How an increasingly popular supplement got a man hospitalized - Egypt Independent
(CNN) – A British man’s vitamin D overdose is a cautionary tale for people considering adding supplements to their lives, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Case Reports. After visiting a private nutritionist, the man began taking more than 20 over-the-counter supplements daily, including 50,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D three times a day. That’s a dose hundreds of times higher than standard nutritional recommendations. Within a month, the man started suffering from nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea and repeated vomiting, along with leg cramps and ringing in the ears. The man, whose name was not disclosed, heard about the supplement on a radio talk show and contacted a nutritionist on the show afterwards, said Dr. Alamin Alkundi, a co-author of the report and an endocrinologist at William Harvey hospital in East Kent in England, who treated the man. “Registration by regulators is not mandatory for nutritionists in the UK and their degrees are not prote