Do you by any chance know if its okay to do these amounts of the D-3 if one has cold symptoms?
Four of my friends came down with the same Bad Cold Symptoms on the same day, and 2 were found a few days later to have bronchitis.
My symptoms ALMOST vanish for a few hours if I take 5OOO IU of the D-3, but they only "almost" vanish and then all return and I'm back in bed.
I do NOT want to get pneumonia nor bronchitis, and I have no lung pang or difficulty breathing, mainly I'm sleeping and/or sniffling, sneezing & chilled.
No fever, no muscle aches - have NO idea if any of us had H1N1....
So I can do HIGH doses of D-3, up to 30,000 IU daily with no adverse effects until I am well?
Thanks.
HP
It’s actually a hat trick, if you can pull it off. You will get from 20-30,000 IU of Vitamin D from 15 minutes of sunlight on a lot of skin. However, there is a delay before it gets into your bloodstream of perhaps two days. So you get the sunlight, and *also* take 30,000 IU to close the gap, until the natural stuff kicks in. Importantly, you must find out if you have any sensitivity to Vitamin D first, as a few people react to the pill form with as little as 3,000 IU.
Unless you are in one of those places where it is mostly dark, cold and with little sun. It would be a very good idea to get a natural light sun lamp if you live there.
When you have a cold or the flu, several of your vitamins can become quickly depleted, not just Vitamin D. So it is good to take some Vitamin C, and a *normal* dose, *no more*, of Vitamin A, because you can most certainly take too much Vitamin A.
I would personally suggest having some Wheat Germ, as well, because it has some of the less common nutrients, such as Vitamin E, folate (folic acid), phosphorus, thiamine, zinc and magnesium, as well as essential fatty acids and fatty alcohols.
From there, the rules are different, depending on whether your infection is viral or bacterial. An URT and sinus bacterial infection often shows up in green or yellow mucous. In either case, be mentally ready to take it to a doctor if it suddenly becomes acute, you experience breathing problems, or you start to cough up blood.
If it is just a regular disease, you might drop down to 6,000 IU of Vitamin D a day, in two or three doses. Save the really big doses for when it is a dangerous disease, not just an annoying one.
.....In adults, taking 1250 μg (50,000 IU)/day for several months can produce toxicity. Vitamin D toxicity can occur iatrogenically when hypoparathyroidism is treated too aggressively (see Fluid and Electrolyte Metabolism: Treatment).
Symptoms
The main symptoms result from hypercalcemia. Anorexia, nausea, and vomiting can develop, often followed by polyuria, polydipsia, weakness, nervousness, pruritus, and eventually renal failure. Proteinuria, urinary casts, azotemia, and metastatic calcifications (particularly in the kidneys) can develop.
Diagnosis
Hypercalcemia plus risk factors or elevated serum 25(OH)D levels
A history of excessive vitamin D intake may be the only clue differentiating vitamin D toxicity from other causes of hypercalcemia......