Posted on 10/16/2009 6:23:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
RIP.
My kids are all getting a dose of cod liver oil each morning - line ‘em up and spoon it in. High in D3.
Think asthma as an underlying condition.
Is all vit D containg D3?
Someone else wrote: >>My kids are all getting a dose of cod liver oil each morning - line ‘em up and spoon it in. High in D3.<<
You asked: “Does all vit D contain D3?”
Regarding the cod liver oil, yes it’s high in vit D3, but it’s also got way too much vit A which Dr. Cannell at the VitaminDCouncil.org website claims works against the D3. He advocates taking D3 directly and getting Vitamin A from food sources instead. Just thought you’d want to know so you could check on it further.
As for Vitamin D containing D3, actually no. Prescription Vitamin D, as well as the vitamin D used to supplement milk is D2, which is the activated form of D3. As I understand it, many other body organs have receptors for D3 and need it for their purposes. This is where the cancer fighting, flu fighting, etc., goes on, so prescription vitamin D (D2) will not do the job. You want to be taking Vitamin D3, called cholecalciferol to get the benefits the vitamin D advocates are talking about.
People seem to respond differently to vit D3 supplements, so it’s best to get a baseline measurement and then check it again after supplementing for a few months. I check mine twice a year, at the end of the winter to see if I’ve been taking enough daily to maintain (I wasn’t, and increased it this winter) and at the end of the summer to see if I’m getting enough from sunshine to not need supplementing then (I dropped 10 points in spite of being outside a lot, so will now supplement modestly over next summer.)
Most people are not up in the recommended 50-80 ng/ml range and should take extra early on, then look for an appropriate maintenance dose. A good start for a maintenance dose is 1,000 IU per 30 pounds of body weight, according to the D3 advocates, so a 150 pound person should take 5,000 IU during the winter. This is well above the upper limit the Feds recommend (2,000 IU, I believe), so it’s best to do some research before jumping in. I’m taking 8,000 to 10,000 a day for a month or so now to get back up after inadvertently dropping over the summer. Then I’ll go to 5,000 daily and retest in March or April.
If it weren’t for price controls advocated by our current SoS, we might have enough H1N1 vaccine. Other than that, the government can stay out of it, as far as I’m concerned. It’s the flu. We’ll get through it like we get through all the other flus.
If you’re sick, stay home. If you have young children or elderly relatives, get the shot.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I have some concern about this, but my question has always been:
WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT THIS H1N1 FLU?
No-one ever answered that. All we get is “Swine Flu is spreading!” and “we need vaccines!” Nothing explaining why this is worse than any other.
Finally last month a woman here on FR tried to answer me. She claimed to be a nurse or some sort. The gist I got was: H1N1 is highly contagious, but not really bad in itself. The danger becomes mutation with much more dangerous flus - such as Bird Flu - to produce a highly contagious AND powerful flu mutation. IOW, it MIGHT combine with slow Bird Flu to make a super flu.
Then, when my 18mo boy got sick the other week and I took him to his pediatrician, I asked about the H1N1 and told the doc how no-one answers that question. He said it’s mostly hype, and not really much different (i.e., fatal or otherwise devastating) than other flus. He did the general flu check for George, who was declared to have just some cold virus.
Does anyone have a list of the common “underlying problems”?
My wild guess is going to be asthma. A lot of the cases I’ve read about result in people dying from a secondary respiratory condition like pneumonia. So, it’s possible that some of the “healthy” people have undiagnosed asthma, allergies, or other conditions which predispose them to bad respiratory crap.
All it takes is a common cold for me to end up with bronchitis or pneumonia. After years of dealing this, my doctor diagnosed me with asthma and put me on a maintenance steroid and a rescue inhaler. No respiratory issues since. And I’m amazed at how much better I can breathe in general — I had no idea how bad it was until I found out how good it can be the asthma is under control(if that makes sense).
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