VITAMIN D INJECTION 

 

Vitamin D plays an important role in the functioning of the body. It is an essential vitamin although it is classified as a vitamin it is actually a hormone and is a key regulatory for phosphate, calcium and bone metabolism. 

 

Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin as sunlight plays a key role in activating Vitamin D. In the winter, where there is less sunshine we can become Vitamin D deficient, or insufficient. Leading to muscle weakness, tiredness and bone pain. In extreme cases Vitamin D can lead to rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults, where the bones are brittle and painful.  Vitamin D deficiency has also been linked with weight gain, depression, and fatigue. It also plays an important role in developing immune defences against colds, flu, viruses and bacteria.

 

Sources of Vitamin D

The best remedy for Vitamin D is exposure to sunshine, it is advisable to wear sun protection to avoid sun damage and sunburn. Vitamin D is found in oily fish, red meat, eggs and certain breakfast cereals and formula milk has added Vitamin D.

 

Those At Higher Risk of Vitamin D Deficiency?

• The elderly (the skin becomes thinner as people age) reducing the ability to make Vitamin D, those in nursing or residential homes

• People with darker skin (people with dark skin do not absorb Vitamin D the same as paler skin people) for example, African, African-Caribbean, or Asian background

• People who spend more time inside, and who cover their bodies for example Muslim, Jewish women and religious group who cover their bodies

• Pregnant or breast feeding women

• Crohn’s disease, coeliac disease, or kidney disease 

• Medications such as Carbamazepine, Phenytoin, Primidone

• Vegan, plant based or vegetarian diets.

 

Vitamin D Benefits

• Regulating calcium metabolism

• Regulating calcification of the bones

• Regulating the body’s use of phosphorus (a mineral important for bone structure)

• Increasing the absorption of calcium from the gut

• Decreased excretion from the kidneys

• Assists with depositing mineral to the teeth

• Maintains healthy blood levels of calcium and phosphorus 

• Helps maintain nervous system, heart function and normal blood clotting

 

Can I have Vitamin D injections if I am not deficient?

Vitamin D injection is given to people who are deficient. A recent blood test report will be requested? The dose of Vitamin D that  is 300,000 IU.

 

Talk to your doctor or nurse before being given vitamin D:

• If you have heart disease, problems with your kidneys or with your circulation

• If you have kidney stones

• If you have low levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH)

• If you already have high levels of vitamin D in your blood or if you are especially sensitive to vitamin D.

It is important that you are taking enough calcium in your diet so that your body can respond properly to your medicine.

 

COST OF Vitamin D Injection     £40.00 per Injection 

 

I am a fully qualified and experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner who is registered with the NMC, for over 40 years.  I am also an independent Nurse prescriber therefore I can prescribe the injections that I am providing. They are all legal, from a reputable pharmacy in the UK. Unfortunately they are some fake company who do not offer the safe and legal Vitamin D injection.