Adverse Health Effects of Vitamin D Excess

Medical experts say that an excess of every food is harmful for the human body, even if they are vitamins and minerals that are indispensable for health, in the same way, as much vitamin D is necessary for overall human health, its excess proves to be harmful.

According to medical experts, vitamin D plays an important role in maintaining health, it helps in the growth of muscle cells, strengthens the immune system, prevents bone weakness, lowers stress, maintains heart health, helps in diabetes, eliminates cancer cells and maintains overall health.

Experts say that vitamin D deficiency is a common problem, low vitamin D is a very common health condition and has some painful symptoms, while sometimes people who suffer from vitamin D deficiency start consuming more of it to make up for it.

Medical experts say that when people hear about vitamin D deficiency, instead of consulting their doctor, they start taking vitamin supplements on their own, which leads to ‘vitamin D toxicity’.

The condition of ‘Vitamin D Toxicity’ mainly occurs due to excess amount of Vitamin D in the body.

How is excessive consumption of vitamin D harmful?

Vitamin D levels above 100ng/ml in the blood can be harmful to health.

Too much vitamin D can cause bones to absorb too much calcium, which can lead to problems like muscle aches, mood swings, and gastrointestinal upset.

Like calcium, excess intake of vitamin D also increases the risk of heart attack.

What to do to avoid vitamin D toxicity?

First of all, get a test done with the doctor’s advice to check the level of vitamin D in the body, if the blood level of vitamin D is high, usually the doctor would suggest the use of vitamin D3 supplements as an alternative.

If the amount of vitamin D in the body is high, the treatment is continued for at least three months, it takes about six to twelve months for the vitamin D ratio to normalize.

Complicated health problems arising from vitamin D excess are as follows:

Elevated blood levels:

High doses of vitamin D supplements cause increased levels of vitamin D in the blood, which affects the function of internal organs.

Increased calcium levels:

Vitamin D is important for the body because it also helps absorb calcium from our diet.

Its excess can lead to the development of hypercalcemia, which affects the rate of calcium absorption and causes further discomfort in the body.

Gastrointestinal complaints:

Dangerously high levels of vitamin D also increase calcium levels, which can further affect gut health.

It can cause indigestion, nausea, constipation, abdominal pain, etc.

Impact on mental health:

Depression, mood swings, psychosis or feeling confused are another set of symptoms of vitamin D excess caused by hypercalcemia.

It further affects the mental health, in some cases coma can be caused due to vitamin D excess.

Complaints of kidney pain:

According to experts, too much vitamin D in the body increases the amount of calcium, which invites excessive urination and kidney trouble, ‘calcification’, in which case the kidneys become dehydrated.

Hypercalcemia also narrows the blood vessels of the kidneys, which reduces kidney function.