D and critically ill patients (book chapter) – April 2017
• Sepsis is both prevented and treated by Vitamin D - many studies both RCTs and meta-analyses
• Vitamin D is Way More Important in Critical Care Than We May Have Recognized - June 2017
• Vitamin D loading doses reduce ICU mortality by 30 percent – meta-analysis April 2017
• Surgical ICU – 2.7 X more likely go home if OK vitamin D – Sept 2015
• 1 in 6 critically ill taking lots of vitamin D (100 ng) – March 2015 India
• Hospital ICU added high dose vitamin D - malpractice lawsuit costs dropped from 26 million dollars to ZERO - Oct 2016

Overview Loading of vitamin D contains the following

Loading dose: 207 studies at VitaminDWiki

Vitamin D loading dose (stoss therapy) proven to improve health overview
If a person is or is suspected to be, very vitamin D deficient a loading dose should be given

• Loading = restore = quick replacement by 1 or more doses
• Loading doses range in total size from 100,000 IU to 1,000,000 IU of Vitamin D3
  • = 2.5 to 25 milligrams
• The size of the loading dose is a function of body weight - see below
  • Unfortunately, some doctors persist in using Vitamin D2 instead of D3
• Loading may be done as quickly as a single day (Stoss), to as slowly as 3 months.
  • It appears that spreading the loading dose over 4+ days is slightly better if speed is not essential
• Loading is typically oral, but can be Injection (I.M,) and Topical
• Loading dose is ~3X faster if done topically or swished inside of the mouth
  • Skips the slow process of stomach and intestine, and might even skip liver and Kidney as well
• The loading dose persists in the body for 1 - 3 months
  • The loading dose should be followed up with on-going maintenance dosing
  • Unfortunately, many doctors fail to follow-up with the maintenance dosing.
• About 1 in 300 people have some form of a mild allergic reaction to vitamin D supplements, including loading doses
  • it appears prudent to test with a small amount of vitamin D before giving a loading dose
  • The causes of a mild allergic reaction appear to be: (in order of occurrence)
  • 1) lack of magnesium - which can be easily added
  • 2) allergy to capsule contents - oil, additives (powder does not appear to cause any reaction)
  • 3) allergy to the tiny amount of D3 itself (allergy to wool) ( alternate: D3 made from plants )
  • 4) allergy of the gut to Vitamin D - alternative = topical

Injection category contains the following

65 items in Vitamin D Injection category

• Vitamin D injections last longer (3 month vs 2 month) than loading doses
• Getting Vitamin D into your body shows the many ways of getting Vitamin D

• Injections are currently made by medical professionals into muscle
• Home injection of Vitamin D appears to be possible in the future
• Injections are useful for people who might forget to take their periodic supplement (children, elderly, etc) and those who cannot swallow or have poor digestion
• While Vitamin D2 is historically the common form, Vitamin D3 is far better
• Should check (if there is time) for possible allergic reaction to Vitamin D or lack of Magnesium for both for loading dose and injection
• Note 600,000 IU Vitamin D loading dose via capsules is 1/20th the cost($2.40) of an injection, and does not require a prescription
• 100,000 IU single dose of vitamin D - 2010 has the following
  
• Vitamin D injection lasts longer and has bigger response than weekly oral – Jan 2017 has the following
  
• Non-oral Vitamin D should be a better form for MS, food allergy, PTSD, etc. – many studies might include injection