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Dublin s Q102 By Eamonn Falvey Experts say people should be encouraged to use vitamin D supplements in order to help protect them against the severity of Covid 19 and other illnesses.
A report by the Dail s Health Committee recommends a public awareness campaign and other steps to encourage the uptake of the supplement.
Dr Daniel McCartney s a member of the Covid-D Consortium which backs the move.
He says studies show the importance of vitamin D in tackling the coronavirus:
); I remember the first wave, ICU was suddenly full of 10 people with very low Vitamin D levels
An Oireachtas Committee is recommending that a campaign be launched to promote Vitamin D supplements. By Rónán Duffy Wednesday 7 Apr 2021, 12:52 PM 2 hours ago 20,608 Views 51 Comments
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AN OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE has heard that Vitamin D deficiency was “really sticking out” in terms of looking at those who have suffered severe illness from Covid-19 in Ireland.
A report from the Oireachtas Health Committee has made a number of recommendations about Vitamin D, including recommending daily Vitamin D supplements.
The committee has been looking Vitamin D deficiency in Ireland and whether improved levels of the vitamin would help in the battle against Covid-19.
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That daily Vitamin D supplementation of 20-25µg/day should be recommended to the entire adult population as a public health measure, with higher doses recommended for vulnerable groups under medical supervision.
That a public health policy, which promotes better knowledge of the benefits of Vitamin D, and which encourages Vitamin D supplementation, should be developed in time for consideration in Budget 2022.
That reducing the cost of Vitamin D supplementation, in order to promote its uptake, should be considered, through the reduction or indeed the elimination of the current VAT rate; and
That specific measures need to be put in place for vulnerable groups, and for frontline and healthcare workers, so that Vitamin D supplementation is administered on an opt-out basis, and for the duration of this pandemic, people should be offered Vitamin D supplements when presenting at Covid-19 test centres.
Consortium presses for policy change on vitamin D
A TILDA study had shown that 60 per cent of middle-aged and older adults in Ireland have insufficient vitamin D, the Oireachtas Health Committee heard last week, writes
Terence Cosgrave
Despite dozens of studies demonstrating the effectiveness of vitamin D in reducing intensive care (ICU) admission rates, ventilation and death from Covid-19, there has been no policy change to advance this extremely low-risk, cheap and potentially highly effective intervention to mitigate the pandemic crisis, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health was told by members of the Covit-D consortium last Tuesday (February 23).
Dr Daniel McCartney, Director of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, TU Dublin, said in his opening statement there was now an extensive body of international research showing the protective role of vitamin D against Covid-19, for example, large background studies pooling data from dozens of individual trials have described an approxi