Vitamin overdose?
Well, please this is no expert advice but if i remember correctly from pharmacology class (finishing up med school now) Fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, K because of their method of absorption , storage, and excretion can reach harmful levels more readily. It is more difficult injest enough water soluble vitamins (such as vit c) to reach harmful levels for the same reason.
Please do not take this as medical advice, go see a doctor if you are concerned
Please do not take this as medical advice, go see a doctor if you are concerned
Here is a table that explains toxic amounts of the fat soluble vitamins and the symptoms:
vitamin A 100,000 units/day irritability, fatigue, insomnia, painful bones and joints, abnormal bone growth, loss of hair, itchy skin, anorexia, decreased blood clotting time, birth defects, abortions. In children: malaise and fatigue, desquamation of the skin and mucous membranes, abnormal growth, and pain an tenderness in the long bones. Pseudotumour cerebri, manifesting as headache and irritability
vitamin E Not established
(probably high) possible increase in blood pressure
vitamin D 4000-10,000IU /day anorexia, nausea, diarrhea, muscular weakness, joint pains, calcification of soft tissues, resorption of bone. In children: weakness, lethargy, anorexia and constipation, and chronic overdosage results in hypercalcemia, nephrocalcinosis and eventually azotemia
vitamin K3
(menadione) Not established possible thrombosis, vomiting, porphynuria in pregnancy can cause jaundice in the newborn, block the effects of oral anticoagulants.
vitamin K1
(phytonadione) Not considered
toxic
vitamin K2
(menaquinone) Not considered
toxic
vitamin A 100,000 units/day irritability, fatigue, insomnia, painful bones and joints, abnormal bone growth, loss of hair, itchy skin, anorexia, decreased blood clotting time, birth defects, abortions. In children: malaise and fatigue, desquamation of the skin and mucous membranes, abnormal growth, and pain an tenderness in the long bones. Pseudotumour cerebri, manifesting as headache and irritability
vitamin E Not established
(probably high) possible increase in blood pressure
vitamin D 4000-10,000IU /day anorexia, nausea, diarrhea, muscular weakness, joint pains, calcification of soft tissues, resorption of bone. In children: weakness, lethargy, anorexia and constipation, and chronic overdosage results in hypercalcemia, nephrocalcinosis and eventually azotemia
vitamin K3
(menadione) Not established possible thrombosis, vomiting, porphynuria in pregnancy can cause jaundice in the newborn, block the effects of oral anticoagulants.
vitamin K1
(phytonadione) Not considered
toxic
vitamin K2
(menaquinone) Not considered
toxic
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