ECTRIMS: Vitamin D supplements recommended for MS?

• ECTRIMS: Vitamin D supplements recommended for MS?
  Posted by agate on 08 Oct, 2019 14:50
• From Multiple Sclerosis News Today (September 25, 2019)--"ECTRIMS 2019:  Are Vitamin D Supplements Recommended for MS? Experts Weigh In":
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Are Vitamin D Supplements Recommended for MS? Experts Weigh In

  Most agree vitamin D supplements protect against multiple sclerosis onset. The question remains if it does any good for those who already have the disease.

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  Posted by agate on 06 Mar, 2020 20:15
• An issue of the NARCOMS  Now newsletter (vol. 8, no. 4, 2019) reached me today, and it includes a brief article, "Should People with MS Take Vitamin D? How Much and How Often?" summarizing the findings of Drs. Ascherio and Mowry. Excerpt:
  
  
  

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  ...Neurologist Ellen Mowry, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, provided practical advice for the use of vitamin D for people with MS. Dr. Mowry noted that studies have not yet proven whether treatment with vitamin D can lead to a change in disability status in people with MS....
  
  
  How much vitamin D should a person with MS be taking to maintain health? Dr. Ascherio said he advocates a dose of 3,000 IU vitamin D per day. Dr. Mowry usually treats patients with MS who have low serum vitamin D levels to reach a target blood level of 40 to 60 nnmol/L. To  achieve this, she suggests oral daily supplementation at doses ranging between 2,000 and 5,000 IU. Higher doses are not recommended due to risk of toxicity....
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  Posted by agate on 14 Mar, 2020 07:43
• More on the possibility that high levels of vitamin D supplementation might not be good--from ACTRIMS 2020, an abstract of a paper entitled "High-dose vitamin D worsens experimental CNS autoimmune disease by raising T cell-excitatory calcium." The ACTRIMS conference took place February 27-29, 2020.
  
  
  

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