An 89-year-old retired businessman died from an “overdose” of Vitamin D supplements that did not warn about the risks of excessive intake.

David Mitchener from Oxted, Surrey, reportedly had fatally high levels of Vitamin D when he was brought to the East Surrey Hospital last year in May and was suffering from hypercalcaemia – a build-up of calcium in the body associated with taking too much vitamin D.

He died ten days later.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Here at the 45th parallel we definitely need Vitamin D supplements.

    But it does feel like November-February is spent living down a hole so that tracks.