HIV children in UK – Vitamin D recommendations – Feb 2014

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VitaminDWiki Recommendations

Do not wait until Autumn and a vitamin D test
In fact, not vitamin D test is rarely needed.
Virtually every HIV person is low on vitamin D
Use a restoring dose of a total of about 300,000 IU over 1 month
Followed by a maintenace dose of ab least 2,000 IU daily (average)

See also VitaminDWiki

• Overview HIV and vitamin D
• Overview Loading of vitamin D
• 7000 IU of vitamin D restored most HIV youths to above 32 ng - RCT March 2014
• Treatment of HIV in youths helped by 7,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT July 2014 for an entire year