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I think in my post on vitamin D I may have made it sound as if Mark and I are sitting around flagellating ourselves about Bisi\u2019s diagnosis. We\u2019re not.\u00a0 I do think it\u2019s natural when a child gets sick to wonder if you could have done something\u2014anything–to prevent it. But we quickly moved past that. We don\u2019t have time to worry about it, and there\u2019s no point anyway. A lot of what we\u2019re doing now\u2014trying to cook in a healthy, low carb, low sugar way, giving her vitamin D and other supplements to support her lingering pancreatic function, trying to get her to be as active as possible as a way to manage her blood sugar\u2014we see as proactive ways to keep her as healthy as we can.<\/div>\n
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But because vitamin D appears to have some benefit for so many potential conditions, I wanted to pass along some more information\u2014some of it came to me in comments on the vitamin D piece (a\u00a0version<\/a>\u00a0of which was posted on The Atlantic\u2019s Web site); and some just didn\u2019t fit into my initial post.<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0Vitamin D Council<\/a>\u00a0has links to studies about vitamin D\u2019s potential benefits, and also information about how to calculate dosage. Essentially, they recommend that healthy children over a year old should get 1,000 IUs for every 25 pounds of body weight; adolescents and adults, they say, should get at least 5,000 IUs. This is SIGNIFICANTLY\u00a0 higher than the U.S.\u2019s recommended daily allowance. Of course, the sun is the strongest and best source of vitamin D. If you\u2019re fair skinned and go outside in shorts and a t-shirt on a sunny summer day at noon, you can get 10,000 IUs of vitamin D in\u00a0ten minutes<\/em>, according to a\u00a0good article<\/a>\u00a0on the topic in US News. \u00a0This is why some pediatricians are recommending that children spend 15 minutes outside before they get slathered with sunscreen. But, again, you could spend all day outside on a sunny October day in Boston and get no vitamin D, because, as explained in that same article, the \u201csun never gets high enough in the sky for its ultraviolet B rays to penetrate the atmosphere.\u201d<\/div>\n
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If you are giving your child (or yourself) a lot of vitamin D, you should get them tested to make sure you\u2019re not giving them too much. There are two types of tests; but the most accurate marker of vitamin D levels in the blood is the 25-hydroxyvitamin D test.<\/div>\n
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Finally, if you want to know more and veer towards alternative medicine and natural health information, you might be interested in this\u00a0trove of information<\/a>\u00a0on vitamin D.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Bisi\u2019s endocrinologist mentioned that we should give her D3<\/sub>\u00a0(cholecalciferol), rather than D2,<\/sub>since at high doses the latter is less potent. You can get this anywhere; we\u2019ve found a couple of kinds we like at Whole Foods: Kal D-3 2000 IU chewables (we like this one, because she gets her whole requirement with one sugarless, carb-less little cinnamon-flavored pill) and Jarrow Formulas Yum-Yum D-3 gummies (400 IUs per chew; Bisi prefers this one, because it tastes like candy\u2014we prefer not to give her the empty carbs, but don\u2019t always win this battle). With this–as with all things in parenting\u2014we have to choose our battles; and I have a feeling that in managing as complicated a disease as T1D we are going to find that compromising with Bisi where we can is going to be an important and necessary tool.<\/div>\n
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