The most dangerous vitamin: Its overdose is worse than its deficiency! The consequences are fatal: –

The lack of this vitamin is truly dangerous: it leads to rickets in children, osteoporosis in adults, and increases the risk of infections and depression.

However, it was this knowledge of the importance of vitamin D that caused a real boom in self-medication. People began to take high doses of this vitamin without supervision, without consulting doctors or checking its levels in the blood. The results were immediate: medical practice began to register an increasing number of cases of hypervitaminosis D – a condition that doctors consider one of the most insidious forms of poisoning.

Hypervitaminosis D, a dangerous condition of vitamin D overdose, is in abundance. Photo: Shutterstock

Destruction mechanism

Unlike water-soluble vitamins B or C, which are simply excreted in the urine when in excess, vitamin D accumulates in fatty tissue and the liver. This fat-soluble compound can remain in the body for months, gradually reaching toxic levels. When vitamin D levels become excessive, it triggers uncontrolled absorption of calcium from the intestines.

Excess calcium in the blood – a condition called hypercalcemia – sets off a chain of destructive processes. Calcium begins to accumulate in places where it shouldn’t: in the walls of blood vessels, kidneys, heart and lungs. Soft tissues literally harden, losing their functionality. The kidneys, trying to eliminate excess calcium, become overloaded and may fail. The cardiovascular system suffers from arterial calcification, which dramatically increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Symptoms that indicate you have overdosed on vitamin D

The insidious nature of hypervitaminosis D is that its symptoms remain nonspecific for a long time. A person may experience:

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